{"id":396092,"date":"2025-11-22T03:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T03:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/396092\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T03:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T03:51:12","slug":"central-notes-burakovsky-rantanen-predators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/396092\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Notes: Burakovsky, Rantanen, Predators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blackhawks winger <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/burakan01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-21_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Andre Burakovsky<\/a><\/strong> suffered an undisclosed injury last night against Seattle and was quickly ruled out for tonight\u2019s game against Buffalo as well.\u00a0 However, it doesn\u2019t sound like he\u2019ll be out for too much longer.\u00a0 Head coach Jeff Blashill indicated to CHGO Sports pregame (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CHGO_Blackhawks\/status\/1992005162714763578\">Twitter link<\/a>) that the veteran is listed as day-to-day.\u00a0 Acquired from the Kraken over the offseason, the 30-year-old has rebounded quite well with his new team.\u00a0 He has seven goals and eight assists in 18 appearances so far, his best point-per-game mark since 2020-21 when he was with Colorado.\u00a0 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/slaggla01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-21_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Landon Slaggert<\/a><\/strong> returned to the lineup tonight to take Burakovsky\u2019s spot in the lineup.<\/p>\n<p>More from the Central:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>While Stars winger <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/rantami01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-21_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mikko Rantanen<\/a><\/strong> didn\u2019t receive any supplemental discipline for his hit on Islanders defenseman <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/romanal01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-21_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alexander Romanov<\/a><\/strong> earlier in the week, he is a little lighter in the wallet. Today, the league <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/mikko-rantanen-fined-for-diving-embellishment-by-nhl\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> that he has been fined $2K for his second citation of embellishment this season.\u00a0 The first instance came back on October 16th while the second was a week and a half ago against Ottawa.\u00a0 The fine money will go to the Players\u2019 Emergency Assistance Fund.<\/li>\n<li>With the Predators off to a tough start this season following a rough 2024-25 campaign, some have wondered if GM Barry Trotz, a long-time coach, might think about returning behind the bench if he wants to make a coaching change. Trotz poured cold water on that suggestion, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/sports\/nhl\/predators\/2025\/11\/21\/barry-trotz-nashville-predators-coach-andrew-brunette\/87393549007\/\" rel=\"noopener\">telling Alex Daugherty of The Tennessean<\/a> that there is a 0.0% chance he\u2019d return behind the bench on a full-time basis.\u00a0 Trotz took over as GM back in 2023 and while it used to be relatively common for someone to serve as head coach and GM, those days are long gone.\u00a0 Nashville has won just six of their 20 games so far in 2025-26 after recording only 68 points last season.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blackhawks winger Andre Burakovsky suffered an undisclosed injury last night against Seattle and was quickly ruled out for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":396093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[4829,187874,291,1320,71991,3111,293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-396092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-andre-burakovsky","9":"tag-barry-trotz","10":"tag-chicago-blackhawks","11":"tag-dallas-stars","12":"tag-mikko-rantanen","13":"tag-nashville-predators","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115591321078000576","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}