{"id":555381,"date":"2026-03-23T13:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/555381\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T13:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:48:08","slug":"rantanen-hintz-faksa-robertson-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/555381\/","title":{"rendered":"Rantanen, Hintz, Faksa, Robertson \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s some light at the end of the tunnel on the injury front for Dallas.\u00a0 Speaking on DFW The Ticket\u2019s Bruce LeVine (all<\/a> Twitter<\/a> links<\/a>), GM Jim Nill indicated that winger Mikko Rantanen<\/a> is nearing a return to the lineup.<\/p>\n

Injured back in the Olympics, the 29-year-old still sits third on the team in scoring despite missing the last 12 games, tallying 20 goals and 49 assists in 54 games in his first full season in Dallas.\u00a0 Nill noted that he has been skating on his own for the last week and is expected to accompany the team on their upcoming four-game road trip.\u00a0 If all goes well, he could return for one of the back-to-back games against Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

Dallas is only three points behind Colorado heading into tonight\u2019s action for first in the Western Conference, a spot that would give them a much easier matchup in the first round compared to taking on Minnesota, one of the top teams in the league.\u00a0 Getting Rantanen back with a couple of weeks left in the season would certainly give them a boost in that pursuit.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for the Stars, the other injury news isn\u2019t quite as positive.\u00a0 Nill added that center Roope Hintz<\/a> has yet to resume skating as he continues to battle a lower-body injury that has kept him out for a little more than two weeks.\u00a0 At this point, the team is hopeful that the 29-year-old could be back for the final week of the season or the start of the playoffs.\u00a0 Hintz has played in 53 games this season, collecting 19 goals and 25 assists.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Radek Faksa<\/a>\u2019s situation is even murkier.\u00a0 Nill noted that the center is dealing with a \u201cunique injury\u201d with \u201creally no history as far as healing time.\u201d\u00a0 As a result, there is no timetable for his return although they are hopeful that he could be ready for the playoffs.\u00a0 In his first season back with Dallas after returning in free agency this summer, Faksa has 17 points in 56 games while being their most-used forward on the penalty kill.<\/p>\n

Nill was also asked about Jason Robertson<\/a>\u2019s contract discussions.\u00a0 The winger is slated to become a restricted free agent this summer where he will be owed a qualifying offer of $9.3MM.\u00a0 He\u2019ll also only be one season away from UFA eligibility and could simply elect to go for a hearing, take a one-year award, and test the open market in 2027.\u00a0 That\u2019s an outcome the Stars are clearly hoping to avoid.<\/p>\n

Nill indicated that he has held discussions with Robertson\u2019s new representation; back in January, both Robertson brothers hired<\/a> Octagon\u2019s Andy Scott as their new agent.\u00a0 However, with the stretch run and playoffs ahead, both sides agree that they want the 26-year-old focused on playing at the moment.\u00a0 That suggests that future talks have been tabled for the time being and will be rekindled in the offseason.\u00a0 Robertson is the leading scorer for the Stars this season, picking up 38 goals and 44 assists in 69 games.\u00a0 It\u2019s the fourth straight season that he has reached the 80-point mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s some light at the end of the tunnel on the injury front for Dallas.\u00a0 Speaking on DFW…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,757,5718,17359,44237,448,166104,54149,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-555381","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-dallas-stars","11":"tag-injury","12":"tag-jason-robertson","13":"tag-mikko-rantanen","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-radek-faksa","16":"tag-roope-hintz","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555381","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=555381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555381\/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=555381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}