{"id":239964,"date":"2025-10-21T02:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T02:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/239964\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T02:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T02:08:08","slug":"east-notes-rangers-mikkola-malenstyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/239964\/","title":{"rendered":"East Notes: Rangers, Mikkola, Malenstyn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier today, Rangers Head Coach Mike Sullivan<\/a> told Mollie Walker of the New York Post<\/a> that Vincent Trocheck<\/a> is still not skating. Although they sit in the middle of the pack at .500, it has not been the smoothest of starts for New York, in a year where the group faces real pressure to turn the corner from a turbulent 2024-25.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trocheck appeared in the Rangers\u2019 first two games before being injured vs Buffalo. Earlier it had been announced<\/a> that the forward is week-to-week. Despite now being 32, Trocheck has been very reliable, being an 82-game player in his first three seasons in New York. Now the team hopes to have their vital center back soon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

More injury news has come out of New York, as Colin Stephenson of Newsday confirmed that<\/a> Noah Laba<\/a> left tonight\u2019s game vs Minnesota after taking a puck to the face. The rookie forward was helped off the ice, however, Stephenson went on to update<\/a> that Laba has returned to the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Elsewhere across the league:<\/p>\n

David Dwork of The Hockey News noted earlier today<\/a> that Panthers defenseman Niko Mikkola<\/a> has returned to practice. Mikkola left Saturday\u2019s game in Buffalo with an upper-body injury. The wear-and-tear of back to back Stanley Cups is certainly a possibility this year, for a Panthers group which has lost four straight games, already sorely missing Aleksander Barkov<\/a> and Matthew Tkachuk<\/a>. Thankfully Mikkola appears ready to help the team get back on track.
\nThe Buffalo Sabres announced today<\/a> that forward Beck Malenstyn<\/a> will be absent for the next few days due to a personal matter. The team did not elaborate, however, Head Coach Lindy Ruff<\/a>\u2019s comments suggest it is likely due to paternity leave. 26-year-old Josh Dunne<\/a>, an organizational depth forward, has drawn into the Sabres lineup in place of Malenstyn.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier today, Rangers Head Coach Mike Sullivan told Mollie Walker of the New York Post that Vincent Trocheck…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[132403,1809,4820,10156,4823,385,130454,132404,99,51064],"class_list":["post-239964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-beck-malenstyn","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-florida-panthers","tag-injury","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-niko-mikkola","tag-noah-laba","tag-sports","tag-vincent-trocheck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239964","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=239964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}