{"id":44581,"date":"2025-11-19T08:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/44581\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T08:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:06:08","slug":"islanders-patrick-roy-eviscerates-mikko-rantanen-for-vicious-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/44581\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders’ Patrick Roy eviscerates Mikko Rantanen for vicious hit"},"content":{"rendered":"

DALLAS \u2014 The Islanders were left shaken by Mikko Rantanen\u2019s hit on Alexander Romanov that appeared to cause the defenseman serious injury with 27.3 seconds to go in their 3-2 win over the Stars<\/a> on Tuesday night, and Patrick Roy blasted the Finn for a move he saw as \u201cdisrespectful to our guys.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

With Romanov\u2019s numbers facing him and both players going full steam toward the end boards, Rantanen pushed Romanov hard into the glass. Romanov, whose head appeared to hit the boards first, went down in a heap and needed help off the ice. <\/p>\n

An Islanders spokesman said Romanov did not need to be taken off-site for treatment, but otherwise there was no further update on his status.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rantanen was assessed a five-minute boarding major and a 10-minute game misconduct. <\/p>\n

As he went down the tunnel, Roy exchanged words with him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"DallasDallas right wing Mikko Rantanen (96) is called for a game misconduct penalty for boarding on defenseman Alexander Romanov (28) late in the third period of the Islanders\u2019 3-2 road win over the Stars on Nov. 18, 2025. Jerome Miron-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope he\u2019s gonna be OK at this moment,\u201d Roy said. \u201cI don\u2019t know exactly what it is. All I\u2019m gonna say is, when you see the number, you have to lay off. Everybody knows that. You don\u2019t go through the guy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I\u2019m proud [of] the way that our guys handled it afterwards. No one was happy to see someone get hurt like this. To me, it\u2019s disrespectful to our guys.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Stars coach Glen Gulutzan spoke in defense of Rantanen, saying his skates were clipped by Scott Mayfield, causing him to come into Romanov off-balance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve seen Rants play enough over the last 10 years that it\u2019s just one of those hockey plays that happens,\u201d Gulutzan said. \u201cI hope Romanov is OK.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"DallasMikko Rantanen (96) is called for a game misconduct penalty for boarding on Alexander Romanov (28) during the third period of the Islanders\u2019 3-2 road win over the Stars. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n

Roy, who was coaching the Avalanche when Rantanen was drafted there, did say that such a play was unlike him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s not his style. At the same time, that should not be a part of our game,\u201d Roy said. \u201cThat should not be a part of our game.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite a gutty win that snapped a five-game Stars winning streak and brought the Islanders to 5-1-0 through six games of this road trip, the mood in the dressing room had a somber tone.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOn the ice from Long Island\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\tThank you\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\u201cYou put yourself in my shoes. Whenever your friend gets hurt on the ice, it\u2019s way more important than hockey me,\u201d Jean-Gabriel Pageau said. \u201cAnd obviously, we get two points, we\u2019re happy about that. Everyone, I think, our first concern was Rommy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Romanov missed five games earlier this season with an upper-body injury, during which the Islanders called up Marshall Warren to fill in. It would not be surprising if Warren joined the team again for Thursday\u2019s game in Detroit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

David Rittich started in net, despite Ilya Sorokin being the hot hand, and stopped 22 of 24 shots. Roy said the Islanders are prioritizing keeping both goalies fresh over riding Sorokin.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Simon Holmstrom was out with illness, and Maxim Tsyplakov drew into the lineup in his place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS \u2014 The Islanders were left shaken by Mikko Rantanen\u2019s hit on Alexander Romanov that appeared to cause…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25519,9,11,6821,10,539,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-44581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-dallas-stars","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-islanders","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}