{"id":478372,"date":"2026-02-14T00:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/478372\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T00:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:05:07","slug":"switzerlands-kevin-fiala-stretchered-off-against-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/478372\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland’s Kevin Fiala stretchered off against Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

Switzerland forward Kevin Fiala<\/a> had to be stretchered off the ice late in Friday’s game against Canada at the Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n

Fiala went down along the boards in the Canadian end with 2:50 remaining in the third period after getting his legs tangled up with Tom Wilson. It appeared that Wilson landed on Fiala’s left leg.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Kings<\/a> winger stayed down as play was called dead and training staff were brought onto the ice. The 29-year-old was placed on a stretcher on his stomach and taken off the ice as both teams came off their benches to support Fiala as he left the game.<\/p>\n

Swiss head coach Patrick Fischer told reporters<\/a> after the game that Fiala was taken to hospital, but had no further update on his status. <\/p>\n

Fiala had logged 20:04 of ice time in what ended as a 5-1 Swiss loss to the Canadians. In Switzerland’s tournament-opening 4-0 win over France on Thursday, Fiala recorded an assist for his first career Olympic point.<\/p>\n

Switzerland returns to the ice on Sunday against Group A opponent Czechia.<\/p>\n

A native of St. Gallen, Fiala has been a consistent presence on Switzerland’s national teams throughout his career. The 11th-overall pick in the 2014 draft, Fiala has suited up for his country at the World Championships on seven separate occasions.<\/p>\n

Fiala’s NHL team in Los Angeles will undoubtedly be tracking his status closely, as the Kings currently sit three points out of a wild-card spot in the Western Conference. <\/p>\n

In 56 games for the Kings this season, Fiala has 18 goals and 22 assists \u2014 tracking for his seventh consecutive campaign with 20 or more goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Switzerland forward Kevin Fiala had to be stretchered off the ice late in Friday’s game against Canada at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-478372","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\/478372","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=478372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}