{"id":225181,"date":"2025-10-19T18:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T18:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/225181\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T18:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T18:53:07","slug":"vancouver-canucks-forwards-filip-chytil-jonathan-lekkerimaki-wont-return-vs-capitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/225181\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Canucks forwards Filip Chytil, Jonathan Lekkerimaki won\u2019t return vs. Capitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">At the start of the second period against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/washington-capitals\/15\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/washington-capitals\/15\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Capitals<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vancouver-canucks\/23\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vancouver-canucks\/23\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a> announced that forwards <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/filip-chytil\/8480078\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/filip-chytil\/8480078\" target=\"_blank\">Filip Chytil<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jonathan-lekkerimaki\/8483476\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jonathan-lekkerimaki\/8483476\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Lekkerimaki<\/a> had both been ruled out and wouldn\u2019t return to Sunday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Forwards Filip Chytil and Jonathan Lekkerim\u00e4ki will not return to today\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vancouver Canucks (@Canucks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Canucks\/status\/1979966710057766918?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 19, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Chytil was injured after a high hit by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/tom-wilson\/8476880\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/tom-wilson\/8476880\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Wilson<\/a> at centre ice. After review, there was no penalty on the play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 26-year-old has suffered multiple concussions in his career, including one late last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As for Lekkerimaki, it is unclear what caused the injury. In the first period, he recorded just over four minutes of ice time and logged a hit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lekkerim\u00e4ki drew into the lineup after it was announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/brock-boeser\/8478444\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/brock-boeser\/8478444\" target=\"_blank\">Brock Boeser<\/a> would miss Sunday\u2019s matchup due to personal reasons.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the start of the second period against the Washington Capitals, the Vancouver Canucks announced that forwards Filip&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,49,48,448,82,83915],"class_list":["post-225181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-vancouver-canucks-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-23"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}