{"id":385637,"date":"2026-01-01T23:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T23:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/385637\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T23:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T23:40:11","slug":"darcy-kuemper-returns-for-los-angeles-kings-against-tampa-bay-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/385637\/","title":{"rendered":"Darcy Kuemper returns for Los Angeles Kings against Tampa Bay Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Goaltender Darcy Kuemper made his return to the lineup for the Los Angeles Kings, getting the start after missing over two weeks due to an injury suffered in December.<\/p>\n

Kuemper was placed on Injured Reserve on Dec. 16 after he was forced out of a game the day prior against the Dallas Stars. Kuemper suffered an injury when he was hit by Stars forward Miiko Rantanen.<\/p>\n

The 35-year-old Kuemper is 10-6-6 with a 2.19 goals-against average and a .917 save percentage in another standout season for the Kings, who reacquired him in a trade in June 2024.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Kuemper was one of three goaltenders selected to be on Team Canada\u2019s roster for the Milano-Cortina Olympics in February, alongside Jordan Binnington of the St. Louis Blues and Logan Thompson of the Washington Capitals.<\/p>\n

This news coincides with a potential injury to a fellow selection to Canada\u2019s Olympic roster on Thursday, as New York Islanders forward Bo Horvat departed their game<\/a> after suffering an apparent injury.<\/p>\n

Kuemper backstopped the Colorado Avalanche to a Stanley Cup title in 2022, and he was a Vezina Trophy finalist for the first time last season after leading the Kings into the playoffs.<\/p>\n

The Kings enter this game against the Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday having won just one of their past four games. They beat the Lightning 2-1 on Dec. 18 in Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Goaltender Darcy Kuemper made his return to the lineup for the Los Angeles Kings, getting the start after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5105],"tags":[4759,5,189,32840,4,540,92,5168,5167],"class_list":{"0":"post-385637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-lightning","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-lightning","11":"tag-los-angeles-kings-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-26","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-tampa-bay","14":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","15":"tag-tampabay","16":"tag-tampabaylightning"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115822488832857547","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}