{"id":488874,"date":"2026-02-18T23:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/488874\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T23:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:22:07","slug":"swedens-victor-hedman-misses-qf-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/488874\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden&#8217;s Victor Hedman misses QF with injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"sn-player-post-link\" data-player=\"434956c9-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/victor-hedman\/434956c9-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Victor Hedman<\/a> dressed for Sweden&#8217;s quarterfinal game against the United States but did not play due to an injury.<\/p>\n<p>Team Sweden says Hedman suffered a lower-body injury in warm-ups and will be re-evaluated after the game.<\/p>\n<p>Sweden ultimately lost the game 2-1 in overtime, ending their chance for a medal.<\/p>\n<p>The six-time Norris finalist was a workhorse so far in the Olympics, with the fourth-highest average ice time among Swedish blueliners at 18:42 through the first three games. He also has a goal and an assist in the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victor Hedman dressed for Sweden&#8217;s quarterfinal game against the United States but did not play due to an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-488874","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\/488874","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=488874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}