{"id":452132,"date":"2026-02-03T23:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T23:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/452132\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T23:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T23:26:08","slug":"canucks-chytil-unlikely-to-return-before-olympic-break-due-to-migraines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/452132\/","title":{"rendered":"Canucks&#8217; Chytil unlikely to return before Olympic break due to migraines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/vancouver-canucks\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"vancouver-canucks\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a> will be down a forward for their final game before the Olympic break. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/filip-chytil\/b428aa9b-d2dd-461f-9606-51ed00e1e165\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"b428aa9b-d2dd-461f-9606-51ed00e1e165\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Filip Chytil<\/a> is unlikely to play in the team&#8217;s game against the Vegas Golden Knights on Wednesday due to migraines, head coach Adam Foote <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/imacSportsnet\/status\/2018797911883321642?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">told reporters<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Chytil was absent from Tuesday&#8217;s practice after he was injured in Monday&#8217;s 6-2 loss to the Utah Mammoth.<\/p>\n<p>While the team initially didn&#8217;t give a reason for why Chytil left the game, Foote said post-game that the forward had &#8220;tweaked something.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When asked a follow-up if the injury was related to Chytill&#8217;s history with concussions, Foote replied: &#8220;I hope not.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old was playing in just his 12th game of the season after a concussion cost him three months from mid-October to mid-January. He had just returned to the lineup on Jan. 23 but has dealt with multiple concussions over his nine NHL seasons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From the beginning, it was very hard, because I was hopeful that I can manage to play all 82 games, but it wasn&#8217;t the case \u2026&#8221; Chytil told reporters in January. &#8220;Sometimes it&#8217;s the days like this, the last two years, that have been very hard for myself and for my wife, for my family, especially. I missed so many events, I missed so many games in the NHL, now I&#8217;m gonna miss the Olympics as well. So it sucks, but it is what it is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Conor Garland also missed practice on Tuesday, but Foote said it was just a maintenance day for the veteran forward. <\/p>\n<p>Garland is expected to be in the lineup when the last-place Canucks wrap their pre-Olympic schedule against the Golden Knights on Wednesday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It appears the Vancouver Canucks will be down a forward for their final game before the Olympic break.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-452132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452132","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=452132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}