{"id":463035,"date":"2026-02-19T05:52:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T05:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/463035\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T05:52:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T05:52:26","slug":"petr-mrazek-to-miss-remainder-of-season-after-hip-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/463035\/","title":{"rendered":"Petr Mrazek to miss remainder of season after hip surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Anaheim Ducks<\/a> are down a goalie after news broke that veteran goaltender Petr Mrazek is done for the remainder of the 2025-26 NHL campaign.<\/p>\n

Mrazek, who just turned 34 years old on Feb. 14, went under the knife on Tuesday<\/a>, according to the Ducks’ official website.<\/p>\n

\u201cDucks goaltender Petr Mrazek underwent hip surgery Tuesday and will be out for the remainder of the season,\u201d the announcement read.<\/p>\n

It may take a long time for Mrazek to fully recover from the surgery, which could mean that he’ll not be ready to be in front of the net by the time the 2026-27 NHL season starts.<\/p>\n

There is also the question of which team Mrazek will suit up for in the next campaign, as his current contract expires in the offseason. He signed a two-year, $8.5 million extension deal with the Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> in 2024 before getting traded to the Detroit Red Wings along with Craig Smith in exchange for Joe Veleno in 2025.<\/p>\n

Months later, the Ducks acquired Mrazek from the Red Wings along with a fourth-round pick in the 2026 NHL Draft and a 2026 second-rounder for goalie John Gibson.<\/p>\n

In 10 appearances in the 2025-26 season, Mrazek went just 3-5-0 with a .858 save percentage and 4.07 goals against average. Between his injury and apparent ineffectiveness in the crease, Mrazek may find it even harder to land a new contract. Still, his top priority at the moment is to fully recover from the surgery.<\/p>\n

As for Anaheim, the Ducks will continue to rely mostly on Lukas Dostal<\/a> for their goaltending needs, while Ville Husso can see an expanded role as a backup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Anaheim Ducks are down a goalie after news broke that veteran goaltender Petr Mrazek is done for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[2210,233,5292,1739,5,4,7901],"class_list":{"0":"post-463035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim-ducks","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-ducks","10":"tag-anaheimducks","11":"tag-ducks","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-nhl-injury"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116095742360544560","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463035","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=463035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}