{"id":494241,"date":"2026-03-09T05:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T05:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/494241\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T05:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T05:34:14","slug":"john-gibson-gets-encouraging-injury-update-after-devils-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/494241\/","title":{"rendered":"John Gibson gets encouraging injury update after Devils win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nhl\/detroit-red-wings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Red Wings<\/a> picked up a massive win on the road Sunday night. <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nhl\/new-jersey-devils\/devils-jack-hughes-pain-awkward-collision-red-wings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit kicked off a four-game road trip against the New Jersey Devils<\/a>. There were some tense moments, but in the end, John Gibson and Cam Talbot combined for a 31-save shutout victory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nhl\/detroit-red-wings\/red-wings-john-gibson-exits-devils-clash-with-potential-injury\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Overshadowing the game a bit was Gibson&#8217;s injury status<\/a>. He left Sunday&#8217;s win at the end of the second period and did not return. He took a hit near the end of the second, but was able to finish the period. After the win, head coach Todd McLellan <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mikemorrealeNHL\/status\/2030834186286702959\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">provided an update<\/a> on the status of his star goaltender.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe got hit in a bad spot and didn&#8217;t feel good after that happened. So he should be fine; I would think,\u201d the Red Wings bench boss said, via NHL.com&#8217;s Mike Morreale.<\/p>\n<p>Gibson has been one of the best goaltenders in the league since the start of December. After the win, the 32-year-old netminder has a save percentage of .925 since the beginning of December. Overall, he ranks 11th in the NHL with a 3.4 WAR among goaltenders, according to Evolving Hockey.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Wings are continuing their push for the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Detroit traded for Justin Faulk before the deadline and saw him make his debut on Sunday. With Sunday&#8217;s win, Detroit is third in the Atlantic Division on 79 points. They trail the first-place Buffalo Sabres by five points.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit has not experienced playoff hockey in a decade. They are on the inside track of returning to the postseason, though. And it appears as if their star goaltender has avoided a serious injury, giving him the chance to continue leading the way on the ice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Red Wings picked up a massive win on the road Sunday night. Detroit kicked off a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5101],"tags":[599,93,5137,5,12641,4,7901,3358,5138],"class_list":{"0":"post-494241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-red-wings","8":"tag-detroit","9":"tag-detroit-red-wings","10":"tag-detroitredwings","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-john-gibson","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-nhl-injury","15":"tag-red-wings","16":"tag-redwings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116197593430954354","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494241","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=494241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}