{"id":424564,"date":"2026-01-20T02:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T02:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/424564\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T02:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T02:54:08","slug":"robinson-gostisbehere-rooney-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/424564\/","title":{"rendered":"Robinson, Gostisbehere, Rooney \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n By Gabriel Foley<\/a> |
\n at January 19, 2026 5:57 pm <\/p>\n

A new injury hit the Carolina Hurricanes during Monday\u2019s game against the Buffalo Sabres. Forward Eric Robinson<\/a> left the game<\/a> with roughly eight minutes left in the first period after being awkwardly knocked down by former teammate and Sabres captain Rasmus Dahlin<\/a>. Robinson appeared to be nursing his left shoulder as he left the ice and has been designated with an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n

Robinson has continued to offer all-around utility in a bottom-six role this season. He has 10 goals, 15 points, and a plus-seven in 43 games this season. His performance has been a nice continuation on a strong debut with the Hurricanes last season. Robinson recorded 14 goals, 32 points, and a plus-14 while playing in all 82 games last season \u2013 all career-highs. He missed his first games as a Hurricane in late October, when an upper-body injury forced him out of six games.<\/p>\n

Other notes from around the league:<\/p>\n

The Hurricanes were again without defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere<\/a> on Monday per NHL.com\u2019s Walt Ruff<\/a>. It was Gostisbehere\u2019s fourth straight absence due to a lower-body injury and illness. The 32-year-old defenseman has now missed 14 games on the season. Despite that, he still leads the Hurricanes blue-line in scoring with six goals and 32 points in 35 games. He has 10 more points than K\u2019Andre Miller<\/a>, who ranks second. Gostisbehere will have a clear path into an important role when he returns from another absence.
\nThe Utah Mammoth have assigned<\/a> center Kevin Rooney<\/a> to the AHL\u2019s Tucson Roadrunners. He has served as an extra forward all year long and played his only NHL game in late November. Rooney has built a more prominent role in Tucson, where he has seven goals and 10 points in 20 games. He will slot back into a familiar role with the Roadrunners and could be a top call-up option when Utah needs another hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Gabriel Foley | at January 19, 2026 5:57 pm A new injury hit the Carolina Hurricanes during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[3063,64,63,3615,223128,3899,223129,575,223130,85,206,7528],"class_list":["post-424564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ahl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-carolina-hurricanes","tag-eric-robinson","tag-injury","tag-kevin-rooney","tag-nhl","tag-shayne-gostisbehere","tag-sports","tag-transactions","tag-utah-mammoth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424564","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=424564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}