{"id":468180,"date":"2026-02-23T14:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/468180\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T14:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:37:11","slug":"mikko-rantanen-could-miss-some-time-with-olympics-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/468180\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikko Rantanen could ‘miss some time’ with Olympics injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NHL Olympic break is coming to an end, and players are returning to their respective franchises. Finland fell to Canada in the semifinals<\/a>, but would go on to win the bronze medal.<\/p>\n

In the semifinal against Canada, Team Finland and Dallas Stars<\/a>‘ forward Mikko Rantanen was injured. Now, there are rumors about his future status<\/a> and potential to miss time, per Elliotte Friedman on the 32 Thoughts podcast.<\/p>\n

\u201cRantanen got hurt here. I think he’s going to miss some time. I don’t believe it’s season-ending, but I think he’s going to miss some time,\u201d Friedman said.<\/p>\n

The forward was injured in the third period against Canada in the semifinal and then missed the bronze medal game. Finland went on to defeat Slovakia 6-1 without Rantanen to take home a medal. He was spotted walking out to celebrate<\/a> with his team after the victory, according to Dallas Stars beat reporter Sam Nestler.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll smiles,\u201d Nestler wrote about Rantanen heading to the celebration. He did add that the forward was walking with a slight limp.<\/p>\n

The Stars are in the middle of a playoff race, and any missing time would be a blow to the team. At 34-14-9 on the season, they are a point behind the Minnesota Wild for third place in the Central Division.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the interesting questions is going to be when we get back, who’s in and who’s out, and who’s out for how long?\u201d Freidman added on his podcast.<\/p>\n

Players being injured at the Olympics could have an impact on the NHL trade deadline, which is quickly approaching. The Olympic trade freeze has ended<\/a>, and teams can now return to finalizing deals and working on trades. The trade deadline is Mar. 6 at 3 p.m. ET, meaning teams have less than two weeks to evaluate their teams, including injuries, and see what moves need to be made.<\/p>\n

The Stars return to play on Wednesday night, hosting the Seattle Kraken. They surely are hopeful to have more answers on the status of their star forward before the content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NHL Olympic break is coming to an end, and players are returning to their respective franchises. Finland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5117],"tags":[196,147,5278,5,4,7901,107,197],"class_list":{"0":"post-468180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-stars","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-stars","10":"tag-dallasstars","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-nhl-injury","14":"tag-nhl-rumors","15":"tag-stars"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116120456236365802","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468180","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=468180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}