{"id":438723,"date":"2026-01-31T22:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/438723\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T22:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:21:14","slug":"tampta-lightning-brayden-point-lower-body-injury-skates-at-practice-as-olympics-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/438723\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampta Lightning Brayden Point (lower-body injury) skates at practice as Olympics loom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> forward Brayden Point<\/a> skated Saturday morning alongside his teammates as he works his way back from a lower-body injury with the start of Olympic men\u2019s hockey just under two weeks away. <\/p>\n

Point was one of the first six players named to Team Canada\u2019s Olympic roster in June but was injured on Jan. 12 in a 5-1 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Earlier in the week, TSN Hockey Insider Chris Johnston said that Canada was not looking at an injury replacement for Point at this time. <\/p>\n

\u201cWell, it didn\u2019t look too good when he went down with that injury in Philadelphia earlier in the month,\u201d said Johnston Tuesday on Insider Trading. \u201cWhat I can tell you since then is that the news has gotten at least a little bit more encouraging. At this point in time, it is fully Point<\/a>\u2019s intention to get himself back healthy and get himself ready to play for Team Canada in Milan.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s only a week and a half until the players fly over there, so he\u2019s going to have to continue to make progress [and] perhaps even get into a game for the Lightning. But at this point in time, we\u2019re not talking about an injury replacement. We\u2019re talking about Point getting healthy enough in time to play for Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n

Point will not play in Sunday\u2019s Stadium Series game against the Boston Bruins<\/a> at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa. After that, the Lightning have two more games remaining on the schedule before the Olympic break, as they host the Buffalo Sabres<\/a> on Tuesday followed by the Florida Panthers<\/a> on Thursday. <\/p>\n

The 29-year-old has 11 goals and 30 points in 37 games this season. <\/p>\n

The Olympic men\u2019s hockey tournament kicks off on Feb. 11 with Canada hitting the ice for the first time the next day against Czechia in the round robin. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Lightning forward Brayden Point skated Saturday morning alongside his teammates as he works his way back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4759,51130,5,4,33549],"class_list":{"0":"post-438723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-brayden-point-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8478010","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-14"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438723","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=438723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}