{"id":244109,"date":"2025-10-27T19:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/244109\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T19:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:52:08","slug":"nhl-status-report-rakell-has-hand-surgery-out-6-8-weeks-for-penguins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/244109\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Status Report: Rakell has hand surgery, out 6-8 weeks for Penguins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia Flyers<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/rasmus-ristolainen-8477499\" title=\"Rasmus Ristolainen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rasmus Ristolainen<\/a> is about 4-6 weeks away from making his season debut, Flyers general manager Daniel Briere said Monday. The defenseman had surgery March 26 to repair a ruptured tendon in his right triceps and was expected to need six months to recover. &#8220;It&#8217;s pretty soon we&#8217;re hoping he starts practicing with the team,&#8221; Briere said. &#8220;Not sure how far away that is, but he&#8217;s progressing well and everything is going well. We&#8217;re hoping next month, in about the 4-6 week range, he&#8217;s back with the team.&#8221; \u2026 Defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/travis-sanheim-8477948\" title=\"Travis Sanheim\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Travis Sanheim<\/a> missed practice for &#8220;kind of&#8221; a maintenance day, Philadelphia coach Rick Tocchet said. &#8220;He&#8217;s dealing with a little tweak; better to keep him off the ice. He&#8217;s playing a lot of minutes.&#8221; Sanheim entered Monday second in the NHL in average time on ice per game (26:28). He has four points (one goal, three assists) in eight games. The Flyers host the Penguins on Tuesday (6 p.m. ET; ESPN, SN1, TVAS). \u2026 Defenseman prospect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/oliver-bonk-8484148\" title=\"Oliver Bonk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oliver Bonk<\/a>, the No. 22 pick of the 2023 NHL Draft, is still working his way back from an upper-body injury that has kept him off the ice since rookie camp in June. &#8220;We didn&#8217;t know how serious it was at first,&#8221; Briere said. &#8220;We kept him out of rookie camp and it lingered. We kept him out of main [training] camp thinking it would get better, [but] it&#8217;s been a slow process. But it&#8217;s going well now. We&#8217;re just hoping there&#8217;s no setbacks. We&#8217;re just trying to give him the time and proper space between skates for him to feel good enough to come back and play. It&#8217;s a little tougher on the timeline for him. We&#8217;re waiting on the progression and making sure there&#8217;s no setback on him.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Flyers Rasmus Ristolainen is about 4-6 weeks away from making his season debut, Flyers general manager Daniel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-244109","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\/244109","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=244109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}