{"id":386126,"date":"2026-01-02T04:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/386126\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T04:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:44:07","slug":"islanders-bo-horvat-to-be-evaluated-for-lower-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/386126\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders&#8217; Bo Horvat to be evaluated for lower-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"dab46111-bd72-868c-eff2-340e3cfc4d62\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/nyi\/new-york-islanders\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Islanders<\/a> center <a data-player-guid=\"b60e2a83-8a4d-9e7d-e98d-582bc620c326\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3042002\/bo-horvat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bo Horvat<\/a> will be evaluated by a doctor Friday after leaving Thursday&#8217;s game because of an undisclosed lower-body injury, coach Patrick Roy said.<\/p>\n<p>Horvat left with 12 minutes remaining in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/recap\/_\/gameId\/401802984\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">7-2 home loss<\/a> to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"f7e8115e-e00b-315d-8018-d2b38e4f420a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/utah\/utah-mammoth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Utah Mammoth<\/a> after getting tangled up with Utah defenseman <a data-player-guid=\"047bfeb7-0ad0-918b-d084-4b3907bc533a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4378683\/sean-durzi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Durzi<\/a>. He had difficulty putting weight on his left leg as he left the ice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;ll see the doctor [Friday], and I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;ll have more [then] or the day after,&#8221; Roy told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Horvat was named to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/olympics\/story\/_\/id\/47463915\/macklin-celebrini-makes-star-studded-team-canada-roster-olympics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canada&#8217;s roster<\/a> for the upcoming Milan Olympics. He missed five games in December because of injury but is the Islanders&#8217; leading scorer with 33 points, and his 21 goals are nine more than his next-closest teammate.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK &#8212; Islanders center Bo Horvat will be evaluated by a doctor Friday after leaving Thursday&#8217;s game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-386126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}