{"id":445759,"date":"2026-01-29T19:23:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T19:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/445759\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T19:23:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T19:23:34","slug":"capitals-logan-thompson-dealing-with-injury-ahead-of-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/445759\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitals&#8217; Logan Thompson dealing with injury ahead of Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of Team Canada&#8217;s goalies is dealing with an injury ahead of the Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/logan-thompson\/39865351-af7a-419c-8db6-5b270c2dd3ec\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"39865351-af7a-419c-8db6-5b270c2dd3ec\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Logan Thompson<\/a> is day-to-day with an upper-body injury, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/washington-capitals\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"washington-capitals\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Washington Capitals<\/a> head coach Spencer Carbery <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BaileyAJohnson_\/status\/2016921078635913569\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BaileyAJohnson_\/status\/2016921078635913569\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">announced Thursday<\/a>. Thompson will not dress for Washington&#8217;s game against the Detroit Red Wings, with Clay Stevenson recalled from the AHL to back up Charlie Lindgren.<\/p>\n<p>Carbery said Thompson was injured when he was hit in the mask by a puck in Tuesday&#8217;s loss to the Seattle Kraken, although he did stay in that game.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson, a Calgary native, is one of three goalies set to represent Canada at the Milano-Cortina Olympics next month. Jordan Binnington and Darcy Kuemper are the others.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson has an 18-16-4 record with a .912 save percentage and two shutouts this season.<\/p>\n<p>The NHL season will pause for the Olympics after games on Feb. 5. Team Canada opens the tournament on Feb. 12 against Czechia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of Team Canada&#8217;s goalies is dealing with an injury ahead of the Winter Olympics. Logan Thompson is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-445759","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\/445759","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=445759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}