FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – The hits keep coming.
Adding to the Florida Panthers’ long list of injured players, Anton Randle will be out for an extended period with a rib injury, head coach Paul Maurice announced Wednesday.
“The results of the MRI scan were not very good, so for now we don’t think he will die in the near future,” Maurice said.
Lundell last played on March 19 in a 4-0 win over Edmonton.
“I wouldn’t play him in the regular season or if we were competing (for a spot),” Morris said. “In the playoffs, we’ll probably play him with that, but he won’t come back until the pain is 100 percent gone.”
Filling in for top-line center Aleksander Barkov, who has yet to play this season after undergoing surgery to repair ACL and MCL injuries in September, Lundell scored 44 points (18 G, 26 A) in 64 games and won a team-high 580 faceoffs.
Randle, just 24 years old, was a first-round pick in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft, accumulating 201 points (78 G, 123 A) in 359 regular season games and 46 points (12 G, 34 A) in 77 career playoff games before helping the University of Florida win the Stanley Cup in 2024 and 2025.
“We don’t know how these symptoms will go away,” Maurice said.
In addition to Randell, Maurice had two other updates.
Sam Reinhart, the Panthers’ leading scorer with 61 points (29G, 32A), has missed the last five games with an undisclosed injury, but underwent an MRI this morning to evaluate the injury.
“I’ll have it ready today,” Maurice said.
Meanwhile, Macky Samoskevic missed the last two games with a tear in the back of his neck and could return to Florida’s lineup as early as Thursday against the Minnesota Wild.
“It depends on how he feels and how he gets through today,” Maurice said.
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