{"id":252272,"date":"2025-10-26T07:58:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T07:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/252272\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T07:58:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T07:58:06","slug":"penguins-rakell-injured-team-holds-its-breath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/252272\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins Rakell Injured; Team Holds Its Breath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early in the third period, <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/pittsburgh-penguins\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> winger <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/rickard-rakell\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rickard Rakell<\/a> suffered an upper-body injury and left the game. <\/p>\n<p>He was hit by a hard shot and appeared to suffer a left arm or wrist injury at 4:54 of the third. It was his final shift of the game. <\/p>\n<p>Following the game, coach <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/dan-muse\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Muse<\/a> indicated Rakell was being evaluated for an upper-body injury, but didn\u2019t have any more details or specifics. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s upper body. We\u2019re still waiting for some more information, still being evaluated,\u201d Muse said. \u201cSo I\u2019ll provide updates when we have them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rakell, 32, has eight points, including three goals (3-5-8) in nine games this season and is a plus-1. Last season, he set a career-high with 35 goals. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt sort of had a trickle down effect there throughout the lines. I mean, guys realized the lines might be different or things might be switched up a bit, so I thought we handled it well,\u201d said Rakell\u2019s frequent center Sidney Crosby. \u201cWe had a good push there to get ourselves back in it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins rotated <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/evgeni-malkin\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Evgeni Malkin<\/a> and Filip Hallander through the top line in Rakell\u2019s absence. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/pittsburgh-penguins\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/rickard-rakell\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Rickard Rakell<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"categories\">Categorized: <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/category\/penguins-news\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Penguins News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Early in the third period, Pittsburgh Penguins winger Rickard Rakell suffered an upper-body injury and left the game.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,1790,5864,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-252272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","10":"tag-rickard-rakell","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252272","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=252272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}