{"id":411979,"date":"2023-02-09T12:23:57","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T17:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=411979"},"modified":"2023-02-09T12:26:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T17:26:39","slug":"flames-andersson-to-miss-first-game-in-more-than-four-years","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/flames-andersson-to-miss-first-game-in-more-than-four-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary Flames&#8217; Andersson to miss first game in more than four years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Calgary Flames defenseman Rasmus Andersson will miss his first game in more than four years (4 years, 2 months and 29 days) after being struck by a vehicle while riding a scooter on Wednesday. the NHL club announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Flames?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Flames<\/a> GM Brad Treliving is meeting with the media in Detroit to go over Rasmus Andersson&#39;s accident: &quot;He was going through a crosswalk. The good news &#8211; and the most important thing &#8211; is that Ras is doing well. He was transported by ambulance to Detroit Receiving Hospital.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Calgary Flames (@NHLFlames) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLFlames\/status\/1623717886027264000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was going through a crosswalk,&#8221; the Flames&#8217; general manager Brad Treliving told reporters. &#8220;The good news &#8211; and the most important thing &#8211; is that Ras is doing well. He was transported by ambulance to Detroit Receiving Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He won&#8217;t play tonight and we&#8217;ll take this real slow &#8230; Not anything that we&#8217;re overly concerned about. But he got hit, so we&#8217;re going to see how things go over the next 24 hours and go from there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want any speculation out there. There was no alcohol involved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old the Swedish iron man last missed a contest on Nov. 11, 2018, when the Flames played on the road against the San Jose Sharks.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Andersson has laced up in a staggering 350 consecutive games, including 323 regular season tilts and 27 playoff contests.<\/p>\n<p>He is only about one-third of the way to the NHL&#8217;s all-time record for consecutive regular games played (1,034 and counting), which Phil Kessel of the Vegas Golden Knights currently holds.<\/p>\n<p>Kessel broke Keith Yandle&#8217;s record of 989 straight games in October 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Andersson, who leads the team with four game-winning goals this season, is second on the Flames in assists (27) and fourth in points (34), is one of just five active players with a current streak of at least 300 straight regular-season contests.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fs_ad_article_inline_2\" class=\"fs_ad lazyloaded\" data-placement-type-name=\"dynamic_article_2\" data-ad-unit-id=\"\/63317524\/yardbarker\/articles\/article_dynamic_2\" data-google-query-id=\"CJmauYv4iP0CFX3lEQgd5GkLSw\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Calgary Flames defenseman Rasmus Andersson will miss his first game in more than four years (4 years, 2 months and 29 days) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":411980,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16990,17389,16958],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The Swedish defenseman was struck by a vehicle while riding a scooter","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/411979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/411979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411979"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=411979"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=411979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}