{"id":450412,"date":"2026-02-07T16:40:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T16:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/450412\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T16:40:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T16:40:26","slug":"czechia-loses-boston-center-pavel-zacha-for-milan-cortina-games-due-to-injury-pro-national-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/450412\/","title":{"rendered":"Czechia loses Boston center Pavel Zacha for Milan Cortina Games due to injury | Pro National Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILAN (AP) \u2014 Czechia has to do without Pavel Zacha at the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/milan-cortina-2026-winter-olympics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milan Cortina Games<\/a> as the Boston Bruins center will not recover in time from injury for the Olympic hockey tournament in a blow for the Czechs.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/czech-hockey-milan-olympics-ed95bfc8280b725f18f3e1a3bd3bb114\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Czech team<\/a> said Saturday that Zacha will be replaced by Filip Chlap\u00edk from Sparta Prague in the Czech league.<\/p>\n<p>The Czechs announced the change after it was approved by the International Olympic Committee. They received the bad news from Boston manager general Don Sweeney on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Zacha left the Bruins&#8217; 6-3 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/6bda01d5be33842e505a72fbd63fb370\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">win over the Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> on Jan. 30 during . He has 15 goals and 22 assists in 54 games for the Bruins this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Czechs open the Olympic tournament against Canada on Feb. 12.<\/p>\n<p>AP Winter Olympics: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/milan-cortina-2026-winter-olympics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/milan-cortina-2026-winter-olympics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILAN (AP) \u2014 Czechia has to do without Pavel Zacha at the Milan Cortina Games as the Boston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5103],"tags":[265,5,264,21,5147,4,46500,46501,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-450412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-montreal-canadiens","8":"tag-canadiens","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-montreal","11":"tag-montreal-canadiens","12":"tag-montrealcanadiens","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-pro_national_sports","15":"tag-pronational_sports","16":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116030343112018579","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450412","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=450412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}