NEW YORK \u2014 Carolina Hurricanes forward Seth Jarvis was in the middle of his pregame nap Thursday when his phone rang. On the other end of the call was Doug Armstrong, Team Canada\u2019s general manager. The 24-year-old felt groggy when he woke up, but he was quickly excited when Armstrong told him the news: He was joining the Canadian Olympic team in place of Brayden Point, who is out with a knee injury.<\/p>\n
\u201cGreat reason to interrupt my nap,\u201d Jarvis said after helping Carolina to a 2-0 win against the Rangers. \u201cI take those pretty seriously, but for that reason, more than happy to wake up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Team Canada had told Jarvis to stay ready as a potential injury replacement. The winger, who has 25 goals and 43 points in 49 games this year, was part of Canada\u2019s gold medal-winning team at the 4 Nations Face-Off but missed the cut for the initial Olympic roster. After the news, he told reporters, \u201cSometimes you gotta eat a s\u2014 sandwich and chew on it for a little bit. It doesn\u2019t taste good, but you move on.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jarvis had planned to vacation in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, over the Olympic break. Quickly, he was on the phone rearranging plans, trying to figure out what to pack and how to get to Italy.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, love warm weather, but this is an absolutely great reason not to go (to Cabo),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Jarvis, who is from Winnipeg and sported a T-shirt from the city\u2019s CFL team in his postgame interview, said it\u2019s nice to have some familiarity with Canadian coach Jon Cooper\u2019s systems from 4 Nations. He doesn\u2019t anticipate being as intimidated as he was at the 2025 tournament because he already knows many of the players, including Sidney Crosby, whom he watched score the 2010 gold medal-winning goal from a friend\u2019s basement in Winnipeg. He was 8 at the time.<\/p>\n
Jarvis\u2019 inclusion comes at the expense of Point, a two-time Stanley Cup winner with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Point suffered his knee injury on Jan. 12 in the Lightning\u2019s game against the Philadelphia Flyers.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou never want to see someone go down, especially Pointer: someone I model a lot of my game after, I have a ton of respect for and someone at 4 Nations I grew pretty close to and really enjoyed being around,\u201d Jarvis said. \u201cIt sucks that this is the way it had to go.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow my job is to focus on helping the team any way I can, whether that\u2019s playing games or being a great teammate off the ice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Carolina Hurricanes forward Seth Jarvis was in the middle of his pregame nap Thursday when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5107],"tags":[194,29,5176,5,195,54125,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-448514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-hurricanes","8":"tag-carolina","9":"tag-carolina-hurricanes","10":"tag-carolinahurricanes","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-hurricanes","13":"tag-mens-olympic-ice-hockey","14":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116022619987238764","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448514","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=448514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}