{"id":495813,"date":"2026-02-24T07:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T07:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/495813\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T07:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T07:33:07","slug":"dallas-stars-place-mikko-rantanen-on-ir-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/495813\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Stars Place Mikko Rantanen On IR \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Stars <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DallasStars\/status\/2026062012388610097\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced today<\/a> that they have placed star forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/rantami01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-23_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mikko Rantanen<\/a> on injured reserve, retroactive to Feb. 20, the date of Finland\u2019s loss to Canada in the quarterfinals of the recent Winter Olympic tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Stars head coach Glen Gulutzan told the media today, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RobertTiffin\/status\/2026001804958257423\" rel=\"nofollow\">including Stars Thoughts\u2019 Robert Tiffin<\/a>, that Rantanen is doubtful to play in the Stars\u2019 first game back from the break, and is questionable beyond that point. According to Tiffin, Gulutzan \u201cdidn\u2019t want to speculate\u201d on Rantanen\u2019s status beyond this week.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s roster move suggests Rantanen isn\u2019t set for an extended absence. Since his IR placement was made retroactive to Feb. 20, he will be eligible for activation as early as Feb. 27. If the team held a firm expectation that Rantanen would miss well over a week, it is less likely that they would have directly clarified the retroactive nature of his IR placement in their announcement post.<\/p>\n<p>Rantanen\u2019s injury didn\u2019t end up costing Finland, as they cruised past Slovakia to earn a bronze medal. His injury, while seemingly minor in the grand scheme of the Stars\u2019 season, threatens to seriously impact their odds of winning the games he\u2019s set to miss. Rantanen is arguably Dallas\u2019 most talented forward, currently leading the team in scoring with 69 points in 54 games.<\/p>\n<p>Rantanen leads all Stars forwards in time-on-ice per game and is widely considered one of the game\u2019s top wingers. Missing him, even for a handful of games, will hurt the Stars. With that said, Gulutzan\u2019s comments combined with how the Stars have announced Rantanen\u2019s IR placement suggest the star winger won\u2019t be sidelined for too long, which is certainly good news for Dallas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Stars announced today that they have placed star forward Mikko Rantanen on injured reserve, retroactive to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,757,198859,44237,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-495813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-dallas-stars","11":"tag-glen-gulutzan","12":"tag-mikko-rantanen","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495813","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=495813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}