{"id":408700,"date":"2026-01-15T08:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T08:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/408700\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T08:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T08:39:11","slug":"ristolainen-robertson-teravainen-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/408700\/","title":{"rendered":"Ristolainen, Robertson, Teravainen \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Philadelphia Flyers announced<\/a> tonight that defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen<\/a> would miss their road contest against the Buffalo Sabres due to an upper-body injury. The Flyers have classified his injury timeline as day-to-day. Ristolainen missed the first two months of the season recovering from offseason surgery, but played in all of the Flyers\u2019 games after making his season debut on Dec. 16. He has been the team\u2019s No. 4 defenseman in terms of ice time this season, averaging 20:59 time on ice per game including usage on both sides of special teams.<\/p>\n

Luckily for the Flyers, this new injury to Ristolainen comes as they get Jamie Drysdale<\/a> back from injured reserve. As a result, they were able to plug Drysdale directly into the right side of their lineup, filling the hole left by Ristolainen\u2019s absence. It\u2019s not an exact one-to-one lineup replacement, as head coach Rick Tocchet moved Noah Juulsen<\/a> onto Nick Seeler<\/a>\u2018s pairing, in the spot Ristolainen occupied Monday night against the Lightning. Drysdale played alongside Emil Andrae<\/a>. While Ristolainen has dealt with nagging injury issues over the course of his Flyers tenure, the hope will be that this new absence will be brief. He\u2019s a key member of the team\u2019s defense and his efforts will be necessary for the Flyers to stand the best chance of keeping pace in the hotly contested Eastern Conference playoff race.<\/p>\n

Other injury updates from around the NHL:<\/p>\n

The Toronto Maple Leafs will be without forward Nick Robertson<\/a> on a day-to-day basis as he manages a lower-body injury, per TSN\u2019s Mark Masters<\/a>. Robertson didn\u2019t play yesterday against the Utah Mammoth after appearing to suffer the injury Monday against the Colorado Avalanche. Veteran Calle Jarnkrok<\/a> drew into Toronto\u2019s lineup in Robertson\u2019s place. The 24-year-old, who was the subject of offseason trade speculation, has had a decent season, all things considered, for the Maple Leafs. He\u2019s scored 10 goals and 22 points, just five points shy of his career-high. He\u2019s produced at that clip despite receiving just over twelve minutes of ice time per game.
\nTeuvo Teravainen<\/a>, a key veteran forward for the Chicago Blackhawks, has suffered an upper-body injury and won\u2019t be available to play in the team\u2019s game tomorrow against the Calgary Flames. Per head coach Jeff Blashill, Teravainen is also questionable to play in the team\u2019s game on Saturday as well. The 31-year-old hasn\u2019t produced at quite the same rate as last season, with 21 points in 45 games. He scored 15 goals and 58 points in 2024-25. He\u2019s nonetheless been one of the more reliable Blackhawks forwards, and is tied for fourth in scoring on the team. He\u2019s also a useful forward on the penalty kill, ranking third among Blackhawks forwards in shorthanded time on ice per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Flyers announced tonight that defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen would miss their road contest against the Buffalo Sabres…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[96,5,402,2779,56,4526,4445,31],"class_list":{"0":"post-408700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-chicago-blackhawks","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-injury","11":"tag-nick-robertson","12":"tag-philadelphia-flyers","13":"tag-rasmus-ristolainen","14":"tag-teuvo-teravainen","15":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115898218460096622","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408700","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=408700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}