{"id":304180,"date":"2025-11-23T20:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T20:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/304180\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T20:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T20:35:08","slug":"stars-mikko-rantanen-gets-automatic-one-game-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/304180\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars’ Mikko Rantanen gets automatic one-game suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Emily KaplanNov 24, 2025, 07:10 AM<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Emily Kaplan is ESPN’s national NHL reporter.<\/p>\n

Dallas Stars<\/a> forward Mikko Rantanen<\/a> received an automatic one-game suspension after getting ejected from his second game in a three-game span.<\/p>\n

Rantanen received a game misconduct late in the second period of Saturday’s 3-2 shootout loss to the Flames after boarding Flames forward Matt Coronato<\/a> from behind. Coronato was able to finish the game, but his coach Ryan Huska called it “a terrible hit.”<\/p>\n

The NHL Department of Player Safety chose not to have a hearing for Rantanen following his latest infraction, according to sources, and instead relied on Rule 23.6 of the NHL rulebook which mandates an automatic one-game suspension for any player who receives a total of two game misconduct penalties in the “Physical Infractions Category” within 41 consecutive regular season games.<\/p>\n

The suspension will bench Rantanen for Tuesday night’s matchup in Edmonton against the Edmonton Oilers<\/a>, a rematch of last year’s Western Conference Final, which the Oilers won in five games.<\/p>\n

Rantanen, 29, is tied with Jason Robertson<\/a> for the Stars team lead with 28 points over 22 games (10 goals, 18 assists). With his two ejections, he now leads the team with a whopping 57 penalty minutes.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s hit was the latest in a tough week for Rantanen.<\/p>\n

In last Tuesday’s 3-2 loss to the Islanders, the Stars winger was also ejected late in the game after boarding defenseman Alexander Romanov<\/a>. That play drew the ire of Islanders coach Patrick Roy, who went on a profane tirade as Rantanen left the ice, then later called the hit “disrespectful”<\/p>\n

“I’m going to say is [that] when you see the number, you have to lay off. Everybody knows that. You don’t go through the guy,” Roy said after the game. “I was in Colorado when [Rantanen] was drafted there. It’s not his style. But at the same time, that should not be part of our game.”<\/p>\n

Romanov has been sidelined since that play and is on injured reserve with an upper body injury. According to sources, Romanov is getting a second opinion from Islanders doctors over the weekend, but the team is bracing for the defenseman to be out “a while” due to an injury from that hit.<\/p>\n

Rantanen has no history of supplemental discipline over his 11-year-career, which has spanned Colorado, Carolina and now Dallas. Rantanen’s only noted history with the NHL’s Department of Player Safety before this suspension was an embellishment fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emily KaplanNov 24, 2025, 07:10 AM CloseEmily Kaplan is ESPN’s national NHL reporter. Dallas Stars forward Mikko Rantanen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-304180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}