{"id":456070,"date":"2026-02-12T21:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T21:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/456070\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T21:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T21:40:10","slug":"canadas-josh-morrissey-exits-in-second-period-vs-czechia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/456070\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Josh Morrissey exits in second period vs. Czechia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canadian defenceman Josh Morrissey left for the dressing early in the second period against Czechia and did not return. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It\u2019s not clear what forced the Calgary native to leave the game. He played 13 shifts for 7:10 before exiting. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He began the game on a pairing with Colton Parayko. Canada finished the game with six defencemen: Cale Makar, Devon Toews, Shea Theodore, Colton Parayko, Thomas Harley, and Drew Doughty. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Morrissey, 30, has 10 goals and 32 assists over 56 games for the Winnipeg Jets this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He played in three games for Canada\u2019s during last year\u2019s 4 Nations Face-Off tournament, but wasn\u2019t able to record a point. He missed the championship game due to an illness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cRepresenting Canada at the highest level is a dream come true. To go to the Olympic Games &#8230; it\u2019s so much bigger than just hockey,\u201d Morrissey said in an<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/olympics\/article\/morrissey-hungry-for-olympic-gold\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/olympics\/article\/morrissey-hungry-for-olympic-gold\/\"> interview with TSN\u2019s Danielle Bain in January<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s a hunger level for me to obviously have a great tournament and push to win a gold medal, and hope to be a part of that celebration that I wasn\u2019t able to be a part of last year,\u201d he said of missing the end of the 4 Nations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Philadelphia Flyers\u2019 Travis Sanheim was a healthy scratch for today\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canada entered the third period up 3-0 on Czechia with goals from Macklin Celebrini, Mark Stone, and Bo Horvat. Nathan MacKinnon and Nick Suzuki scored in the final period as Canada won 5-0. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian defenceman Josh Morrissey left for the dressing early in the second period against Czechia and did not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4759,5,4,42978],"class_list":{"0":"post-456070","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","11":"tag-olympics-sports-olympics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116059835253019096","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456070","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=456070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}