{"id":436766,"date":"2026-01-30T19:07:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/436766\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T19:07:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:07:18","slug":"bolts-vinik-not-attending-stadium-series-game-after-snowmobiling-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/436766\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolts&#8217; Vinik not attending Stadium Series game after snowmobiling accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The Tampa Bay Lightning announced Jeff Vinik, the team&#8217;s chairman and governor, is unable to attend the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay28.com\/sports\/hockey\/lightning\/stadium-series\/nhl-stadium-series-everything-you-need-to-know-for-2026-stadium-series-in-tampa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stadium Series game <\/a>on Sunday due to an injury.<\/p>\n<p>The team said Vinik was involved in a snowmobiling accident resulting in a major leg fracture while he was on a recent trip with his children.<\/p>\n<p>The team announced his absence on Friday morning, days before the 2026 Navy Federal Credit Union NHL Stadium Series outdoor game between the Bolts and the Boston Bruins.<\/p>\n<p>The Lightning released the following post:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As an organization, we are deeply thankful for his resilience and dedication, and although we are heartbroken he will miss this historic moment for the Tampa Bay Lightning, a milestone he tirelessly worked to bring to our community, we know he will be watching and taking immense pride in what Team Tampa Bay has accomplished.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vinik purchased the Lightning in 2010 and sold a portion of the team to a new investment group in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The team said Vinik has full control of operations until 2027 and acts as the team\u2019s governor.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ADAM.WALSER.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Terri Schiavo&#8217;s family seeks to unseal guardianship records 20 years after her death<\/p>\n<p>More than twenty years after Terri Schiavo&#8217;s death sparked a national right-to-life debate, her family returned to court Tuesday seeking to unseal records from her guardianship case.<\/p>\n<p>Terri Schiavo&#8217;s family seeks to unseal guardianship records 20 years after her death<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The Tampa Bay Lightning announced Jeff Vinik, the team&#8217;s chairman and governor, is unable to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5105],"tags":[7136,7137,5,53601,189,4,43,540,32946,92,7138,5168,5167,7139,7140],"class_list":{"0":"post-436766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-lightning","8":"tag-abc-action-news","9":"tag-abc-action-news-sports","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-jerff-vinik","12":"tag-lightning","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-tampa-bay","16":"tag-tampa-bay-28","17":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","18":"tag-tampa-bay-sports","19":"tag-tampabay","20":"tag-tampabaylightning","21":"tag-wfts","22":"tag-wfts-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115985624243607266","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436766","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=436766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}