Feb 23, 2026, 05:10 PM ET<\/p>\n
FRISCO, Texas — Mikko Rantanen<\/a> is expected to miss some time for the Dallas Stars<\/a> after returning from the Olympics, where he didn’t play in Finland’s win over Slovakia for the bronze medal because of a lower body injury.<\/p>\n “I wouldn’t expect him, certainly for the first game, or maybe in the first two,” coach Glen Gulutzan said after the Stars practiced Monday.<\/p>\n Gulutzan said Rantanen, the Stars’ leading scorer with 69 points (20 goals, 49 assists), was going to see a doctor.<\/p>\n The Stars host Seattle on Wednesday night and are home again Saturday against Nashville. They will then have a day off Sunday before road games on consecutive nights.<\/p>\n After getting hurt in Finland’s 3-2 loss to Canada in the Olympic semifinals on Friday night, Rantanen didn’t play in the 6-1 win over Slovakia on Saturday night.<\/p>\n Rantanan was among six Stars players who brought home medals from the Olympics.<\/p>\n Jake Oettinger<\/a> was the backup goalie for the United States team that won the gold medal with a 2-1 overtime win over Canada, which meant a silver for Stars defenseman Thomas Harley<\/a>. Four Dallas players were on the Finland squad that won bronze; Rantanen, Roope Hintz<\/a>, Esa Lindell<\/a> and Miro Heiskanen<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb 23, 2026, 05:10 PM ET FRISCO, Texas — Mikko Rantanen is expected to miss some time for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-500011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500011","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=500011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}