{"id":527875,"date":"2026-03-28T17:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T17:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/527875\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T17:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T17:29:12","slug":"stars-rantanen-set-to-return-saturday-vs-penguins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/527875\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars\u2019 Rantanen set to return Saturday vs. Penguins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The playoff bound <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/dallas-stars\/25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/dallas-stars\/25\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Stars<\/a> are getting back back one of their most talented players on Saturday as right winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/mikko-rantanen\/8478420\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/mikko-rantanen\/8478420\" target=\"_blank\">Mikko Rantanen<\/a> was activated off the injured reserve. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 29-year-old, who suffered a lower-body injury while playing for his native Finland at Milano Cortina 2026 in February, will be in the lineup for Dallas\u2019 game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/pittsburgh-penguins\/5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/pittsburgh-penguins\/5\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rantanen has missed 15 games and hasn\u2019t appeared in an NHL game since Feb. 4 due to the injury. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rantanen has tallied 20 goals and 49 assists over 54 games in 2025-26, his first full season with the the Stars since being acquired from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/carolina-hurricanes\/12\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/carolina-hurricanes\/12\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> ahead of last year\u2019s trade deadline. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Stars have already locked down a playoff spot, currently sitting second in the Central Division with a 43-18-11 record. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The playoff bound Dallas Stars are getting back back one of their most talented players on Saturday as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4759,33166,5,44306,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-527875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-dallas-stars-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-25","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-mikko-rantanen-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8478420","12":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116307988523577775","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527875","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=527875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}