{"id":466862,"date":"2025-04-16T10:34:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T14:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=466862"},"modified":"2025-04-16T10:34:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T14:34:27","slug":"pittsburgh-penguins-defenceman-undergoes-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/04\/16\/pittsburgh-penguins-defenceman-undergoes-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins Defenceman Undergoes Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Penguins defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/letankr01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-04-16_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kris Letang<\/a> has undergone surgery according to President of Hockey Operations Kyle Dubas.<\/p>\n<h2>Letang Undergoes Surgery<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Penguins defenseman Kris Letang underwent successful surgery to close a patent foramen ovale (PFO, a small hole in the heart).<\/p>\n<p>The expected recovery time is four to six weeks.<a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OBIHf6RlSs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/OBIHf6RlSs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pittsburgh Penguins (@penguins) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/penguins\/status\/1912491259622469954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The surgery was a success. As you can see above, the reason for the surgery was to close a small hole in Letang&#8217;s heart. While not a complicated procedure, anything involving the heart is a serious operation in general. This is especially true considering <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/11\/30\/kris-letang-out-indefinitely-after-suffering-stroke\/\" target=\"_self\">Letang suffered a stroke in 2022<\/a>. Thankfully, the surgery was a success, and Letang&#8217;s recovery time is set at 4-6 weeks. As a result, Letang should recover in plenty of time for training camp in September.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second time in less than a year in which <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/05\/15\/pittsburgh-penguins-defenceman-kris-letang-is-having-offseason-surgery\/\" target=\"_self\">Letang has undergone surgery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Letang&#8217;s 2024-25 Season<\/h3>\n<p>Letang played in 74 games for the Penguins this season. The defenceman scored nine goals and recorded 21 assists. In 19-year NHL career, Letang has scored 175 goals and has recorded 597 assists. Furthermore, Letang has won the Stanley Cup three times. In 2016, Letang scored the Cup-winning goal for the Pens.<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins conclude their 2024-25 season on Thursday. After that, the organization will enter an important summer as the Pens look to find a way to return to the Stanley Cup Playoffs in the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo: Charles LeClaire- Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Penguins defenceman Kris Letang has undergone surgery according to President of Hockey Operations Kyle Dubas. Letang Undergoes Surgery Penguins defenseman Kris Letang underwent successful surgery to close a patent foramen ovale (PFO, a small hole in the heart). The expected recovery time is four to six weeks.https:\/\/t.co\/OBIHf6RlSs \u2014 Pittsburgh Penguins (@penguins) April 16, 2025 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3464,"featured_media":466866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,4547,4548,12],"tags":[259],"class_list":["post-466862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-hockey","category-nhl","category-penguins","tag-kris-letang"],"modified_by":"Andrew Willis","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466869,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466862\/revisions\/466869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}