{"id":491967,"date":"2026-02-22T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/491967\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T12:00:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T12:00:01","slug":"vancouver-canucks-give-another-terrible-update-on-the-health-of-filip-chytil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/491967\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Canucks give another terrible update on the health of Filip Chytil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filip Chytil just can\u2019t catch a break.<\/p>\n

The Vancouver Canucks centre was back at practice earlier this week in a familiar non-contact jersey, after he was forced from the lineup due to migraines before the Olympic break.<\/p>\n

Then, a fluke catastrophe unfolded<\/a> at practice on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

An errant puck hit Chytil square in the head. According to reporters, he left the ice dazed. Head coach Adam Foote confirmed that Chytil would undergo an MRI.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the Canucks confirmed that the Wednesday incident wasn\u2019t just a scare.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, he\u2019s got a [facial] fracture,\u201d Foote said after practice on Friday in a clip posted<\/a> by Rink Wide\u2019s Jeff Paterson.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it went off one of our defencemen\u2019s skates and skipped up. Really, that\u2019s some bad luck for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

No kidding.<\/p>\n

Chytil has already been sidelined on four separate occasions, including this one, during his 13-month tenure with the Canucks.<\/p>\n

His 2024-25 season ended after Chicago Blackhawks centre Jason Dickinson slammed Chytil into the boards. Then, the Czech centre lasted just six games this season before an open-ice hit sidelined him for over three months.<\/p>\n

You can add those with the migraine-related absence, and now a facial fracture.<\/p>\n

Foote didn\u2019t want to give a timeline for Chytil\u2019s absence, meaning for now, the forward is out indefinitely.<\/p>\n

He also mentioned that Chytil probably won\u2019t require surgery, but that he\u2019s seeing specialists to get a final answer.<\/p>\n

The Canucks have played 88 games since Chytil was acquired in the J.T. Miller trade last January. Because of injuries, Chytil has only played in 27 of those games.<\/p>\n

Chytil is under contract for one more season after this one, with a cap hit of $4.437 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Filip Chytil just can\u2019t catch a break. The Vancouver Canucks centre was back at practice earlier this week…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-491967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491967","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=491967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}