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Filip Chytil injury news from Adam Foote landed like a punch for the Vancouver Canucks.
Foote confirmed Chytil is out indefinitely after a puck caught him in the face at practice and left him with a facial fracture. Surgery is not ruled out yet.
The worst part is how routine it looked until it wasn’t, a deflection, a bad bounce, then Chytil clutching his cheek and heading for X-rays.
Foote’s language felt careful, almost guarded, the kind of update that tells you the room is waiting on specialists before anyone says more.
This season was already stop and start for Chytil, and now the restart button gets hit again.
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Chytil has only logged 12 games in 2025-26 and his line is 3-0-3, with every shift looking like he’s trying to rebuild timing from scratch.
That’s what makes this so brutal, he finally gets back around the group, then a random puck takes away his runway.
The Canucks were hoping Chytil could stabilize the middle, take hard matchups, and keep the top-six from carrying every tough minute.
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Canucks fans are tired of hearing «out indefinitely,» especially when it keeps finding the same guy.
If Chytil can’t go, the trickle down is obvious, more pressure on the other centers, more scrambling on matchups, more nights where the bench shortens.
Vancouver is already sitting at 18-33-6, and this kind of injury chaos always feels like it drags the record with it.
The schedule does not wait, either, with Winnipeg next on Wednesday at Rogers Arena.
Foote calling it bad luck is true, but it also underlines how little margin this roster has right now.
If there’s a silver lining, it’s that a facial fracture can be more predictable than head symptoms once the swelling and surgery question is settled.
Still, it’s hard not to feel for Chytil, because every time he gets close to normal, something else knocks him off track.
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