{"id":878182,"date":"2026-10-11T04:16:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T04:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/878182\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T04:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T04:16:19","slug":"melanson-diagnosed-with-vascular-aneurysm-out-indefinitely-for-kraken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/878182\/","title":{"rendered":"Melanson diagnosed with vascular aneurysm, out indefinitely for Kraken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/jacob-melanson-8482874\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Melanson<\/a> will be out indefinitely for the Kraken because of an aneurysm.<\/p>\n<p>The forward sustained an upper-body injury in a 6-1 win at the Calgary Flames in the team&#8217;s opening game of the season on Oct. 1. On Saturday, it was announced that it had been diagnosed as an anterior mediastinum hematoma with vascular pseudo aneurysm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jacob will continue to be evaluated and monitored closely by the medial staff in Seattle through the healing process for a gradual progression to return to hockey,&#8221; the Kraken said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Melanson, who had one shot on goal in 9:31 of ice time against the Flames, had five points (two goals, three assists) and 32 penalty minutes in 36 games for Seattle last season.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old, who was selected by Seattle in the fifth round (No. 131) of the 2021 NHL Draft, has five points in 38 NHL games over three seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacob Melanson will be out indefinitely for the Kraken because of an aneurysm. The forward sustained an upper-body&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-878182","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\/878182","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=878182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}