{"id":855951,"date":"2026-09-21T23:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T23:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/855951\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T23:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T23:04:09","slug":"nhl-status-report-ovechkin-dealing-with-injury-may-miss-preseason-for-capitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/855951\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Status Report: Ovechkin dealing with injury, may miss preseason for Capitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas Stars<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/matt-duchene-8475168\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Duchene<\/a> is not yet skating, but is expected to do so\u00a0this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;ll start skating here either tomorrow or the next day, for sure,&#8221; Stars coach Gulutzan said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Gulutzan said last week that the forward is not injured but was provided maintenance days as a precaution. Duchene was limited to 57 games last season due to injuries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He came in great shape, skated the last, basically two weeks with the guys as they skated (before training camp), but just wanted to be more precautionary here for the next two days,&#8221;\u00a0Gulutzan said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/colin-blackwell-8476278\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colin Blackwell<\/a> sustained a lower-body injury\u00a0 at practice Saturday and will not play in Dallas&#8217; preseason game against the St. Louis Blues on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s going to be a long time, so just a few days, hopefully,&#8221; Gulutzan said. &#8220;That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re hoping for right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Stars Matt Duchene is not yet skating, but is expected to do so\u00a0this week. &#8220;He&#8217;ll start skating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":855952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-855951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}