{"id":459441,"date":"2026-02-16T03:19:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T03:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/459441\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T03:19:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T03:19:43","slug":"los-angeles-kings-kevin-fiala-leg-undergoes-successful-surgery-to-be-re-evaluated-after-regular-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/459441\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Kings\u2019 Kevin Fiala (leg) undergoes successful surgery, to be re-evaluated after regular season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/los-angeles-kings\/26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/los-angeles-kings\/26\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Kings<\/a> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/kevin-fiala\/8477942\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/kevin-fiala\/8477942\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Fiala<\/a> will miss the remainder of the 2025-26 NHL regular season after undergoing successful surgery to repair fractures in his left lower leg. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Kings announced that the 29-year-old is resting comfortably and will begin his recovery and rehabilitation program. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">His status will be re-evaluated at the end of the regular season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fiala was taken off the ice on a stretcher late in Switzerland\u2019s 5-1 loss to Canada on Friday at Milano Cortina 2026, after a collision with forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/tom-wilson\/8476880\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/tom-wilson\/8476880\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Wilson<\/a>. He was placed face down on the stretcher and appeared to have an aircast on his leg as he was wheeled off the ice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cTough moment for Kevin and the whole team, obviously,\u201d Switzerland coach Patrick Fischer said. \u201cIt was an accident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cJust unlucky,\u201d Wilson said after the game. \u201cHe\u2019s a competitor, obviously. At this point, it\u2019s the Olympic Games, and I feel terrible that he may not be able to keep playing, and just sending his family and him my best. You never want to see a guy go down in a tournament like this, especially. It sucks for the country, for their team, and just wishing him a quick recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fiala has 18 goals and 40 points in 55 games with the Kings this season, his fourth with the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was originally selected 11th overall by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/nashville-predators\/18\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/nashville-predators\/18\" target=\"_blank\">Nashville Predators<\/a> in the 2014 NHL Draft. In 707 career games with the Preds, Kings and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/minnesota-wild\/30\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/minnesota-wild\/30\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Wild<\/a>, Fiala has 229 goals and 528 points. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Kings forward Kevin Fiala will miss the remainder of the 2025-26 NHL regular season after undergoing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5126],"tags":[4759,5,55508,186,1760,240,5303,793,145,32840,5304,5302,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-459441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-kings","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-kevin-fiala-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8477942","11":"tag-kings","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-la-kings","14":"tag-lakings","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-kings","17":"tag-los-angeles-kings-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-26","18":"tag-losangeles","19":"tag-losangeleskings","20":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116078154803312022","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459441","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=459441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}