{"id":443929,"date":"2025-12-13T06:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T06:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/443929\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T06:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T06:32:10","slug":"blackhawks-bedard-hurt-on-last-second-faceoff-out-saturday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/443929\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackhawks&#8217; Bedard hurt on last-second faceoff, out Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">ST. LOUIS &#8212; <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/chi\/chicago-blackhawks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago<\/a> star <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/5149125\/connor-bedard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Connor Bedard<\/a> was injured on a last-second faceoff in a <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/game\/_\/gameId\/401802844\/blackhawks-blues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3-2 loss<\/a> to the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/stl\/st-louis-blues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Louis Blues<\/a> on Friday night and will miss the Blackhawks&#8217; game Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">With 0.8 seconds left, Bedard attempted to win the draw to give Chicago one last chance, but he was knocked down by Blues center <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/5219\/brayden-schenn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brayden Schenn<\/a>. Bedard grasped at his right shoulder and immediately headed to the locker room, accompanied by a trainer, while his teammates remained on the ice and the bench.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;He won&#8217;t play tomorrow,&#8221; Chicago coach Jeff Blashill said of the team&#8217;s game at home against Detroit on Saturday night. &#8220;I won&#8217;t know more info tomorrow, so don&#8217;t ask me tomorrow. At some point through the weekend, I&#8217;ll know more, so I&#8217;d probably have more info come Monday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Asked whether Bedard&#8217;s injury would be only short term, Blashill offered few details.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;I&#8217;d hate to say that without knowing the information,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Until we get the information, again, he&#8217;s not going to play tomorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Bedard ranked fifth in the NHL in points heading into the game, and he assisted on both of Chicago&#8217;s goals in the loss. He now has 12 goals and 25 assists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He was pushed into desperation mode when the Blues iced the puck and a half a second was put back on the clock. Blashill said he&#8217;d have to see the play again, but his initial impression was that nothing dirty occurred on the play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">&#8220;Honestly, I think it&#8217;s a freak accident,&#8221; Blashill said, &#8220;to be honest with you.&#8221;br\/]<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LOUIS &#8212; Chicago star Connor Bedard was injured on a last-second faceoff in a 3-2 loss to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":443930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[204451,204450,960,291,5723,5386,1818,50,293],"class_list":{"0":"post-443929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-204451","9":"tag-bedard-connor","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-blackhawks","12":"tag-espn","13":"tag-il","14":"tag-illinois","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115710862559872211","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}