{"id":477546,"date":"2026-02-28T19:21:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T19:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/477546\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T19:21:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T19:21:58","slug":"los-angeles-kings-andrei-kuzmenko-out-week-to-week-after-meniscus-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/477546\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Kings\u2019 Andrei Kuzmenko out week-to-week after meniscus surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/los-angeles-kings\/26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/los-angeles-kings\/26\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Kings<\/a> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/andrei-kuzmenko\/8483808\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/andrei-kuzmenko\/8483808\" target=\"_blank\">Andrei Kuzmenko<\/a> is listed as week-to-week after undergoing successful surgery to repair a torn meniscus, the team announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 30-year-old Russian didn\u2019t play Thursday against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/edmonton-oilers\/22\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/edmonton-oilers\/22\" target=\"_blank\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> after picking up two assists against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vegas-golden-knights\/54\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vegas-golden-knights\/54\" target=\"_blank\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> in the team\u2019s first game back following the Olympic break. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kuzmenko has tallied 13 goals and 12 assists over 52 games with the Kings in 2025-26, his first full season with the franchise. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kuzmenko is making $4.3 million this season and is scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent this summer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a corresponding move, defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/angus-booth\/8483699\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/angus-booth\/8483699\" target=\"_blank\">Angus Booth<\/a> has been recalled from the American Hockey League. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Los Angeles is 23-21-14 on the season, three points behind the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/seattle-kraken\/55\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/seattle-kraken\/55\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Kraken<\/a> for the second and final Wild Card spot in the Western Conference. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Kings forward Andrei Kuzmenko is listed as week-to-week after undergoing successful surgery to repair a torn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5126],"tags":[57458,4759,5,186,1760,240,5303,793,145,32840,5304,5302,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-477546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-kings","8":"tag-andrei-kuzmenko-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8483808","9":"tag-apple-news","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-kings","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-la-kings","14":"tag-lakings","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-kings","17":"tag-los-angeles-kings-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-26","18":"tag-losangeles","19":"tag-losangeleskings","20":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116149888195960999","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477546","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=477546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}