{"id":239892,"date":"2025-10-21T01:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T01:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/239892\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T01:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T01:21:08","slug":"central-notes-hague-duchene-foligno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/239892\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Notes: Hague, Duchene, Foligno"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Nashville Predators were dealt a blow in the preseason when defenseman Nicolas Hague<\/a> suffered an upper-body injury<\/a>, but the team has adapted well to his absence. The club is off to a solid 2-2-2 start, a notable improvement from where they began last year, and now they\u2019re set to get Hague back from his injury. The Tennessean\u2019s Alex Daugherty noted today<\/a> that it\u2019s been four weeks since Hague was originally ruled out and prescribed a four-to-six week recovery timeline, and he added that one shouldn\u2019t be surprised if Hague returns to the lineup at some point this week. Later in the day, Daugherty reported<\/a> that Hague was on the ice for the Predators\u2019 practice, further underscoring the likelihood that his return is coming sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n

Hague was first seen back on the ice on Oct. 11, per team reporter Brooks Bratten<\/a>, for an optional morning skate. He was originally injured during the team\u2019s second preseason game against the Florida Panthers. At that time, Hague was paired<\/a> with team captain Roman Josi<\/a> on the club\u2019s first pairing. Josi was paired with Adam Wilsby<\/a> during the team\u2019s most recent game, and Hague could end up claiming that spot back from Wilsby when he\u2019s ready to make his Nashville debut. The 6\u20196 blueliner has played in 364 career NHL games and won the Stanley Cup with the Vegas Golden Knights in 2023. Nashville acquired him<\/a> (and a conditional 2027 third-round draft choice) in June, sending Colton Sissons<\/a> and Jeremy Lauzon<\/a> to Vegas in return.<\/p>\n

Other notes from the Central Division:<\/p>\n

Dallas Stars forward Matt Duchene<\/a> missed the team\u2019s practice today, reports the Dallas Morning News\u2019 Lia Assimakopoulos<\/a>. Stars head coach Glen Gulutzan expressed confidence that Duchene would be able to play tomorrow when the Stars host Duchene\u2019s former team, the Columbus Blue Jackets, but added that Duchene has been battling an upper-body injury suffered last week. Duchene is one of the Stars\u2019 key offensive producers; he led them in scoring last season with 82 points in 82 games.
\nChicago Blackhawks captain Nick Foligno<\/a> returned to practice today after stepping away to tend to a personal matter, reports NBC Sports Chicago\u2019s Charlie Roumeliotis<\/a>. Foligno\u2019s leadership has helped the Blackhawks to a surprisingly strong start to their season. The team, which was projected by many media outlets to be among the NHL\u2019s worst for 2025-26, has gone 3-2-2 to start the season, good for 13th in league standings. Foligno has been a core veteran for the club since arriving in 2023, scoring at least 15 goals and 35 points in each of his two seasons there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nashville Predators were dealt a blow in the preseason when defenseman Nicolas Hague suffered an upper-body injury,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[4824,4825,121515,4826,385,132378,93846,99],"class_list":["post-239892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-chicago-blackhawks","tag-dallas-stars","tag-matt-duchene","tag-nashville-predators","tag-nhl","tag-nick-foligno","tag-nicolas-hague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}