Dallas Stars forward Mikko Rantanen will miss at least the next two weeks due to the lower-body injury he sustained during the Milan Cortina Olympics, head coach Glen Gulutzan said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Gulutzan added that Rantanen is expected to return to the Stars before the end of the season. He was placed on injured reserve Monday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt won\u2019t be one or two games,\u201d Gulutzan said. \u201cLet\u2019s start at two weeks, and we\u2019ll see where it goes from there. He\u2019ll be out for some time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rantanen, 29, was injured in Finland\u2019s game against Canada and did not suit up in the bronze-medal match against Slovakia. He had six points (two goals, four assists) in five games for the Finns.<\/p>\n
He has a club-best 49 assists and 69 points to go along with 20 goals in 54 games with the Stars this season.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s hard to replace,\u201d Gulutzan said. \u201cIt\u2019s just opportunity for other guys to get more time and step up in that role. You can\u2019t replace a player like him, but you can mitigate the loss for a bit, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re going to try to do with different guys.\u201d<\/p>\n
Signed to an eight-year, $96 million contract, Rantanen has totaled 774 points (314 goals, 460 assists) in 706 career games with the Colorado Avalanche (2015-25), Carolina Hurricanes (2025) and Stars (2025-26). He was selected by Colorado with the 10th overall pick in the 2015 NHL Draft and helped the Avalanche win the Stanley Cup in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Stars forward Mikko Rantanen will miss at least the next two weeks due to the lower-body injury…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5117],"tags":[196,147,5278,5,4,197],"class_list":{"0":"post-470160","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-stars"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116127726866104413","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470160","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=470160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}