{"id":464595,"date":"2026-02-07T14:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T14:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/464595\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T14:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T14:53:08","slug":"zacha-out-for-team-czechia-at-olympics-with-upper-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/464595\/","title":{"rendered":"Zacha out for Team Czechia at Olympics with upper-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/pavel-zacha-8478401\" title=\"Pavel Zacha\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pavel Zacha<\/a> will not play for Team Czechia in the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 because of an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Boston Bruins forward will be replaced by forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/filip-chlapik-8478488\" title=\"Filip Chlapik\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Filip Chlapik<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Zacha has not played since Jan. 29, when he left in the second period of a 6-3 win against the Philadelphia Flyers. Bruins coach Marco Sturm said the injury wasn\u2019t serious enough to impact Zacha\u2019s ability to play at the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old has 37 points (15 goals, 22 assists) in 54 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>Chlapik was a second-round pick (No. 48) by the Ottawa Senators at the 2015 NHL Draft. He last played in the League during the 2020-21 season, when he was held off the score sheet in one game for the Senators. He had 11 points (five goals, six assists) in 57 games for Ottawa over four seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Chlapik, 28, is in his third season with Sparta Praha in the Czech Extraliga, where he has 45 points (19 goals, 26 assists) in 45 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>Team Czechia plays its first game of the tournament against Team Canada on Feb. 12 (10:30 a.m. ET; Peacock, USA, CBC Gem, CBC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pavel Zacha will not play for Team Czechia in the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 because of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-464595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464595","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=464595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}