{"id":590588,"date":"2026-06-04T00:31:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T00:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/590588\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T00:31:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T00:31:33","slug":"capitals-defenseman-rasmus-sandin-begins-rehab-journey-back-from-torn-acl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/590588\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitals Defenseman Rasmus Sandin Begins Rehab & Journey Back From Torn ACL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington Capitals<\/a> defenseman Rasmus Sandin<\/a> took another step on the road to recovery, as he’s started to rehabilitate his torn ACL.<\/p>\n

Sandin took to social media to document his progress and physical therapy, including stretches and walking with a crutch. Tom Wilson<\/a>, Brandon Duhaime<\/a> and several of Sandin’s teammates, along with other athletes like Swedish pole vaulter and gold medalist Mondo Duplantis, commented with messages of support.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old tore his ACL in the third-to-last game of the 2025-26 season on April 11, when his skate got stuck in the ice as he took a hit on a pick play from Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> forward Justin Brazeau<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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“It was just an unlucky play… I had pretty much all my weight on that leg,” Sandin said. “If I could just shift a little bit of my weight to my other leg, I don’t think anything maybe would’ve happened. I haven’t really checked the play after, you’re just kind of pissed it happened.”<\/p>\n

Sandin underwent surgery on April 20, and though his timeline will depend on how he progresses, the typical recovery is 6-9 months, which could hold him out until at least January.<\/p>\n

With Sandin out long-term, general manager Chris Patrick said the Capitals plan to explore options this summer to address the defense corps and fill Sandin’s void. He was playing top-pairing minutes on the right side down the stretch, filling the void left by John Carlson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Through 73 games this past season, Sandin put up five goals and 24 assists for 29 points, along with a plus\/minus rating of plus-4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington Capitals defenseman Rasmus Sandin took another step on the road to recovery, as he’s started to rehabilitate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5114],"tags":[1600,191,5,281,3712,65717,4,100,4603,280,45747,190,109,5222],"class_list":["post-590588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-capitals","tag-brandon-duhaime","tag-capitals","tag-hockey","tag-john-carlson","tag-justin-brazeau","tag-mondo-duplantis","tag-nhl","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-rasmus-sandin","tag-tom-wilson","tag-torn-acl","tag-washington","tag-washington-capitals","tag-washingtoncapitals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116689022741603514","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590588","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=590588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}