{"id":383865,"date":"2026-01-01T00:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T00:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/383865\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T00:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T00:49:10","slug":"adam-foxs-team-usa-snub-for-winter-olympics-is-a-jarring-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/383865\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Fox&#8217;s Team USA snub for Winter Olympics is a jarring one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 The Rangers\u2019 top defenseman returned to the lineup Wednesday afternoon, but it did not help the team evade its third loss in a row.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being decimated by injuries this season, the Blueshirts have had so many more deficiencies that the return of a key player \u2014 like Adam Fox in <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/31\/sports\/rangers-lose-third-straight-as-capitals-take-it-to-them\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wednesday\u2019s 6-3 loss to the Capitals<\/a> \u2014 felt more like a Band-Aid on an open flesh wound that requires stitches.<\/p>\n<p>Fox is not just the Rangers\u2019 No. 1 defenseman and one of the club\u2019s best overall players. Statistically, the 27-year-old is among the top three blueliners in the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>His two-point effort (one power-play goal, one assist) wasn\u2019t able to make a difference for the Rangers on Wednesday afternoon. And yet, Fox is not expected to hear his name called Friday morning, when Team USA unveils its roster for the 2026 Olympic Games on NBC\u2019s \u201cToday Show\u201d ahead of the Rangers\u2019 participation in the Winter Classic in Miami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 The Rangers\u2019 top defenseman returned to the lineup Wednesday afternoon, but it did not help&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5111],"tags":[1503,5,3328,35,5190,5193,4,36,43,350,336,2787],"class_list":{"0":"post-383865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-rangers","8":"tag-adam-fox","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-rangers","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkrangers","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-rangers","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-columnists","18":"tag-sports-plus","19":"tag-winter-olympics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115817097975032466","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}