{"id":386966,"date":"2026-01-04T04:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T04:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/386966\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T04:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T04:54:07","slug":"washington-capitals-tom-wilson-questionable-to-return-with-lower-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/386966\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Capitals&#8217; Tom Wilson questionable to return with lower-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><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> power forward <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> departed Saturday\u2019s shootout loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/chicago-blackhawks\/16\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/chicago-blackhawks\/16\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> in the first period with a lower-body injury and wasn\u2019t able to return to action after being listed as questionable. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Following the game, head coach Spencer Carbery said the team will know more on Sunday, but added it \u201cdoesn\u2019t look too bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Capitals will know more tomorrow on Tom Wilson\u2019s status, but Spencer Carbery said it \u201cdoesn\u2019t look too bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bailey Johnson (@BaileyAJohnson_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BaileyAJohnson_\/status\/2007651416320692547?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 31-year-old Wilson, who was named to Canada\u2019s Olympic hockey team earlier this week, was injured when \u2018Hawks defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/connor-murphy\/8476473\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/connor-murphy\/8476473\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Murphy<\/a> threw a surprising hit on Wilson behind the Chicago net late in the first, causing Wilson to fall awkwardly on his right foot\/leg. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Wilson skated gingerly to the bench and needed help to get to the dressing room. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A native of Toronto, Wilson is on pace for a career season in 2025-26, scoring 22 goals and 20 assists over 41 games. His best season came last year when he netted 33 goals and 32 assists over 81 games. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Selected 16th overall in 2012, Wilson has spent his entire 13-year NHL career in Washington, recording 201 goals and 236 assists over 876 games. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Wilson helped the Caps win their first and only Stanley Cup in franchise history in 2018. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington Capitals power forward Tom Wilson departed Saturday\u2019s shootout loss to the Chicago Blackhawks in the first period&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[712,49,48,82,164346,113867],"class_list":["post-386966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tom-wilson-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8476880","tag-washington-capitals-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-15"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386966","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=386966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}