{"id":271286,"date":"2025-11-09T03:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T03:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/271286\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T03:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T03:28:09","slug":"pacific-injury-updates-ducks-flames-oilers-canucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/271286\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Injury Updates: Ducks, Flames, Oilers, Canucks"},"content":{"rendered":"

The early-season brilliance of the Anaheim Ducks has been one of the defining storylines of this young 2025-26 season so far, and it appears today that they will soon get some reinforcements in the form of veterans returning from injury. Per The Hockey News\u2019 Derek Lee<\/a>, Ducks head coach Joel Quenneville said today that veterans Ryan Strome<\/a>, Mikael Granlund<\/a>, and Radko Gudas<\/a> are each getting very close to returning to the ice from their respective injuries.<\/p>\n

Gudas hasn\u2019t played since Oct. 23 due to a lower-body injury, while Granlund has been out since Oct. 25 with his own lower-body injury. Strome hasn\u2019t played yet this season due to an upper-body injury, but Quenneville said he\u2019s \u201cvery close to consideration\u201d to play in tomorrow\u2019s game against the Winnipeg Jets. All the Ducks have done despite the absence of those key veterans is win. Powered by a young core including breakout sensation Leo Carlsson<\/a>, the Ducks have put together a five-game winning streak. Getting back Strome, who scored 41 points last season, alongside Granlund, who has eight points in eight games, should only further bolster what has been the league\u2019s most lethal attack in 2025-26. The return of Gudas is unlikely to help in terms of scoring, but will provide the team with even more physicality on defense as well as useful veteran insulation for the club\u2019s stable of still-developing young blueliners.<\/p>\n

Other injury updates from the Pacific Division:<\/p>\n

Flames Nation\u2019s Ryan Pike relayed two injury updates<\/a> from Calgary Flames head coach Ryan Huska today: defenseman Kevin Bahl<\/a>, who is dealing with an undisclosed injury, may return against the Minnesota Wild tomorrow, while forward Martin Pospisil<\/a>\u2019s absence due to an upper-body injury is \u201cstill going to be a while.\u201d Bahl, who this season signed a $5.5MM AAV extension to remain in Calgary, missed the team\u2019s game Friday against the Chicago Blackhawks. Pospisil has been out for far longer; he has yet to make his season debut in 2025-26.
\nThe Edmonton Oilers have a few injury updates of their own, courtesy of Oilers TV host Tony Brar<\/a>. Mattias Janmark<\/a> is reportedly \u201cvery close\u201d to returning from his injury, one that has kept him from making his season debut in 2025-26. In addition, Zach Hyman<\/a> is nearing a return to the ice, it\u2019s likely to be within the next week and could come as early as Monday. Like Janmark, Hyman also has not yet played in the 2025-26 season. Both players play regular roles in Edmonton. Hyman is a key goal scorer and offensive contributor (he scored 54 goals in 2023-24 and had 27 last season) while Janmark is a steady, reliable bottom-six winger who plays a regular role on the team\u2019s penalty kill. The Oilers\u2019 penalty kill currently ranks No. 15 in the NHL, so the return of Janmark could help the unit achieve a notable boost in efficiency.
\nThe Vancouver Canucks are likely to benefit from the return from injury of two forwards, Jonathan Lekkerimaki<\/a> and Teddy Blueger<\/a>, Patrick Johnston of The Province reported today<\/a>. Lekkerimaki, 21, hasn\u2019t played since Oct. 19, and has one goal in four games this season. Blueger has also not played since Oct. 19, and also has one goal to his name. The return of Blueger in particular should help the Canucks. The 31-year-old veteran center ranked second among forwards on the team in short-handed ice time per game last season, and the forward who ranked No. 1, Pius Suter<\/a>, now plays for the St. Louis Blues. Seeing as the Canucks penalty kill currently ranks second to last in the NHL, getting a key contributor back from injury is surely a positive development for their hopes of improving in that area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The early-season brilliance of the Anaheim Ducks has been one of the defining storylines of this young 2025-26…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[766,49,762,48,453,5718,24495,94855,27807,47589,113695,448,124422,124423,82,66950,452,62331],"class_list":{"0":"post-271286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-anaheim-ducks","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-calgary-flames","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-edmonton-oilers","13":"tag-injury","14":"tag-jonathan-lekkerimaki","15":"tag-kevin-bahl","16":"tag-martin-pospisil","17":"tag-mattias-janmark","18":"tag-mikael-granlund","19":"tag-nhl","20":"tag-radko-gudas","21":"tag-ryan-strome","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-teddy-blueger","24":"tag-vancouver-canucks","25":"tag-zach-hyman"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271286","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=271286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}