{"id":688704,"date":"2026-10-17T02:36:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T02:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/688704\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T02:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T02:36:17","slug":"hurricanes-captain-and-reigning-playoff-mvp-jordan-staal-is-out-1-2-months-with-a-torn-calf-muscle-wtop-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/688704\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes captain and reigning playoff MVP Jordan Staal is out 1-2 months with a torn calf muscle \u2013 WTOP News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Carolina Hurricanes captain and <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/conn-smythe-playoff-mvp-jordan-staal-263d1093403412772818b06ab6d510d6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reigning playoff MVP Jordan Staal<\/a> is out 1-2 months with a partially torn calf muscle, coach Rod Brind\u2019Amour said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Staal was hurt during pregame warmups <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hurricanes-flyers-score-b51896d61995e39c08d3838aa9b64eff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday at Philadelphia<\/a>, according to Brind\u2019Amour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just something he did in warmup: a freaky thing, but it is what it is,\u201d Brind\u2019Amour said following his team\u2019s morning skate. \u201cNot good news there, but we\u2019ve had a lot of injuries over the years and we\u2019re just going to have to keep figuring it out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The defending Stanley Cup champions now have to go without one of their most important centers while already <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/carolina-hurricanes-seth-jarvis-72ede24fb8f24a703cc5ef0e89228423\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">missing winger Seth Jarvis<\/a> for the start of the season following shoulder surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Staal won the Conn Smythe Trophy for his contributions on Carolina\u2019s title run, which included scoring six goals in the final, winning 55% of his faceoffs and playing lockdown defense against some of the NHL\u2019s top players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe gets the tough matchups every night,\u201d Brind\u2019Amour said. \u201cNo hiding that now. We\u2019re all going to have to step up a little more with those two guys out, in particular.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jesperi Kotkaniemi figures to take Staal\u2019s spot in the lineup, with the Hurricanes expected to call up a forward from the minors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you have guys out that we have \u2014 high-end top players that do so much for your team \u2014 you\u2019re not replacing them with one guy,\u201d Brind\u2019Amour said. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of sharing the duties. With Jarvy out, we\u2019ve had to do that, and now with Jordo out we\u2019re going to have to figure that out, as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See AP\u2019s full NHL coverage here<\/a>\n              <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Carolina Hurricanes captain and reigning playoff MVP Jordan Staal is out 1-2 months with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5107],"tags":[194,29,5176,5,195,4],"class_list":["post-688704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-carolina-hurricanes","tag-carolina","tag-carolina-hurricanes","tag-carolinahurricanes","tag-hockey","tag-hurricanes","tag-nhl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117453926135690747","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688704","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=688704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}