{"id":467940,"date":"2026-02-14T09:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T09:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/467940\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T09:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T09:07:08","slug":"fiala-done-for-olympics-after-awkward-wilson-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/467940\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiala done for Olympics after awkward Wilson hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Switzerland and Los Angeles Kings forward <a data-in-app-uri=\"thescore:\/\/\/wolymhm\/players\/4112\" href=\"https:\/\/thescore.com\/wolymhm\/players\/4112\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Fiala<\/a> was stretchered off late in the third period against Canada on Friday after an awkward hit by <a data-in-app-uri=\"thescore:\/\/\/wolymhm\/players\/2592\" href=\"https:\/\/thescore.com\/wolymhm\/players\/2592\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Wilson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fiala will miss the rest of the Olympic tournament with a lower-body injury, Switzerland announced.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson appeared to land on Fiala&#8217;s leg in the collision. There was no penalty on the play.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We haven&#8217;t seen him yet. I think he went to the hospital,&#8221; Switzerland head coach Patrick Fischer said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cotsonika\/status\/2022450459747770475?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">NHL.com&#8217;s Nick Cotsonika<\/a>. &#8220;Obviously, it doesn&#8217;t look very good. Tough, tough, tough moment for Kevin and the whole team, obviously.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fiala ranks second on the Kings with 18 goals and 40 points in 56 games, and he&#8217;s one of 10 NHL players on Switzerland&#8217;s roster.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles teammate <a data-in-app-uri=\"thescore:\/\/\/wolymhm\/players\/560\" href=\"https:\/\/thescore.com\/wolymhm\/players\/560\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Drew Doughty<\/a> was on the ice for Canada.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I, like, wanted to (go) over there when he was lying on the ground,&#8221; Doughty said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cotsonika\/status\/2022451676528152860?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cotsonika<\/a>. &#8220;I just said something to him going off the ice, and I&#8217;m going to find him as fast as I can right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Kings acquired star forward Artemi Panarin before the Olympic break. Los Angeles is one point out of the second wild card in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Fiala sustained a broken femur in 2017 during the Stanley Cup Playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Switzerland and Los Angeles Kings forward Kevin Fiala was stretchered off late in the third period against Canada&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-467940","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\/467940","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=467940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}