{"id":273549,"date":"2025-10-03T03:38:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T03:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/273549\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T03:38:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T03:38:14","slug":"lightnings-erik-cernak-misses-third-period-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/273549\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning&#8217;s Erik Cernak: Misses third period Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1759453511_676_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nhl\/teams\/TB\/tampa-bay-lightning\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/394.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nhl\/players\/2178853\/cernak\/fantasy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cernak<\/a> (undisclosed) did not play in the third period of Thursday&#8217;s preseason game versus the Panthers, <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nhl\/teams\/TB\/tampa-bay-lightning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lightning<\/a> reporter Gabby Shirley reports.<\/p>\n<p>Cernak was in and out of the game a couple of times after taking some knocks. There was no update on his status after the contest, but it&#8217;s possible the Lightning are just taking the proper precautions to have him healthy for the start of the regular season next Thursday versus the Senators.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cernak (undisclosed) did not play in the third period of Thursday&#8217;s preseason game versus the Panthers, Lightning reporter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":270407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[141716,3000,1318,1317,1315,1316,62,3106,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-273549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-erik-cernak","9":"tag-fantasy-hockey","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-football","13":"tag-ncaafootball","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115308154614097141","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}