{"id":455113,"date":"2026-02-12T02:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T02:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/455113\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T02:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T02:14:11","slug":"groin-injury-gave-him-no-issue-in-olympic-opener-tsn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/455113\/","title":{"rendered":"Groin injury gave him no issue in Olympic opener \u2013 TSN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sweden got their men\u2019s Olympic hockey schedule off to a winning start Wednesday afternoon with a 5-2 victory over Italy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It was closer than the Swedes would have liked as the two teams sat even at 2-2 late into the second period, but Sweden pulled away with three consecutive goals to secure the victory and survive a scare from the hosts, who are the only team in the Olympic tournament without an NHL player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Star forward William Nylander scored the eventual winner, backhanding home a nifty setup from Rasmus Dahlin. He finished with five shots on goal over 21 shifts in 16:27 of ice time in the victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Nylander\u2019s status for the game was up in the air prior to puck drop, with Sweden head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/olympics\/article\/nylander-groin-active-for-sweden-against-hosts-italy\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/olympics\/article\/nylander-groin-active-for-sweden-against-hosts-italy\/\">Sam Hallam saying earlier in the day<\/a> he was not sure if Nylander would play. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddea William Nylander on missing practice yesterday: &#8220;Just taking care of my body, making sure I&#8217;m good for the remainder of the season&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Any issues with the groin?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, not today&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSN_Sports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@TSN_Sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mark Masters (@markhmasters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markhmasters\/status\/2021718594657095700?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 11, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Leafs star told TSN\u2019s Mark Masters after the game he had no issues with his groin during Wednesday\u2019s matchup. While he did miss practice on Tuesday, he chalked that up to being cautious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cJust taking care of my body, making sure I\u2019m good for the remainder of the season,\u201d Nylander told Masters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Nylander has been dealing with a groin injury that has kept him out of 13 games in 2025-26 across two stints.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In 40 games this season for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Nylander has 18 goals and 34 assists. He is coming off of three-straight 40-plus goal seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sweden will continue their Olympic schedule on Friday against Finland.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sweden got their men\u2019s Olympic hockey schedule off to a winning start Wednesday afternoon with a 5-2 victory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[4759,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-455113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116055249238948647","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455113","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=455113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}