{"id":461012,"date":"2023-09-29T00:06:45","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T20:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=461012"},"modified":"2023-09-29T00:07:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T20:07:52","slug":"lightning-goalkeeper-vasilevskiy-out-for-2-months-after-back-surgery","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lightning-goalkeeper-vasilevskiy-out-for-2-months-after-back-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning goalkeeper Vasilevskiy out for 2 months after back surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Lightning goalkeeper Andrei Vasilevskiy will miss the first 2 months of the upcoming NHL season following a back surgery, the team announced.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Andrei Vasilevskiy has had back surgery, and is expected to miss the first two months of the regular season, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KevinWeekes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@KevinWeekes<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9Y3jyg4g5f\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/9Y3jyg4g5f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TSN (@TSN_Sports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSN_Sports\/status\/1707464973545292243?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The injury was sustained during training camp and comes as a shock to the team as it arrives only days before the season kicks in.<\/p>\n<p>General manager Julien BriseBois said Vasilevskiy had a successful microdiscectomy to address a lumbar disk herniation. The recovery could sideline him for 25 or more games.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old is arguably the best goalie in the NHL having won the Vezina trophy in 2019 as the league&#8217;s top netminder along with an MVP trophy in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, the news is a huge setback for the Tampa Bay team, who were relying on their goalie to help their aspiration going into the new season. Vasilevskiy himself admitted that he suffered from a heavy workload following the playoff exit to Toronto, which might have contributed to the injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Lightning goalkeeper Andrei Vasilevskiy will miss the first 2 months of the upcoming NHL season following a back surgery, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":461015,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17164],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[21558,18408],"acf":{"announce":"The Tampa Bay man has undergone a surgery and will be out for a considerable time","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\/461012"}],"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=461012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/461012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461014,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/461012\/revisions\/461014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461012"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=461012"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=461012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}