{"id":464184,"date":"2026-02-20T03:39:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T03:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/464184\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T03:39:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T03:39:25","slug":"anderson-luukkonen-ratzlaff-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/464184\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson, Luukkonen, Ratzlaff \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Kings defenseman Mikey Anderson<\/a> told reporters, including Zach Dooley, Manager of Editorial Content for the team<\/a>, that he is optimistic to return next game post-break, against Vegas on February 25.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old was able to skate over the break and is on the right track. Anderson left early against Carolina on February 1 with an apparent finger injury, unable to go in the Kings\u2019 last two games before the Olympics. Clearly missing their trusty shutdown sidekick of Drew Doughty<\/a>, the Kings lost both, and were outscored 8-3. Anderson was placed on injured reserve February 8<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Set to host Vegas in six days, the game will be full of excitement as Artemi Panarin<\/a> is expected to make his long awaited Kings debut, although with the damper of missing Kevin Fiala<\/a> after his devastating injury in Milan<\/a>. Hopefully with Anderson back in the mix, Los Angeles will work on catching Anaheim for the second Wild Card spot and push for the playoffs.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere across the league:<\/p>\n

Buffalo Sabres goaltender Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen<\/a> returned to practice today, noted by Paul Hamilton of WGR Sports Radio 550<\/a>, and seems to be on track to return in his club\u2019s next game as well. The soon to be 27-year-old left mid game against Toronto on January 27 due to an apparent lower-body injury, concerning as he had to miss the start of the campaign due to the same ailment. Unfortunately, the injury cost him a spot on Team Finland at the Olympics<\/a>, opening the door for Bruins netminder Joonas Korpisalo<\/a>. Luukkonen has posted a .902 save percentage and 2.73 goals against average, to go with an 11-7-2 record. Buffalo is back in action next Wednesday at New Jersey.
\nNot surprising given Luukkonen\u2019s positive news, Buffalo reassigned fellow netminder Scott Ratzlaff<\/a> back to ECHL Jacksonville earlier today.<\/a> Like many others across the league, Ratzlaff got to fill in and practice with the big club during the Olympic break. A fifth round selection by the team in 2023, the 20-year-old is in his first professional season hailing from the Seattle Thunderbirds of the WHL. Ratzlaff has spent most time in the ECHL, posting a strong .916 save percentage in 12 contests, also playing in six games for AHL Rochester, winning three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Kings defenseman Mikey Anderson told reporters, including Zach Dooley, Manager of Editorial Content for the team,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[229,5,145,6433,4,38277,7800],"class_list":{"0":"post-464184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-buffalo-sabres","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-los-angeles-kings","11":"tag-mikey-anderson","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-scott-ratzlaff","14":"tag-ukko-pekka-luukkonen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116100881912674645","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464184","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=464184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}