{"id":473983,"date":"2026-02-14T06:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T06:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/473983\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T06:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T06:59:08","slug":"fiala-done-for-olympics-after-awkward-wilson-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/473983\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiala done for Olympics after awkward Wilson hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Switzerland and Los Angeles Kings forward <a data-in-app-uri=\"thescore:\/\/\/wolymhm\/players\/4112\" href=\"https:\/\/thescore.com\/wolymhm\/players\/4112\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Fiala<\/a> was stretchered off late in the third period against Canada on Friday after an awkward hit by <a data-in-app-uri=\"thescore:\/\/\/wolymhm\/players\/2592\" href=\"https:\/\/thescore.com\/wolymhm\/players\/2592\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Wilson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fiala will miss the rest of the Olympic tournament with a lower-body injury, Switzerland announced.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson appeared to land on Fiala&#8217;s leg in the collision. There was no penalty on the play.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We haven&#8217;t seen him yet. I think he went to the hospital,&#8221; Switzerland head coach Patrick Fischer said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cotsonika\/status\/2022450459747770475?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">NHL.com&#8217;s Nick Cotsonika<\/a>. &#8220;Obviously, it doesn&#8217;t look very good. Tough, tough, tough moment for Kevin and the whole team, obviously.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fiala ranks second on the Kings with 18 goals and 40 points in 56 games, and he&#8217;s one of 10 NHL players on Switzerland&#8217;s roster.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles teammate <a data-in-app-uri=\"thescore:\/\/\/wolymhm\/players\/560\" href=\"https:\/\/thescore.com\/wolymhm\/players\/560\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Drew Doughty<\/a> was on the ice for Canada.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I, like, wanted to (go) over there when he was lying on the ground,&#8221; Doughty said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cotsonika\/status\/2022451676528152860?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cotsonika<\/a>. &#8220;I just said something to him going off the ice, and I&#8217;m going to find him as fast as I can right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Kings acquired star forward Artemi Panarin before the Olympic break. Los Angeles is one point out of the second wild card in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Fiala sustained a broken femur in 2017 during the Stanley Cup Playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Switzerland and Los Angeles Kings forward Kevin Fiala was stretchered off late in the third period against Canada&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-473983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473983","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=473983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}