The Penguins' already stacked forward group could be getting even deeper with potential options. Filip Hallander lost most of the 2025-26 season due to a puck strike causing a blood clot in his leg. A translated Swedish interview (shoutout Reddit) gives an update for how he's doing, ****** led "Hållander on the tough year: "I thought I'd be doing something else". We ran it through a google translator so we won't take every word for gospel, but one can kind of get the general point.
First, he suffered a blood clot in his leg. Then, something was discovered in one of his lungs. Now, Filip Hållander is back on the ice and opening up about the tough year he endured.
"Right then and there, I just felt: 'Damn, maybe there won't be any more hockey for me?'" he tells ST. Filip Hållander is back home training with Timrå IK, following a difficult season in the US with the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Filip Hållander suffered a blood clot In November 2025, he received the news that he had a blood clot in his leg. He returned in February but managed only a few games in the AHL before being sidelined again.
"I played a few games and picked up some minor issues. We ran some new tests as a precaution. Some of the readings weren't quite right, and they wanted to play it safe. So, I went back to Pittsburgh for more tests, and that's when we found something in my lung," says Hållander.

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