{"id":471973,"date":"2026-02-25T23:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/471973\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T23:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:35:12","slug":"brayden-point-returns-to-lightning-lineup-vs-toronto-maple-leafs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/471973\/","title":{"rendered":"Brayden Point Returns to Lightning Lineup vs. Toronto Maple Leafs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lightning will get a boost in their first game back from the Olympic break, as top center Brayden Point returns to the lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Point has missed the last 11 games after suffering a lower-body injury on Jan. 12 against the Philadelphia Flyers \u2014 an injury that also kept him off Canada\u2019s Olympic roster.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Before the injury, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/lightning\/player\/brayden-point-8478010\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Point;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Point<\/a> had 11 goals and 19 assists in 36 games, and Tampa Bay will be counting on his return as the condensed schedule gets underway.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Cirelli, a full participant in Wednesday\u2019s practice, is hopeful to return Saturday when the Lightning host the Sabres at Benchmark International Arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lightning will get a boost in their first game back from the Olympic break, as top center&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5106],"tags":[397,1332,5,189,20,5172,4,30278,15349,56,1108,66,31,5171],"class_list":["post-471973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto-maple-leafs","tag-anthony-cirelli","tag-brayden-point","tag-hockey","tag-lightning","tag-maple-leafs","tag-mapleleafs","tag-nhl","tag-olympic-break","tag-olympic-roster","tag-philadelphia-flyers","tag-sabres","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-maple-leafs","tag-torontomapleleafs"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116133896429558659","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471973","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=471973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}