{"id":241804,"date":"2025-10-26T17:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T17:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/241804\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T17:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T17:40:07","slug":"penguins-rickard-rakell-out-six-to-eight-weeks-with-hand-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/241804\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins&#8217; Rickard Rakell out six-to-eight weeks with hand injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/pittsburgh-penguins\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"pittsburgh-penguins\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a>&#8216; forward group will be down a key contributor for roughly the next two months.<\/p>\n<p>Winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/rickard-rakell\/42789ae7-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"42789ae7-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Rickard Rakell<\/a> underwent surgery on his left hand and will be sidelined for six-to-eight weeks, the team <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PenguinsPR\/status\/1982476149289886044\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> on Sunday. Rakell left Saturday&#8217;s loss to Columbus early in the third period after taking a shot off the back of the hand.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old is off to a strong start for a Penguins squad that&#8217;s impressed early on. Through nine games, he has three goals and five assists while averaging nearly 18 minutes a night.<\/p>\n<p>Rakell enjoyed a career-best season last year, posting highs in goals (35) and points (70), while tying his previous best in assists (35).<\/p>\n<p>With the loss of Rakell, Pittsburgh recalled forward Ville Koivunen from Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton of the AHL.<\/p>\n<p>Koivunen appeared in two games with the big club this season, failing to record a point. The 22-year-old made his NHL debut with the club in 2024-25, registering seven assists in eight games.<\/p>\n<p>This season in the AHL, the 2021 second-round pick posted 11 points (four goals, seven assists) in just six games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Penguins&#8216; forward group will be down a key contributor for roughly the next two months. Winger&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-241804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241804","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=241804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}