{"id":131234,"date":"2026-01-21T01:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/131234\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T01:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:39:11","slug":"dallas-stars-without-mikko-rantanen-illness-in-matchup-vs-boston-bruins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/131234\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Stars without Mikko Rantanen (illness) in matchup vs. Boston Bruins"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the Stars<\/a> attempt to right the ship and get things back on track, they\u2019ll have a much harder time of it on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Prior to the evening\u2019s matchup against the Boston Bruins<\/a>, Dallas Stars PR announced that forward Mikko Rantanen, the team\u2019s leader in points this season, will be out on Tuesday due to illness. <\/p>\n

The Stars have lost three straight games and 10 of their last 12 in what\u2019s easily been the team\u2019s worst stretch of the season. Snapping that skid against the 28-19-2 Bruins wasn\u2019t going to be easy to begin with, but now they\u2019ll have to do it down an offensive focal point.<\/p>\n

Rantanen leads the team with 63 points in 2025-26 (19 goals, 44 assists). He also plays more than any other Dallas forward other than Wyatt Johnston, Glen Gulutzan and the Stars needing to fill in Rantanen\u2019s usual 20-plus minutes on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s only the second game this season the Stars will be without Rantanen, the other due to a one-game suspension issued by the NFL<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Boston<\/a><\/p>\n

Dallas has dropped 10 of its last 12 games, while Boston enters the matchup on a six-game winning streak.<\/p>\n

\"Dallas<\/a><\/p>\n

Robertson will be a restricted free agent this offseason.<\/p>\n

\"Dallas<\/a><\/p>\n

Bichsel skated with the team Monday for the first time since November.<\/p>\n

Find more Stars coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Stars attempt to right the ship and get things back on track, they\u2019ll have a much…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,1115,3626,2486],"class_list":["post-131234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-stars","tag-mikko-rantanen","tag-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}