{"id":482727,"date":"2026-02-16T01:47:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T01:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/482727\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T01:47:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T01:47:06","slug":"kings-kevin-fiala-out-for-season-after-injury-against-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/482727\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings’ Kevin Fiala out for season after injury against Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kevin Fiala<\/a> is out for the remainder of the 2025-26 season after the Swiss forward suffered a fracture in his left lower leg against Canada at the Olympics, the Kings announced<\/a> Sunday.<\/p>\n

Per the team, Fiala has undergone surgery and “will be reevaluated at the conclusion of the regular season.”<\/p>\n

The Kings winger 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

He 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\u00a0told reporters<\/a>\u00a0after the game that Fiala was taken to the hospital.<\/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

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 championship on seven separate occasions.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Fiala is out for the remainder of the 2025-26 season after the Swiss forward suffered a fracture…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-482727","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\/482727","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=482727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}