{"id":476910,"date":"2026-02-28T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/476910\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T11:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T11:00:15","slug":"pwhl-teams-place-hilary-knight-kendall-coyne-schofield-and-erin-ambrose-on-long-term-ir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/476910\/","title":{"rendered":"PWHL teams place Hilary Knight, Kendall Coyne Schofield and Erin Ambrose on long-term IR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olympians Hilary Knight, Kendall Coyne Schofield and Erin Ambrose have all been placed on long-term injured reserve by their PWHL clubs after sustaining injuries during the Milan Cortina Games.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hilary-knight-olympics-us-womens-hockey-48ff5f3f05d18d9fb67e44a94726b4c8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Knight<\/a>, a five-time Olympian and captain of the United States team that won gold, will be out of the Seattle Torrent\u2019s lineup indefinitely after sustaining a lower-body injury in Italy, the team announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Knight had three goals and three assists for the U.S. at Milan Cortina including a goal in the <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/us-canada-womens-hockey-olympic-final-141b5904352673676656cbe2a1c253e5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2-1 overtime win<\/a> over Canada in the final. She has three goals and seven assists during the current PWHL season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we\u2019re eager to be at full strength and recognize the anticipation of Hilary\u2019s return, we\u2019re focused on putting her and our team in the best position for a playoff push,\u201d Torrent general manager Meghan Turner said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Frost captain Coyne Schofield was placed on long-term injured reserve on Friday retroactive to Feb. 19 with an upper-body injury. Coyne Schofield scored three goals for the United States during the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am incredibly proud of all our Frost Olympians who demonstrated true excellence on the world stage,\u201d general manager Melissa Caruso said in a statement. \u201cWe are fully committed to supporting Kendall throughout her recovery, and our medical team will be working diligently to help her prepare for her return to the ice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The moves by the Torrent and Frost came a day after the Montreal Victoire announced that Ambrose has been placed on long-term injured reserve retroactive to Feb. 19 for a lower\u2011body injury suffered while representing Canada in the gold medal game. Ambrose had a pair of assists at the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>The Victoire\u2019s Marie-Philip Poulin, Canada\u2019s captain in Italy, was listed as day-to-day with an Olympics-related injury.<\/p>\n<p>Victoire general manager Daniele Sauvageau said of the team\u2019s Olympians \u201cwe are confident that they will be back in the lineup in the near future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP women\u2019s hockey: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/womens-hockey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/womens-hockey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olympians Hilary Knight, Kendall Coyne Schofield and Erin Ambrose have all been placed on long-term injured reserve by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[46305,911,19,17224,3410,3137,5,3416,15711,57414,161,1277,43,46985,3133,190,1581],"class_list":["post-476910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hockey","tag-2026-milan-cortina-olympic-games","tag-athlete-injuries","tag-canada","tag-daniele-sauvageau","tag-erin-ambrose","tag-hilary-knight","tag-hockey","tag-marie-philip-poulin","tag-meghan-turner","tag-melissa-caruso","tag-minnesota","tag-mn-state-wire","tag-sports","tag-united-states-olympic-team","tag-wa-state-wire","tag-washington","tag-womens-hockey"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116147915136856211","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476910","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=476910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}