{"id":327814,"date":"2025-12-05T21:25:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T21:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/327814\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T21:25:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T21:25:04","slug":"nhl-status-report-luostarinen-could-return-for-panthers-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/327814\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Status Report: Luostarinen could return for Panthers this weekend\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anaheim Ducks<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/mikael-granlund-8475798\" title=\"Mikael Granlund\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mikael Granlund<\/a> will return for the Ducks against the Washington Capitals on Friday (10 p.m. ET; Victory+, MNMT, KCOP-13, SNW, SNO, SNE, TVAS). The forward hasn&#8217;t played since Nov. 13, when he had a goal in a 6-3 win against the Detroit Red Wings. He has missed 10 straight games and 18 of the past 19 because of a lower-body injury. &#8220;He looked like he was more than ready,&#8221; Ducks coach Joel Quenneville said. &#8220;He adds a lot of pace to our game, play recognition, and his patience with the puck is high-end. &#8230; He does a lot of things for our group there, and you can use him in every situation.&#8221; Granlund, who skated with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/ryan-strome-8476458\" title=\"Ryan Strome\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Strome<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/frank-vatrano-8478366\" title=\"Frank Vatrano\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frank Vatrano<\/a>, has nine points (three goals, nine assists) in nine games this season. &#8230; The Ducks are currently without goalies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/petr-mrazek-8475852\" title=\"Petr Mrazek\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Petr Mrazek<\/a>, who will be out 2-3 weeks for the Ducks with a lower-body injury and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/lukas-dostal-8480843\" title=\"Lukas Dostal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lukas Dostal<\/a>, who has an upper-body injury and is expected to miss another 1-2 weeks. He has not played since Nov. 22. Ville Husso started in a 7-0 loss to the Utah Mammoth on Wednesday and allowed four goals on 21 shots before being replaced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/ducks\/player\/vyacheslav-buteyets-8483746\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vyacheslav Buteyets<\/a> (three goals on 13 shots).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anaheim Ducks Mikael Granlund will return for the Ducks against the Washington Capitals on Friday (10 p.m. ET;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-327814","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\/327814","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=327814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}