{"id":897739,"date":"2026-10-28T17:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/897739\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T17:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T17:00:12","slug":"national-rumors-persist-about-rickard-rakell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/897739\/","title":{"rendered":"National rumors persist about Rickard Rakell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Age: 33<br \/>Position: RW<br \/>Contract term: 2028 UFA<br \/>Cap hit: $5 million<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">No stranger to the Big Board in the past few years, Rakell may finally be in his final months with a Penguins team slowly transitioning to a younger group. He\u2019s delivered an outsized amount of production on a reasonable contract, but it\u2019s been a slow start for both player and team. Still, Rakell is an above-average finisher who has a history of holding his own when playing alongside highly skilled linemates. He\u2019s scored at a 29-goal-per-82-game pace across the last four seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Age: 33Position: RWContract term: 2028 UFACap hit: $5 million No stranger to the Big Board in the past&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,4533,99],"class_list":["post-897739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-rumors","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897739","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=897739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}