{"id":408590,"date":"2026-01-15T06:47:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/408590\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T06:47:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:47:51","slug":"tampa-bay-lightnings-brayden-point-exits-game-with-apparent-lower-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/408590\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Lightning\u2019s Brayden Point exits game with apparent lower-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/tampa-bay-lightning\/14\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/tampa-bay-lightning\/14\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/brayden-point\/8478010\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/brayden-point\/8478010\" target=\"_blank\">Brayden Point<\/a> left his team\u2019s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/philadelphia-flyers\/4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/philadelphia-flyers\/4\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> with an apparent lower-body injury on Monday night and did not return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The injury occurred early in the second period when Point scored off a rebound in front of the Flyers\u2019 net to make the game 3-0.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In the process, Point\u2019s right leg got tangled with Flyers defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/cam-york\/8481546\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/cam-york\/8481546\" target=\"_blank\">Cam York<\/a> and the 5-foot-11 centre immediately grabbed his knee in pain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Point needed help getting off the ice and couldn\u2019t put pressure on his right leg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI think we all saw [the injury], so let\u2019s see,\u201d Lightning head coach Jon Cooper said after his team\u2019s 5-1 win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cooper added that Point will travel with the team when they take on the Penguins in Pittsburgh on Tuesday but his status for the game is uncertain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Calgary native was one of Canada\u2019s first six roster players announced for the 2026 Winter Olympics, slated to begin at the beginning of February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Point has 10 goals and 29 points in 36 games with the Lightning this season. He had five goals and 11 points in his last eight games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The tough part for Pointer is his game head really turned the corner and it seemed he was scoring every night for us,&#8221; said Cooper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Tampa Bay sat in second place in the Atlantic Division with a 27-13-3 record entering Monday\u2019s action and is one point behind the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/detroit-red-wings\/17\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/detroit-red-wings\/17\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Red Wings<\/a> for the division lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Lightning are in the midst of a five-game road trip and will take on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/pittsburgh-penguins\/5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/pittsburgh-penguins\/5\" target=\"_blank\">Penguins<\/a> on Tuesday before travelling to St. Louis to take on the Blues on Friday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Lightning forward Brayden Point left his team\u2019s game against the Philadelphia Flyers with an apparent lower-body&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5105],"tags":[4759,51130,5,189,4,540,92,33549,5168,5167],"class_list":{"0":"post-408590","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-brayden-point-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8478010","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-lightning","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-tampa-bay","14":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","15":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-14","16":"tag-tampabay","17":"tag-tampabaylightning"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115897781672499800","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408590","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=408590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}