{"id":4044,"date":"2025-04-16T10:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T14:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"gen\/sin-categoria\/letang-penguins-legend-closes-his-heart-and-his-season-whats-next-for-the-star-defenseman\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T10:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T14:23:10","slug":"letang-penguins-legend-closes-his-heart-and-his-season-whats-next-for-the-star-defenseman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nhl\/letang-penguins-legend-closes-his-heart-and-his-season-whats-next-for-the-star-defenseman\/","title":{"rendered":"Letang, Penguins Legend, Closes His Heart and His Season: What&#8217;s Next for the Star Defenseman?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kris Letang Closes the Season Due to Health Problems<\/h2>\n\n\nPITTSBURGH &#8211; Penguins defenseman Kris Letang has ended his season. The 19-year veteran will not participate in Pittsburgh&#8217;s final game against Washington on Thursday night, after undergoing a procedure to close a small hole in his heart.\n\n\n<p>The announcement was made by the Penguins on Wednesday. Letang did not participate in the team&#8217;s practice on Tuesday due to a medical appointment, according to coach Mike Sullivan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Letang, a three-time Stanley Cup champion, has had health problems in the past related to a hole in his heart, including episodes of strokes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The team reported that Letang is expected to make a full recovery within four to six weeks. Pittsburgh was eliminated from playoff contention earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Letang, who is under contract through the 2027-28 season, recorded nine goals and 21 assists in 74 games for Pittsburgh this year. This is his lowest point total in a full season since 2009-10. The 37-year-old also averaged the most ice time on the team, with 23:32 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kris Letang Closes the Season Due to Health Problems PITTSBURGH &#8211; Penguins defenseman Kris Letang has ended his season. The 19-year veteran will not participate in Pittsburgh&#8217;s final game against Washington on Thursday night, after undergoing a procedure to close a small hole in his heart. The announcement was made by the Penguins on Wednesday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[710,290,711,712],"class_list":{"0":"post-4044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-heart","9":"tag-injury","10":"tag-kris-letang","11":"tag-penguins"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}