{"id":438380,"date":"2026-01-31T18:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T18:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/438380\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T18:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T18:17:11","slug":"tampa-bay-lightning-victor-hedman-likely-to-return-for-stadium-series-vs-boston-bruins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/438380\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Lightning Victor Hedman likely to return for Stadium Series vs. Boston Bruins"},"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> head coach Jon Cooper told reporters Saturday that captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/victor-hedman\/8475167\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/victor-hedman\/8475167\" target=\"_blank\">Victor Hedman<\/a> is likely to play in Sunday\u2019s Stadium Series matchup against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/boston-bruins\/6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/boston-bruins\/6\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Bruins<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The two teams will be facing off at Raymond James Stadium, home of the NFL\u2019s Buccaneers, in an outdoor game Sunday. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hedman likely to play tomorrow, Cooper says<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joe Smith (@JoeSmithNHL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeSmithNHL\/status\/2017654441772515330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 31, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hedman has not played since Dec. 9 after undergoing elbow surgery. The defenceman also missed nearly a month earlier in the season with a separate injury, returned for three games and then underwent the surgery. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 35-year-old has 12 assists in 18 games this season while averaging 21:05 of ice time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hedman will be suiting up for Team Sweden at the Olympics for the first time in Milan in February. He was one of the first six players named to the roster. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Internationally, he helped Sweden win gold at the 2017 IIHF World Championships and has represented his country at the U18s, World Juniors, World Cup of Hockey and 4 Nations Face-off. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Lightning head coach Jon Cooper told reporters Saturday that captain Victor Hedman is likely to play&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5105],"tags":[4759,5,189,4,540,92,33549,5168,5167,46957],"class_list":{"0":"post-438380","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-nhl","12":"tag-tampa-bay","13":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","14":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-14","15":"tag-tampabay","16":"tag-tampabaylightning","17":"tag-victor-hedman-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8475167"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115991088086547021","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438380","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=438380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}