{"id":415481,"date":"2026-01-19T05:35:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T05:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/415481\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T05:35:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T05:35:23","slug":"philadelphia-flyers-place-rodrigo-abols-on-ir-recall-lane-pederson-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/415481\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Flyers Place Rodrigo Abols On IR, Recall Lane Pederson \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Philadelphia Flyers announced today<\/a> that center Rodrigo Abols<\/a> has been placed on injured reserve with a lower-body injury. In a corresponding move, the club recalled forward Lane Pederson<\/a> from their AHL affiliate, the Lehigh Valley Phantoms.<\/p>\n

Abols suffered a lower-body injury against the New York Rangers on Jan. 17, and will now miss at least a week as a result of his IR placement. He was centering the Flyers\u2019 fourth line in between Garnet Hathaway<\/a> and Carl Grundstrom<\/a>, a role that will likely now go to Pederson, who can play center.<\/p>\n

The Latvian international was signed out of the SHL by the Flyers in advance of the 2024-25 season, and he earned his way into the NHL with a solid campaign at the AHL level. In 47 games for the Phantoms, Abols scored 32 points, a performance that helped him get into a total of 22 NHL games that year.<\/p>\n

So far this season, Abols has been able to carve out a steady role on the Flyers\u2019 fourth line. Though he only has 10 points in 42 games, he\u2019s been able to provide the kind of size and game-to-game reliability teams are looking for in the fourth-line center position. Abols has also seen sporadic deployment on the penalty kill, where he averages 0:39 time on ice per game overall, but has a single-game high of 2:13.<\/p>\n

With this recall, it\u2019s Pederson who will get the chance to replace Abols in head coach Rick Tocchet\u2019s lineup. It\u2019s highly unlikely Pederson alone will be able to reverse the Flyers\u2019 recent struggles, but he does have nearly 80 games of NHL experience and a solid record of scoring at the AHL level.<\/p>\n

From Pederson\u2019s perspective, this recall is a significant opportunity for him as he\u2019s a pending unrestricted free agent. Depth players in his position often have to squeeze everything they can out of the limited NHL exposure they receive, so he\u2019ll be under some pressure to step up in advance of an important free agent summer for the future of his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Flyers announced today that center Rodrigo Abols has been placed on injured reserve with a lower-body…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5112],"tags":[401,1468,5,402,19352,4,1467,56,5205,15208],"class_list":{"0":"post-415481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-flyers","8":"tag-ahl","9":"tag-flyers","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-injury","12":"tag-lane-pederson","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-philadelphia","15":"tag-philadelphia-flyers","16":"tag-philadelphiaflyers","17":"tag-rodrigo-abols"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115920144016835446","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415481","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=415481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}