{"id":456336,"date":"2026-02-05T22:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/456336\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T22:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:17:07","slug":"point-out-for-olympics-replaced-by-jarvis-on-team-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/456336\/","title":{"rendered":"Point out for Olympics, replaced by Jarvis on Team Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/brayden-point-8478010\" title=\"Brayden Point\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brayden Point<\/a> will not play for Team Canada in the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 because of an undisclosed injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Tampa Bay Lightning forward will be replaced by Carolina Hurricanes forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/seth-jarvis-8482093\" title=\"Seth Jarvis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seth Jarvis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Point has not played since Jan. 12 when he left the game and did not return after scoring a power-play goal at 4:29 of the second period in a 5-1 win against the Philadelphia Flyers.<\/p>\n<p>On the play, Flyers defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/cam-york-8481546\" title=\"Cam York\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cam York<\/a> fell on Point&#8217;s right leg, resulting in the forward needing to be helped off the ice.<\/p>\n<p>Point took part in the Lightning&#8217;s optional morning skate prior to their game against the Florida Panthers on Thursday (7:30 p.m. ET; HULU, ESPN+, SNP, SNW, SNO, TVAS) but will miss his 10th straight game.<\/p>\n<p>He has 30 points (11 goals, 19 assists) in 37 games this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brayden Point will not play for Team Canada in the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 because of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-456336","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\/456336","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=456336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}