{"id":96703,"date":"2025-12-16T12:36:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/96703\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T12:36:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:36:55","slug":"rangers-veteran-mika-zibanejad-will-be-a-healthy-scratch-vs-ducks-after-missing-team-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/96703\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers veteran Mika Zibanejad will be a healthy scratch vs. Ducks after missing team meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-york-rangers\/3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-york-rangers\/3\" target=\"_blank\">New York Rangers<\/a> veteran forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/mika-zibanejad\/8476459\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/mika-zibanejad\/8476459\" target=\"_blank\">Mika Zibanejad<\/a> will be a healthy scratch for Monday\u2019s game against the visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/anaheim-ducks\/24\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/anaheim-ducks\/24\" target=\"_blank\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a> after missing a recent team meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Head coach Mike Sullivan said\u00a0that\u00a0despite the \u201clogistical challenges\u201d of New York City contributing to Zibanejad\u2019s lateness, everybody needs to be held accountable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cMika understands the importance of the rules that we all expect of one another,\u201d explained Sullivan. \u201cHe feels terribly. The one thing about Mika is he\u2019s an honest person. He\u2019s a great human being and he takes responsibility for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mike Sullivan announces that Mika Zibanejad will not play tonight against the Ducks because he missed a team meeting<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan on the decision: &#8220;There are logistical challenges that this city presents sometimes&#8230;he feels terribly&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/haeecRXtNc\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/haeecRXtNc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rangers Videos (@SNYRangers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SNYRangers\/status\/2000623212149735648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 15, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 32-year-old native of Sweden has 11 goals and 14 assists over 33 games with Rangers in 2025-26, his 10th season with the franchise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Zibanejad is in the fourth season of an eight-year, $68 million contract, featuring an average annual value of $8.5 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Rangers currently sit second last in the Metropolitan Division with a 16-13-4 record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sullivan noted Zibanejad will return to the lineup on Tuesday when the Rangers welcome the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vancouver-canucks\/23\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vancouver-canucks\/23\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a> to Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Rangers veteran forward Mika Zibanejad will be a healthy scratch for Monday\u2019s game against the visiting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,6013,53002,51214],"class_list":["post-96703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-apple-news","tag-mika-zibanejad-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8476459","tag-new-york-rangers-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96703","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=96703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}