In a press conference this week, Flyers general manager Danny Briere said that right-shot defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen will not be ready to start the 2025-26 NHL season. To recap: Ristolainen played his final game of the season on March 11, just after the trade deadline, and about a month later underwent surgery to repair his triceps tendon. After the surgery, he was given a six month recovery timeline, which would have him returning to NHL action at some point in October at the earliest.
Briere said Ristolainen will meet up with the team in six to eight weeks into the season, so the good news is that Ristolainen is more or less on pace with the initial recovery timeline, if you add a few weeks to the initial six months for him to get into game shape after an offseason of recovery.