{"id":102830,"date":"2025-08-22T22:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T22:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/102830\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T22:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T22:19:07","slug":"martin-fehervary-says-hes-struggling-with-lingering-pain-and-inflammation-in-his-surgically-repaired-knee-i-should-have-been-training-on-the-ice-for-a-month-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/102830\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Fehervary says he\u2019s struggling with lingering pain and inflammation in his surgically repaired knee: \u2018I should have been training on the ice for a month already\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Martin Fehervary missed the end of the 2024-25 season due to a torn meniscus in his right knee. The Slovakian defenseman underwent surgery in April<\/a>, missing the final game of the regular season and the entirety of the Washington Capitals\u2019 playoff run.<\/p>\n

Capitals\u2019 general manager Chris Patrick said in June that Fehervary was \u201cdoing great\u201d<\/a> and that \u201che\u2019s pretty much at the point now where he can start his normal offseason training.\u201d He added, \u201cMarty\u2019s a machine, so you can\u2019t keep him down too long.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Fehervary\u2019s progress was positive two months into his recovery, he has hit a wall since, as Capitals training camp begins in less than a month.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have minor inflammation and can\u2019t get rid of it, and it\u2019s still hurting me a bit,\u201d Fehervary said to Slovakian media per a Sportnet.sk YouTube video<\/a>, and as translated by Katina K. \u201cIt\u2019s a bit of a long story.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

While Fehervary has been able to do off-ice work, he has yet to return to the ice, where he\u2019s one of the fastest skaters in the NHL.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to be better and to know when (I\u2019ll be skating again), but I know I will get there,\u201d Fehervary said at the Slovak Hockey Player of the Year 2025 gala at Bratislava Castle. \u201cI don\u2019t want to rush anything. I want to be sensible and patient about the knee. When everything is then in good standing with the knee, I will start back on the ice.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked if things were bad enough with his knee where he might miss the start of the regular season, Fehervary responded, \u201cI don\u2019t believe so, but I should have been training on the ice for a month already. But you never really know. I certainly hope that there is no problem. But I will know when I get there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fehervary made the comments after winning the R\u00f3bert \u0160vehla Award as best Slovak defenseman for the third consecutive year<\/a>. He is planning to leave for the Washington, DC area in the coming days.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt looks like I will be leaving on the 31st of August,\u201d Fehervary said.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s also been in regular contact with the Capitals about his progress.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, I am in communication with many people,\u201d the five-year NHL veteran said. \u201cWe are working together to find the best possible solution.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fehervary is coming off a career year with the Capitals after posting 25 points (5g, 20a) in 81 games. The 25-year-old rearguard was effective both at five-on-five and on the penalty kill, skating primarily with Matt Roy in a shutdown role.<\/p>\n

After the Capitals were eliminated in the second round by the Carolina Hurricanes in five games, Capitals head coach Spencer Carbery said that being without the unheralded, slick-skating defenseman in the playoffs was difficult<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we knew, our players knew, our staff knew, that when we lost Marty, and I don\u2019t think the rest of the hockey world really knows, how significant of a player as he is for our team,\u201d Carbery said. \u201cHe does a lot of things that go unnoticed, and so we knew it was a significant blow to our back end.<\/p>\n

\u201cI still would agree with what I said at the time, is we could still, and we\u2019ve won a series in the first round against Montreal without Marty, but it was a massive blow to lose him.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 2025-26 season will be a big one for Fehervary as he\u2019s already been named one of Team Slovakia\u2019s six initial roster members for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very excited and motivated about the Olympics, but the first priority is to be healthy,\u201d Fehervary said. \u201cAnd then I can start to think about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fehervary is also a month removed from signing a seven-year contract extension with the Capitals<\/a> that begins at the start of the 2026-27 campaign. Fehervary got a major pay raise, which will see him earn an average of $6 million per season and $42 million over the length of the deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin Fehervary missed the end of the 2024-25 season due to a torn meniscus in his right knee.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-102830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}