Flyers’ Rodrigo Abols leaves game vs. Rangers with lower-body injury
Philadelphia Flyers forward Rodrigo Abols left Saturday’s game against the New York Rangers with a lower-body injury and will not return, according to a Flyers media release.
Abols, 30, played just two shifts in the first period of Saturday’s game, for a total of 1:19 of ice time, before colliding with Rangers forward Gabe Perreault and falling awkwardly to the ice along the boards in the Flyers’ offensive zone. He appeared to be favoring his right leg as he was helped off the ice.
In 42 games with the Flyers this season, Abols has collected three goals and 10 points. The 6’4″ forward is under contract through the end of the 2025-26 season at an $800,000 NHL cap hit.
Rodrigo Abols (lower-body) will not return after this…
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A product of Riga, Latvia, Abols has already been selected to represent his home country next month at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan, Italy. He previously played for Team Latvia at the 2022 Olympics, as well as at eight previous IIHF World Championships.
The Vancouver Canucks originally selected Abols in the seventh round (No. 184 overall) of the 2016 NHL Draft. He spent his junior career with the WHL’s Portland Winterhawks and QMJHL’s Acadie-Bathurst Titan but did not sign with the Canucks before embarking upon a journeyman pro career through the Swedish ranks, with a brief pit stop in the Florida Panthers‘ farm system for the 2019-20 season.
Abols returned to North America with the Flyers in 2024, signing a one-year, $775,000 contract with the club for the 2024-25 season. He split that campaign between Philadelphia and the AHL’s Lehigh Valley Phantoms, skating in his first 22 games with the Flyers and appearing 47 more in the AHL, and signed a one-year extension with the Flyers in May 2025.
The Flyers trailed the Rangers by a 3-1 score after one period of play at the Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia on Saturday afternoon. Flyers goaltender Alexei Kolosov allowed three goals on the first three shots he faced in the game before being pulled in favor of Samuel Ersson.