{"id":473512,"date":"2023-12-19T20:05:56","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T00:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=473512"},"modified":"2023-12-19T20:05:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T00:05:56","slug":"vancouver-to-scratch-kuzmenko-again-against-predators","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/vancouver-to-scratch-kuzmenko-again-against-predators\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver to scratch Kuzmenko again against Predators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver Canucks player Andrei Kuzmenko will be a healthy scratch for today\u2019s match vs. the Nashville Predators, manager Rick Tocchet shared.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It looks like Andrei Kuzmenko might be a healthy scratch in Nashville tonight per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/harmandayal2?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@harmandayal2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wQb71c1WP4\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/wQb71c1WP4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CanucksArmy (@CanucksArmy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CanucksArmy\/status\/1737175288155640283?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The head coach added he would reassess his lineup decisions ahead of Thursday&#8217;s clash vs. the Dallas Stars.<\/p>\n<p>The forward was scratched for 2 straight matches in November, with the manager calling for more output from Andrei.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kuzmenko got to get his style a little bit more sharpened up,&#8221; the Canucks boss shared with the media in the past months. &#8220;It&#8217;s not about last season, it&#8217;s about this season for us. And he&#8217;s a guy that needed a reset.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The forward has 6 goals and 17 points in 29 matches this campaign. However, Kuzmenko&#8217;s time on the ice dropped to just over 11 minutes in his team\u2019s 4-3 victory against the Chicago Blackhawks during the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Andrei inked a 2-year, 11-million-dollar deal with Vancouver after notching 39 goals and 74 points in 81 matches with the Canadian NHL franchise in his debut campaign in the league last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver Canucks player Andrei Kuzmenko will be a healthy scratch for today\u2019s match vs. the Nashville Predators, manager Rick Tocchet shared. It looks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":473513,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16959,17844,16850],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[22402,19902,6811],"acf":{"announce":"The Canucks will scratch its forward.","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\/473512"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473515,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473512\/revisions\/473515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473512"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=473512"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=473512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}