{"id":479876,"date":"2025-12-30T11:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T11:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/479876\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T11:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T11:01:10","slug":"snapshots-toninato-lundestrom-barzal-eichel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/479876\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapshots: Toninato, Lundestrom, Barzal, Eichel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Blackhawks <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/blackhawks\/news\/release-blackhawks-assign-dominic-toninato-to-rockford\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> that they\u2019ve assigned center <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/tonindo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-29_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dominic Toninato<\/a><\/strong> back to AHL Rockford.\u00a0 Recalled three weeks ago, the 31-year-old got into five games with Chicago while on recall, picking up an assist and ten hits in 9:12 per game of playing time.\u00a0 Toninato has been much more productive with the IceHogs, notching five goals and 12 assists in 24 games with them.\u00a0 With his assignment, the Blackhawks now have an open roster spot.\u00a0 Don\u2019t expect that spot to go to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bedarco01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-29_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Connor Bedard<\/a><\/strong>, however, as while he returned to the ice today <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/blackhawks\/2025\/12\/29\/blackhawks-connor-bedard-skating-jeff-blashill-speech-jason-dickinson-learning\" rel=\"noopener\">per Ben Pope of the Chicago Sun-Times<\/a>, it was a light skate and there remains no firm timetable for his return.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere around the NHL:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Blue Jackets center <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lundeis01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-29_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Isac Lundestrom<\/a><\/strong> is expected to miss a week or two with a lower-body injury sustained in practice over the weekend, reports Aaron Portzline of The Athletic (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Aportzline\/status\/2005775911115973080\">Twitter link<\/a>). The 26-year-old is in his first season with Columbus and has been rather quiet offensively, scoring just once while adding four assists in 35 games although he does take a regular turn on the penalty kill.<\/li>\n<li>Islanders center <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/barzama01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-29_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mathew Barzal<\/a><\/strong> is a little lighter in the wallet today. The league <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/mathew-barzal-fined-for-slashing-mason-marchment\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> that he has received a $5K fine for his slash on Columbus winger <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/marchma01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-29_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mason Marchment<\/a><\/strong> in the second period of Sunday\u2019s game.\u00a0 Barzal received a five-minute major penalty and a game misconduct on the play.\u00a0 The fine, which is the maximum allowable under the CBA, goes to the Players\u2019 Emergency Assistance Fund.<\/li>\n<li>Golden Knights center <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/e\/eicheja01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-29_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jack Eichel<\/a><\/strong> took part in today\u2019s morning skate in a non-contact jersey, relays Fox 5 Vegas\u2019 Vince Sapienza (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/VinceSapienza\/status\/2005716082968125900\">Twitter link<\/a>). While he has been ruled out for tonight\u2019s game versus Minnesota, he could return Wednesday against Nashville.\u00a0 Eichel has missed the last two weeks due to both an illness and a lower-body injury.\u00a0 Despite missing that much time, he remains the team leader in scoring with 12 goals and 29 assists in 41 games.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blackhawks announced that they\u2019ve assigned center Dominic Toninato back to AHL Rockford.\u00a0 Recalled three weeks ago, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":479877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[10490,291,3110,4241,217437,32158,169448,1301,293,21208,62,67,132,68,3116],"class_list":{"0":"post-479876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ahl","9":"tag-chicago-blackhawks","10":"tag-columbus-blue-jackets","11":"tag-dominic-toninato","12":"tag-isac-lundestrom","13":"tag-jack-eichel","14":"tag-mathew-barzal","15":"tag-new-york-islanders","16":"tag-nhl","17":"tag-snapshots","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-vegas-golden-knights"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115808179725095186","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479876","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=479876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}