{"id":186108,"date":"2026-02-20T13:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/186108\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T13:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:51:13","slug":"petr-mrazek-to-miss-remainder-of-season-after-hip-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/186108\/","title":{"rendered":"Petr Mrazek to miss remainder of season after hip surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Anaheim Ducks<\/a> are down a goalie after news broke that veteran goaltender Petr Mrazek is done for the remainder of the 2025-26 NHL campaign.<\/p>\n

Mrazek, who just turned 34 years old on Feb. 14, went under the knife on Tuesday<\/a>, according to the Ducks’ official website.<\/p>\n

\u201cDucks goaltender Petr Mrazek underwent hip surgery Tuesday and will be out for the remainder of the season,\u201d the announcement read.<\/p>\n

It may take a long time for Mrazek to fully recover from the surgery, which could mean that he’ll not be ready to be in front of the net by the time the 2026-27 NHL season starts.<\/p>\n

There is also the question of which team Mrazek will suit up for in the next campaign, as his current contract expires in the offseason. He signed a two-year, $8.5 million extension deal with the Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> in 2024 before getting traded to the Detroit Red Wings along with Craig Smith in exchange for Joe Veleno in 2025.<\/p>\n

Months later, the Ducks acquired Mrazek from the Red Wings along with a fourth-round pick in the 2026 NHL Draft and a 2026 second-rounder for goalie John Gibson.<\/p>\n

In 10 appearances in the 2025-26 season, Mrazek went just 3-5-0 with a .858 save percentage and 4.07 goals against average. Between his injury and apparent ineffectiveness in the crease, Mrazek may find it even harder to land a new contract. Still, his top priority at the moment is to fully recover from the surgery.<\/p>\n

As for Anaheim, the Ducks will continue to rely mostly on Lukas Dostal<\/a> for their goaltending needs, while Ville Husso can see an expanded role as a backup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Anaheim Ducks are down a goalie after news broke that veteran goaltender Petr Mrazek is done for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,824,165,164,404,69772],"class_list":["post-186108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-injury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}