{"id":304254,"date":"2025-11-23T21:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/304254\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T21:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:28:08","slug":"romanov-has-shoulder-surgery-out-5-6-months-for-islanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/304254\/","title":{"rendered":"Romanov has shoulder surgery, out 5-6 months for Islanders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alexander Romanov<\/a> had shoulder surgery and is expected to be out 5-6 months, the New York Islanders announced Sunday.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old defenseman was injured late in a 3-2 win against the Dallas Stars on Nov. 18 when he was boarded behind the net at 19:32 of the third period by Stars forward Mikko Rantanen<\/a>, who was also given a game misconduct.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst of all, he’s not happy; there\u2019s no doubt about it,\u201d Islanders coach Patrick Roy said before their game against the Seattle Kraken (5 p.m. ET; KHN\/Prime, MSGSN, KONG, SNP, SNW). \u201c\u2026 We have to move on, and you don’t replace a player like him. You hope that the guys coming in will fit in, and hopefully that [Adam] Boqvist will play like he’s been playing.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, I mean, it’s an opportunity for [Boqvist], and he needs to take advantage of it. We\u2019ll see what (GM Mathieu) Darche decides, but we have Marshall [Warren] that played really well for us and we’re comfortable to have him playing if he has to.\u201d<\/p>\n

Romanov has one assist and 31 blocked shots in 15 games this season and is averaging 19:27 of ice time. He was placed on injured reserve Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“Obviously, I never meant to do that,” Rantanen said Wednesday. “I’ve never done that my whole career. I play hard, but I never try to be dirty on purpose. I think I got clipped a little bit, and then he [fell] forward. Unfortunate moment, but I never really meant to do it. Hopefully he’s not too bad.”<\/p>\n

Rantanen was automatically suspended one game Sunday<\/a> for receiving another game misconduct when he boarded forward Matt Coronato<\/a> in the second period of a 3-2 shootout loss at the Calgary Flames on Saturday.<\/p>\n

NHL.com independent correspondent Stefen Rosner contributed to this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexander Romanov had shoulder surgery and is expected to be out 5-6 months, the New York Islanders announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-304254","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\/304254","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=304254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}