{"id":542036,"date":"2026-04-05T12:59:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T12:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/542036\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T12:59:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T12:59:31","slug":"josh-mahura-news-firmly-planted-in-press-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/542036\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Mahura News: Firmly planted in press box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gn-news__notes\">Mahura has played just once in 19 games since the Olympic break after sitting out Saturday&#8217;s 4-2 loss to the Blackhawks.<\/p>\n<p>The Kraken have even tried seven defensemen in the lineup recently, but Mahura has remained a scratch while Cale Fleury picks up the extra minutes. Mahura is under contract for 2026-27, so he&#8217;s likely looking at another year of a part-time role. He&#8217;s contributed just three points, 13 shots on net, 22 hits, 34 blocked shots and a plus-8 rating over 21 appearances on the year, which has seen the Kraken avoid an injury crisis on the blue line.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"gn-subscribe-cta__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rotowire.com\/images\/rebrand-assets\/site-logo\/logo_symbol.svg\" alt=\"RotoWire\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Win Your League With RotoWire!<\/p>\n<p>Unlock our premium fantasy hockey tools<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a class=\"gn-subscribe-cta__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rotowire.com\/subscribe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign Up Now<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mahura has played just once in 19 games since the Olympic break after sitting out Saturday&#8217;s 4-2 loss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[5,4188,55615,4,2686,234,5318],"class_list":{"0":"post-542036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-kraken","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-kraken","10":"tag-minor-league-stats","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-seattle","13":"tag-seattle-kraken","14":"tag-seattlekraken"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116352227047394029","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542036","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=542036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}