{"id":173450,"date":"2025-09-27T17:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T17:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/173450\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T17:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T17:11:07","slug":"kakko-out-6-weeks-for-kraken-with-broken-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/173450\/","title":{"rendered":"Kakko out 6 weeks for Kraken with broken hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/kaapo-kakko-8481554\" title=\"Kaapo Kakko\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kaapo Kakko<\/a> will be out six weeks for the Seattle Kraken because of a broken hand.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old forward was injured when he got slashed on the hand by Edmonton Oilers defenseman prospect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/oilers\/player\/beau-akey-8484139\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beau Akey<\/a> at 6:23 of the first period of a 4-1 preseason win on Wednesday. Kakko left the game and did not return; he played three shifts totaling 1:59 prior to the injury.<\/p>\n<p>Acquired by Seattle in a trade with the New York Rangers on Dec. 19, 2024, Kakko had a career-high 44 points in 79 games (14 goals, 30 assists) last season, including 30 points (10 goals, 20 assists) in 49 games following the trade.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 2 pick in the 2019 NHL Draft by New York, Kakko has 161 points (71 goals, 90 assists) in 379 regular-season games and nine points (four goals, five assists) in 44 Stanley Cup Playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>The Kraken, who finished seventh in the Pacific Division last season and did not qualify for the playoffs, open the regular season against the Anaheim Ducks on Oct. 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kaapo Kakko will be out six weeks for the Seattle Kraken because of a broken hand. The 24-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-173450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}