{"id":474222,"date":"2026-02-14T09:43:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T09:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/474222\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T09:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T09:43:15","slug":"switzerlands-kevin-fiala-to-miss-rest-of-olympics-after-being-stretchered-off-against-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/474222\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland’s Kevin Fiala to miss rest of Olympics after being stretchered off against Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Swiss forward will miss the rest of the Winter Olympics after being stretchered off the ice late in Friday’s game against Canada, Swiss Ice Hockey announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fiala went down along the boards in the Canadian end with 2:50 remaining in the third period after getting his legs tangled up with Tom Wilson. It appeared that Wilson landed on Fiala’s left leg.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Kings<\/a> winger stayed down as play was called dead, and training staff were brought onto the ice. The 29-year-old was placed on a stretcher on his stomach and taken off the ice as both teams came off their benches to support Fiala as he left the game.<\/p>\n

Swiss head coach Patrick Fischer told reporters<\/a> after the game that Fiala was taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n

Fiala had logged 20:04 of ice time in what ended as a 5-1 Swiss loss to the Canadians. In Switzerland’s tournament-opening 4-0 win over France on Thursday, Fiala recorded an assist for his first career Olympic point.<\/p>\n

Switzerland returns to the ice on Sunday against Group A opponent Czechia.<\/p>\n

A native of St. Gallen, Fiala has been a consistent presence on Switzerland’s national teams throughout his career. The 11th-overall pick in the 2014 draft, Fiala has suited up for his country at the World Championships on seven separate occasions.<\/p>\n

Fiala’s NHL team in Los Angeles will undoubtedly be tracking his status closely, as the Kings currently sit three points out of a wild-card spot in the Western Conference. <\/p>\n

In 56 games for the Kings this season, Fiala has 18 goals and 22 assists \u2014 tracking for his seventh consecutive campaign with 20 or more goals.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, defenceman Andrea Glauser is suspected to have a concussion after a hard hit from Canada’s Connor McDavid, Fischer said<\/a>, while forward Dennis Malgin is dealing with a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Swiss forward will miss the rest of the Winter Olympics after being stretchered off the ice late…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-474222","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\/474222","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=474222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}