{"id":225692,"date":"2026-03-18T19:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T19:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/225692\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T19:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T19:28:07","slug":"ducks-ross-johnston-out-three-to-four-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/225692\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks’ Ross Johnston Out Three To Four Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ducks will be without enforcer\u00a0Ross Johnston<\/a>\u00a0for the next three to four weeks with a lower-body injury, head coach Joel Quenneville<\/a> announced (via Derek Lee of The Hockey News<\/a>).<\/p>\n

After spending a good chunk of last year in the press box, Johnston has been Anaheim\u2019s primary option in the fourth-line left wing slot, playing in 62 of 67 games. Only one of those absences was due to an illness, although he did sit out of the Ducks\u2019 last three games as a healthy scratch before landing an injury designation. While he\u2019s now been passed on the depth chart by midseason pickup\u00a0Jeffrey Viel<\/a>, Johnston has still managed an impressive season in his own right.<\/p>\n

Entering the year, the 32-year-old had only topped the 40-game mark twice in nine NHL seasons. Now at his second time over 60 in the last three years, he\u2019s also doubled his previous career-high in points with a 3-11\u201314 scoring line. The 6\u20195\u2033, 232-lb lefty has fully retained his mean streak while getting involved in the play a bit more, leading the team with 107 penalty minutes and 192 hits. Averaging 9:45 of ice time per game, his 19.06 hits per 60 rank 16th in the league (min. 20 games).<\/p>\n

Anaheim\u2019s final regular-season game is on April 16, one day after the four-week mark handed down today. There\u2019s a chance he\u2019s done for the regular season as a result, but he could also be back as early as April 8 with four games left on the Ducks\u2019 schedule. In any event, with his Ducks the favorite to take home the Pacific Division in what\u2019s been a slog to the finish line for everyone involved, he should be an option to suit up in the first round for the second postseason appearance of his career. In parts of seven seasons with the Islanders before being claimed off waivers by Anaheim in 2023, he only suited up once for them in the playoffs, appearing in five games in the 2020 bubble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ducks will be without enforcer\u00a0Ross Johnston\u00a0for the next three to four weeks with a lower-body injury, head…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,824,165,164,10371],"class_list":["post-225692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-ross-johnston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225692","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=225692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}