{"id":490587,"date":"2026-02-21T19:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T19:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/490587\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T19:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T19:55:07","slug":"rantanen-to-miss-olympic-bronze-medal-game-for-team-finland-with-lower-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/490587\/","title":{"rendered":"Rantanen to miss Olympic bronze medal game for Team Finland with lower-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/mikko-rantanen-8478420\" title=\"Mikko Rantanen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mikko Rantanen<\/a> will not play for Team Finland against Team Slovakia in the bronze medal game at the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 on Saturday (2:40 p.m. ET; Peacock, USA, ICI Tele, CBC Gem, CBC [JIP]) because of a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>The forward has six points (two goals, four assists) in five tournament games. Rantanen scored a power-play goal in the semifinal on Friday, a 3-2 loss to Team Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Rantanen, who is looking for his first Olympic medal, leads the Dallas Stars with 69 points (20 goals, 49 assists) in 54 games. He won gold with Finland at the 2016 World Junior Championship and silver at the 2016 World Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle Kraken forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/eeli-tolvanen-8480009\" title=\"Eeli Tolvanen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eeli Tolvanen<\/a> took Rantanen\u2019s place in Finland\u2019s lineup.<\/p>\n<p>The Stars (34-14-9) play their first game after the Olympic break on Wednesday against the Kraken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mikko Rantanen will not play for Team Finland against Team Slovakia in the bronze medal game at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-490587","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\/490587","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=490587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}