{"id":385565,"date":"2026-01-01T22:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/385565\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T22:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:50:11","slug":"bo-horvat-suffers-apparent-injury-in-islanders-worry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/385565\/","title":{"rendered":"Bo Horvat suffers apparent injury in Islanders worry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barely 24 hours\u00a0after Bo Horvat was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/31\/sports\/islanders-bo-horvat-in-disbelief-after-making-canadas-olympic-roster\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">named to Team Canada\u2019s Olympic squad<\/a>, an achievement for which he\u2019s spent the year working, Horvat went up the tunnel with an apparent injury to his left side during the Islanders\u2019 game against Utah.<\/p>\n<p>Horvat got tangled up with a Utah player at the red line and came off the ice struggling to put weight on his left leg during the third period of the game.<\/p>\n<p>He did not return.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.41064639;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38073328\" width=\"742\" height=\"526\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-01-at-5.25.57-PM.png\" alt=\"Bo Horvat appeared to be injured during the Islanders-Mammoth game on Jan. 1, 2026.\" class=\"wp-image-38073328\"  \/>Bo Horvat appeared to be injured during the Islanders-Mammoth game on Jan. 1, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Horvat missed five games in December with a lower-body injury, returning on Sunday against the Blue Jackets.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not immediately clear whether this is the same injury.<\/p>\n<p>With five weeks to go before NHL players leave for the Olympics, it\u2019s also not clear whether this will affect Horvat\u2019s availability for Milan.<\/p>\n<p>The potential blow for the Islanders if he misses any time at all, though, would be a serious one given how they\u2019ve struggled to score lately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barely 24 hours\u00a0after Bo Horvat was named to Team Canada\u2019s Olympic squad, an achievement for which he\u2019s spent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5110],"tags":[3669,5,122,3328,159,5190,5189,4,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-385565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-islanders","8":"tag-bo-horvat","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-islanders","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-islanders","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkislanders","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385565","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=385565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}