{"id":957044,"date":"2026-11-03T18:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T18:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/957044\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T18:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T18:14:09","slug":"canadas-sarah-fillier-expected-to-play-at-worlds-after-injury-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/957044\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Sarah Fillier expected to play at worlds after injury scare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian fans can breathe a sigh of relief.<\/p>\n<p>Women&#8217;s hockey star Sarah Fillier is expected to play at the world championship despite an injury scare during a pre-tournament game, GM Dani\u00e8le Sauvageau <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/sports\/hockey\/pwhl\/fillier-injury-status-update-worlds-9.7407240\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told CBC Sports<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Things are looking good, so it&#8217;s a question of day by day. It&#8217;s on a good track, a positive track,&#8221; Sauvageau said.<\/p>\n<p>Fillier left a 4-0 loss to the U.S. on Friday after an awkward crash into the boards, throwing her status for the tournament in doubt.<\/p>\n<p>She had a goal and an assist in Canada&#8217;s first exhibition against the Americans, a 5-3 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Fillier, 26, who plays for the New York Sirens in the PWHL, registered 13 goals and 16 assists in 30 games last season.<\/p>\n<p>The world championship runs Nov. 6-16 in Denmark ahead of the PWHL season. Canada is looking to recapture gold after the U.S. won 4-3 in overtime in the championship game last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian fans can breathe a sigh of relief. Women&#8217;s hockey star Sarah Fillier is expected to play at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":957045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-957044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957044","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=957044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/957045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}