{"id":437916,"date":"2026-01-31T11:50:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T11:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/437916\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T11:50:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T11:50:35","slug":"injury-bug-bites-again-ersson-exits-game-vs-bruins-with-apparent-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/437916\/","title":{"rendered":"Injury Bug Bites Again, Ersson Exits Game vs. Bruins with Apparent Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The injury bug appears to have bitten again, as the Philadelphia\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/flyers\/player\/samuel-ersson-8481035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Flyers\u2019 goaltender,<\/a>\u00a0Sam Ersson, exited Thursday\u2019s game vs. the Boston Bruins and did not return to the bench for the third period.  <\/p>\n<p>On the NBC Sports Philadelphia broadcast, they pointed out an instance in which Ersson made a stop down low before the puck left the zone. Once the puck was out of the zone, you could see Ersson grabbing at his right pad\/leg. It was similar to what had happened before Dan Vladar missed a handful of games due to injury. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking of that injury, the Flyers tried to platoon Ersson with Aleksei Kolosov, which did not go well. That led to four-straight starts, and virtually five-straight (Kolosov pulled early in the game before the stretch) for Ersson, who got a ton of work. Vladar got the net on Wednesday, before Ersson returned between the pipes on Thursday, allowing five goals on 20 shots. <\/p>\n<p>Vladar has taken over in goal. <\/p>\n<p>The Flyers seemed to have avoided the worst with Rasmus Ristolainen, who is back in the lineup after leaving Wednesday\u2019s game early. Travis Konecny was a game-time decision as well, but he is playing and has a goal as well. <\/p>\n<p>However, the Flyers did not leave without another player getting injured. <\/p>\n<p>An update on Ersson will be given when one is provided. <\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/phillyhockeynow.com\/2026\/01\/29\/flyers-injury-update-nhl-trade-rumors-rangers-sharks-artemi-panarin-jason-robertson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PhHN Daily: Flyers Injuries; Panarin Trade Rumors; Robertson\u2019s Cost<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The injury bug appears to have bitten again, as the Philadelphia\u00a0Flyers\u2019 goaltender,\u00a0Sam Ersson, exited Thursday\u2019s game vs. the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5112],"tags":[58,1468,41572,5,4,1467,56,5205,9519],"class_list":["post-437916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-philadelphia-flyers","tag-featured","tag-flyers","tag-flyers-injury","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-flyers","tag-philadelphiaflyers","tag-sam-ersson"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115989566252818888","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437916","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=437916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}