{"id":462557,"date":"2025-02-17T21:52:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T02:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=462557"},"modified":"2025-02-17T21:52:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T02:52:38","slug":"team-usa-loses-key-forward-already-short-bench-gets-shorter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/02\/17\/team-usa-loses-key-forward-already-short-bench-gets-shorter\/","title":{"rendered":"Team USA Loses Key Forward; Already Short Bench Gets Shorter"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United States entered Monday’s 4 Nations Face-Off game against Sweden shorthanded. An already short bench has gotten shorter. Forward Brady Tkachuk has suffered an undisclosed injury and will not return to Monday’s game<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tkachuk Injury<\/h2>\n
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Brady Tkachuk is officially done for the night.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Dan Rosen (@drosennhl) February 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tkachuk sustained the injury while crashing the net with the puck in the first period. As Tkachuk moved the puck to his backhand, he fell and slid into the Sweden goal post. His left side made contact with the post. Tkachuk stayed down for a moment but got up fairly fast.<\/p>\n

However, Tkachuk would go to the United States locker room upon returning to the bench. The forward did return to the ice for a short shift. He did not join the team on the bench for the start of the second period and has since been ruled out for the remainder of the game.<\/p>\n

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Brady Tkachuk will not return to tonights game #NHL<\/a> | #4Nations<\/a>
\npic.twitter.com\/Y3THvbkvV7<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The Cam & Strick Podcast (@CamandStrick) February 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tkachuk has been making his presence known in the tournament so far. He scored two goals in the United States victory on Thursday<\/a>. Furthermore, Tkachuk dropped the gloves just three seconds into Saturday’s game<\/a> with Canada’s Sam Bennett.<\/p>\n

Short Bench Gets Shorter<\/h3>\n

The United States entered Monday’s game knowing they would be without a few players. Matthew Tkachuk is sitting as a precaution as a result of an injury sustained earlier in the tournament. In addition, team captain Auston Matthews is not playing, nor is defenceman Charlie McAvoy.<\/p>\n

Monday’s game has no impact on who plays in the championship game on Thursday. The United States clinched their spot in the game with their two regulation wins to begin the tournament. Furthermore, Sweden was eliminated from contention when Canada defeated Finland<\/a> in regulation earlier on Monday.<\/p>\n

Even the Officials Are Getting Hurt<\/h3>\n

Apparently, Monday is the night for injuries. Referee Wes McCauley will not return to the game due to an undisclosed injury.<\/p>\n

Main Photo: Eric Bolte- Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The United States entered Monday’s 4 Nations Face-Off game against Sweden shorthanded. An already short bench has gotten shorter. Forward Brady Tkachuk has suffered an undisclosed injury and will not return to Monday’s game. Tkachuk Injury Brady Tkachuk is officially done for the night. \u2014 Dan Rosen (@drosennhl) February 18, 2025 Tkachuk sustained the injury […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3464,"featured_media":462558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,8091,4547,4548],"tags":[228,2133,2000,701,1799],"class_list":["post-462557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-4-nations-face-off","category-hockey","category-nhl","tag-auston-matthews","tag-brady-tkachuk","tag-charlie-mcavoy","tag-matthew-tkachuk","tag-united-states"],"modified_by":"Andrew Willis","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462559,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462557\/revisions\/462559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}