{"id":433613,"date":"2026-01-29T03:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/433613\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T03:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:00:13","slug":"rasmus-ristolainen-leaves-flyers-game-against-blue-jackets-with-injury-nbc-sports-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/433613\/","title":{"rendered":"Rasmus Ristolainen leaves Flyers\u2019 game against Blue Jackets with injury \u2013 NBC Sports Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In just his second game back from an injury, Rasmus Ristolainen had to exit during the first period Wednesday night and did not return.<\/p>\n<p>The Flyers&#8217; defenseman played only two shifts and 1:01 minutes against the Blue Jackets before departing. The team announced that he suffered a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>Ristolainen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com\/nhl\/philadelphia-flyers\/flyers-lay-an-egg-in-loss-to-islanders-and-hear-it-from-fans\/709517\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com\/nhl\/philadelphia-flyers\/flyers-lay-an-egg-in-loss-to-islanders-and-hear-it-from-fans\/709517\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">returned to the lineup Monday night<\/a> after missing the previous six games with an upper-body injury. The 31-year-old has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com\/nhl\/philadelphia-flyers\/rasmus-ristolainen-injury-opens-door-for-flyers-young-defensemen\/661826\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com\/nhl\/philadelphia-flyers\/rasmus-ristolainen-injury-opens-door-for-flyers-young-defensemen\/661826\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">battled injuries in his five seasons with the Flyers<\/a>. Most recently, he had to miss significant time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com\/nhl\/philadelphia-flyers\/flyers-defense-full-look-with-rasmus-ristolainen-return-from-injury\/701538\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com\/nhl\/philadelphia-flyers\/flyers-defense-full-look-with-rasmus-ristolainen-return-from-injury\/701538\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">with a second triceps tendon rupture<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If there&#8217;s any good news, it&#8217;s that Ristolainen&#8217;s injury doesn&#8217;t appear to be related to his arm.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see if this injury changes his status for the Olympics. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com\/nhl\/philadelphia-flyers\/flyers-rasmus-ristolainen-to-play-at-olympics-team-finland-roster\/704069\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com\/nhl\/philadelphia-flyers\/flyers-rasmus-ristolainen-to-play-at-olympics-team-finland-roster\/704069\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">He&#8217;s slated to play for Team Finland<\/a> in two weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In just his second game back from an injury, Rasmus Ristolainen had to exit during the first period&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5112],"tags":[1468,2575,5,4,1467,56,5205],"class_list":{"0":"post-433613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-flyers","8":"tag-flyers","9":"tag-flyers-news","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia-flyers","14":"tag-philadelphiaflyers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115976157541844899","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433613","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=433613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}