{"id":466644,"date":"2026-02-22T07:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T07:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/466644\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T07:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T07:51:12","slug":"jonathan-lekkerimaki-to-undergo-season-ending-surgery-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/466644\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Lekkerimaki To Undergo Season-Ending Surgery \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a bit of a tough season for Canucks winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lekkejo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-21_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jonathan Lekkerimaki<\/a>.\u00a0 He dealt with an early-season injury and has bounced around between Vancouver and AHL Abbotsford.\u00a0 Now, his campaign is coming to a premature end as CHEK\u2019s Rick Dhaliwal reports (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DhaliwalSports\/status\/2025264221211308472\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>) that Lekkerimaki is set to undergo season-ending shoulder surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old was the 15th overall selection by Vancouver back in 2022 but hasn\u2019t been able to establish himself as a regular with them yet.\u00a0 He missed a little more than a month to start the season with that injury and has had three stints with AHL Abbotsford and two others with Vancouver since mid-November.<\/p>\n<p>One of those NHL opportunities came in the weeks leading up to the Olympics as Lekkerimaki got into Vancouver\u2019s last five games before the break.\u00a0 On the season, he has a pair of goals along with an assist in 13 outings while averaging 11:41 per night.\u00a0 That production was in line with how he fared last season when he notched three goals and three helpers in his first 24 career NHL contests.<\/p>\n<p>Lekkerimaki had fared much better in the minors.\u00a0 He\u2019s tied for fourth in team scoring despite only playing in 21 of 52 games with 13 goals and seven assists.\u00a0 Four of those points came in five games after being sent down to get some more game action in during the Olympic break.<\/p>\n<p>While it was expected that Lekkerimaki would return to Vancouver following the break or soon after depending on trade deadline activity, that\u2019s clearly no longer an option with this news.\u00a0 Now, his sophomore year has come to a premature end and he\u2019ll head into training camp in the fall looking to grab a hold of a full-time NHL spot for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been a bit of a tough season for Canucks winger Jonathan Lekkerimaki.\u00a0 He dealt with an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[5,402,4257,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-466644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-injury","10":"tag-jonathan-lekkerimaki","11":"tag-vancouver-canucks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116113197280235069","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466644","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=466644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}