{"id":436043,"date":"2026-01-29T03:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/436043\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T03:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:08:09","slug":"flyers-activate-czech-olympian-dan-vladar-off-injured-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/436043\/","title":{"rendered":"Flyers activate Czech Olympian Dan Vladar off injured reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 28, 2026, 02:00 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>COLUMBUS, Ohio &#8212; The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"68aba012-4e93-9371-6861-1bb9a63cfb11\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/phi\/philadelphia-flyers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> activated goaltender <a data-player-guid=\"1a1c210e-2559-fd71-98bb-0b6047e701d7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3942459\/dan-vladar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Vladar<\/a> off injured reserve, clearing him to return for Wednesday&#8217;s game against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"724d5dd5-197c-6f1d-29ca-a0b4f25eb1b6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/cbj\/columbus-blue-jackets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Vladar missed the past two weeks after leaving a game at Buffalo with what the team called a lower-body injury. The Flyers have lost four of six games since.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/story\/_\/id\/47694474\/which-nhl-players-playing-2026-winter-olympics\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/r1604193_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/story\/_\/id\/47472573\/olympics-milano-cortina-hockey-nhl-schedule-rosters-how-watch-news\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/r1595622_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>After being mostly a backup since reaching the NHL, Vladar, 28, was in the middle of arguably the best season of his career when he got hurt. He is 16-7-4 with a 2.46 goals-against average that ranks ninth in the league and a .905 save percentage that is good for 18th among netminders with at least 20 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>He was one of three goalies chosen to play for Czechia at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/olympics\/winter\/ice-hockey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">upcoming Olympics<\/a> in Milan. <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"183c31f7-2eed-15c0-7fa1-a568d20bf3ad\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/ana\/anaheim-ducks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anaheim<\/a>&#8216;s <a data-player-guid=\"6e534dbd-e307-2ccd-9ac0-b9be330e380b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4588165\/lukas-dostal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lukas Dostal<\/a> is expected to be the Czech starter, with Vladar and <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"f7e8115e-e00b-315d-8018-d2b38e4f420a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/utah\/utah-mammoth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Utah<\/a>&#8216;s <a data-player-guid=\"2c69f173-a8a9-5ca7-d88a-b4a7934bb24e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3942065\/karel-vejmelka\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Karel Vejmelka<\/a> competing to back up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 28, 2026, 02:00 PM ET COLUMBUS, Ohio &#8212; The Philadelphia Flyers activated goaltender Dan Vladar off injured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-436043","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\/436043","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=436043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}