{"id":389449,"date":"2026-01-04T02:33:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/389449\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T02:33:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:33:20","slug":"washington-capitals-tom-wilson-questionable-to-return-with-lower-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/389449\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Capitals&#8217; Tom Wilson questionable to return with lower-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/washington-capitals\/15\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/washington-capitals\/15\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Capitals<\/a> power forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/tom-wilson\/8476880\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/tom-wilson\/8476880\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Wilson<\/a> is questionable to return to Saturday\u2019s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/chicago-blackhawks\/16\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/chicago-blackhawks\/16\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> after leaving in the first period with a lower-body injury. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">INJURY UPDATE:<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Caps?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Caps<\/a> Tom Wilson (lower body) questionable to return to tonight\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Capitals PR (@CapitalsPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CapitalsPR\/status\/2007621322084634948?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 31-year-old Wilson, who was named to Canada\u2019s Olympic hockey team earlier this week, was injured when \u2018Hawks defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/connor-murphy\/8476473\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/connor-murphy\/8476473\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Murphy<\/a> threw a surprising hit on Wilson behind the Chicago net which caused Wilson to fall awkwardly on his right foot\/leg. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Wilson skated gingerly to the bench and needed help to get to the dressing room. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A native of Toronto, Wilson is on pace for a career season in 2025-26, scoring 22 goals and 20 assists over 40 games. His best season came last year when he netted 33 goals and 32 assists over 81 games. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Selected 16th overall in 2012, Wilson has spent his entire 13-year NHL career in Washington, recording 201 goals and 236 assists over 875 games. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Wilson helped the Caps win their first and only Stanley Cup in franchise history in 2018. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington Capitals power forward Tom Wilson is questionable to return to Saturday\u2019s game against the Chicago Blackhawks after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5114],"tags":[4759,191,5,4,44152,190,109,35805,5222],"class_list":{"0":"post-389449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-capitals","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-capitals","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-tom-wilson-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8476880","13":"tag-washington","14":"tag-washington-capitals","15":"tag-washington-capitals-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-15","16":"tag-washingtoncapitals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115834493625496693","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389449","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=389449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}