{"id":38818,"date":"2018-12-09T22:30:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T03:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=38818"},"modified":"2018-12-09T22:30:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T03:30:57","slug":"antti-raanta-out-indefinitely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/12\/09\/antti-raanta-out-indefinitely\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Coyotes Antti Raanta Out Indefinitely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/coyotes\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arizona Coyotes<\/a> announced today that goaltender <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/raantan01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Antti Raanta<\/a><\/strong> is out\u00a0indefinitely as a result of further investigations into his upper body injury. Raanta may miss the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Coyotes GM John Chayka confirms there\u2019s a chance that the team won\u2019t see Antti Raanta for the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Catherine Silverman (@catmsilverman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/catmsilverman\/status\/1071918203972939777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 10, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/raantan01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Antti Raanta<\/a> Injury Becomes More Serious<\/h1>\n<p>Raanta has not suited up since November when he received the<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/11\/29\/arizona-coyotes-antti-raanta-suffers-bone-bruise-calvin-pickard-claimed\/\" target=\"_self\"> injury against the<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/wild\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minnesota\u00a0Wild<\/a>. It&#8217;s unclear how this injury occurred\u00a0but may have been a part of an ongoing issue.<\/p>\n<p>Because of this, the top Coyotes\u00a0goaltender has only played 12 games this season. Achieving a .906 save percentage and 2.88 goals-against average in these games.\u00a0 Showing to be a capable back-up, great things were expected from the Finnish native as he made the step up. However has been plagued with injuries since.<\/p>\n<p>Over his six-year NHL career, Raanta showed potential when playing for the\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/blackhawks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> and under <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lundqhe01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Henrik Lundqvist<\/a><\/strong> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/rangers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Rangers.<\/a> He achieved a .920SV% and 2.34 GAA in 153 career games. And originally joined the Blackhawks undrafted in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>When questioned regarding Raanta injury, General Managed <strong>John Chayka<\/strong> stated<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/arizona-coyotes-goalie-antti-raanta-out-indefinitely\/c-302773730\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> &#8220;The good news is that it was a great repair and his long-term health is in great standing,&#8221; <\/a>Chayka continued to say <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/arizona-coyotes-goalie-antti-raanta-out-indefinitely\/c-302773730\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;The recovery will be a little longer than we had hoped or expected, but at the same time, again, he has the ability to preserve his long-term health. That&#8217;s the main thing, and we&#8217;ve been able to do that.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p>This news enhanced Arizona&#8217;s\u00a0 Goaltender woes, as backup goalie\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kuempda01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Darcy Kuemper<\/a><\/strong> continues to be injured also.\u00a0Rookie\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hillad01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adin Hill<\/a><\/strong> will remain\u00a0to start with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/pickaca01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Calvin Pickard<\/a><\/strong> serving as his backup.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Coyotes aimed to turn heads this year, they are currently second bottom in the Pacific Division with a 13-13-2 record. However, there is still time to make an impact,\u00a0but Raanta&#8217;s prolonged injury does put added pressure on the rookie goaltender.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"K6c-DM3uS-tN5axleSOT6g\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1059190546\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'K6c-DM3uS-tN5axleSOT6g',sig:'n7q_XlwG6nqCutZ-yi8mVV5sRRi1X1-t68yrhJoHtQI=',w:'594px',h:'394px',items:'1059190546',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona Coyotes announced that top goaltender Antti Raanta is currently out indefinitely and may miss the rest of the season due to an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2344,"featured_media":38825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,34],"tags":[966,107,1199,246,372,48],"class_list":["post-38818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mammoth","category-news","tag-antti-raanta","tag-arizona-coyotes","tag-calvin-pickard","tag-chicago-blackhawks","tag-henrik-lundqvist","tag-new-york-rangers"],"modified_by":"Alex Metzger, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}