{"id":476228,"date":"2026-02-13T00:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T00:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/476228\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T00:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T00:55:07","slug":"morrissey-leaves-canada-victory-against-czechia-with-undisclosed-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/476228\/","title":{"rendered":"Morrissey leaves Canada victory against Czechia with undisclosed injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

MILAN — Josh Morrissey<\/a> went to Team Canada’s dressing room with an undisclosed injury early in the second period and did not return during a 5-0 win against Team Czechia<\/a> in the Group A opening game for each team at the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 at Santagiulia Arena on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Canada coach Jon Cooper did not have an update on the status of the Winnipeg Jets defenseman after the game.<\/p>\n

Cooper hadn’t yet returned to Canada’s dressing room when he addressed the media in the mixed zone.<\/p>\n

“The locker room is a long way away so we have no chance to see him,” Cooper said. “I haven’t been back.”<\/p>\n

Canada was still able to use three defense pairs because teams are allowed to dress 20 skaters; Canada had Thomas Harley<\/a> in the lineup and the Dallas Stars defenseman played 20:35 with Morrissey limited to 7:10 of ice time.<\/p>\n

Canada’s next game is against Team Switzerland on Friday (3:10 p.m. ET; Peacock, ICI T\u00e9l\u00e9, CBC Gem, RDS2, CBC). Travis Sanheim, who was a healthy scratch Thursday, could enter the lineup if Morrissey is unable to play.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t see what happened, but I hope he’s all right, obviously,” Canada captain Sidney Crosby<\/a> said. “That’s difficult. We all want to be out there on the ice. Just hoping he’s all right.”<\/p>\n

Morrissey has 42 points (10 goals, 32 assists) in 56 games with the Jets this season.<\/p>\n

He also played for Canada in the 4 Nations Face-Off last year, but an illness prevented him from suiting up for the final game, a 3-2 overtime win against Team USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILAN — Josh Morrissey went to Team Canada’s dressing room with an undisclosed injury early in the second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-476228","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\/476228","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=476228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}