{"id":408296,"date":"2026-01-15T02:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T02:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/408296\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T02:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T02:40:11","slug":"flyers-rasmus-ristolainen-out-vs-buffalo-status-for-thursday-in-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/408296\/","title":{"rendered":"Flyers Rasmus Ristolainen Out vs. Buffalo, Status for Thursday in Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One defenseman gets healthy, another one goes down for the Philadelphia Flyers.<\/p>\n<p>Right when the team\u2019s blueline was starting to get healthy with the return of Jamie Drysdale, the team announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/flyers\/player\/rasmus-ristolainen-8477499\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">defenseman<\/a> Rasmus Ristolainen is out for the matchup vs. the Buffalo Sabres with an upper-body injury. <\/p>\n<p>Ristolainen is considered to be day-to-day. <\/p>\n<p>It is unclear what happened to Ristolainen. He skated at morning skate on the team\u2019s top pair, playing to the right of Travis Sanheim. The defenseman was a late scratch, as the Finnish blueliner did not come out for warmups. <\/p>\n<p>Since returning from his tricep injury in December, the defenseman has 3 assists and a -3 rating in 13 games. His physical presence has been felt on the ice. <\/p>\n<p>Ristolainen is also one of the Flyers\u2019 four Olympians, being named to the Finnish team on New Year\u2019s Eve. <\/p>\n<p>What happened to the Flyers defenseman remains unclear. All that is known is that he is out and is considered to be day-to-day. <\/p>\n<p>An update will be provided when one becomes available.  <\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/phillyhockeynow.com\/2026\/01\/14\/flyers-officially-activate-jamie-drysdale-off-injured-reserve\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Flyers Officially Activate Jamie Drysdale off Injured Reserve<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One defenseman gets healthy, another one goes down for the Philadelphia Flyers. Right when the team\u2019s blueline was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5112],"tags":[58,1468,41572,5,4,1467,56,5205,4526,51438],"class_list":["post-408296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-philadelphia-flyers","tag-featured","tag-flyers","tag-flyers-injury","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-flyers","tag-philadelphiaflyers","tag-rasmus-ristolainen","tag-rasmus-ristolainen-injury"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115896806695071751","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408296","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=408296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}