{"id":446334,"date":"2026-02-05T03:31:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/446334\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T03:31:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:31:52","slug":"ukko-pekka-luukkonen-to-miss-olympic-winter-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/446334\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen to miss Olympic Winter Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buffalo Sabres goalie Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen will no longer take part in the 25th\u00a0Olympic Winter Games begin this week in Milan Cortina, Italy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last month, he was named to the Team Finland roster.\u00a0He was expected to go into the Milan Cortina Games as the No. 3 goalie behind Juuse Saros and Kevin Lankinen.\u00a0Finland named Joonas Korpisalo as an injury replacement.<\/p>\n<p>However, Luukkonen suffered a lower body injury late last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While Sabres head coach Lindy Ruff says he is progressing, there is no timetable for a return.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Finland plays its first game Feb. 11 against Slovakia, then faces rival Sweden on Feb. 13 and host Italy on Feb. 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buffalo Sabres goalie Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen will no longer take part in the 25th\u00a0Olympic Winter Games begin this week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5100],"tags":[1249,1107,229,5133,5,40,4,2944,1108,4093,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-446334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-sabres","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-buffalo","10":"tag-buffalo-sabres","11":"tag-buffalosabres","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-rochester","16":"tag-sabres","17":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","18":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116015919510224454","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446334","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=446334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}