{"id":921594,"date":"2026-07-08T20:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/921594\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T20:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:14:14","slug":"connor-bedard-chicago-blackhawks-star-out-4-months-after-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/921594\/","title":{"rendered":"Connor Bedard: Chicago Blackhawks star out 4 months after surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chicago Blackhawks will be without star center Connor Bedard for at least the first month of the regular season after he underwent surgery on his left shoulder Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n

Bedard will miss about four months while recovering, team physician Dr. Michael Terry announced, setting up the fourth-year center for a November return at the earliest.<\/p>\n

While practicing last week in his hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia, Bedard slipped into the boards during a drill<\/a>. He left the ice holding his shoulder in clear pain.<\/p>\n

It was a similar scene to when Bedard injured his right shoulder in the final seconds of the Hawks\u2019 3-2 loss Dec. 12 in St. Louis<\/a>. He was knocked down by center Brayden Schenn on the final faceoff, then skated off the ice with a grimace.<\/p>\n

That injury wound up sidelining Bedard for 12 games. The Hawks went 5-6-1 in that span.<\/p>\n

Bedard fractured his jaw during his rookie season in 2023-24, forcing him to miss 14 games. Barring a quicker-than-expected recovery, he now is slated to miss time for the third of his four NHL seasons.<\/p>\n

The full NHL schedule, which is expanding to 84 regular-season games, will be released July 16 and is expected to begin in late September.<\/p>\n

Bedard\u2019s injury could affect contract extension negotiations with the Hawks, who selected him with the No. 1 pick in the 2023 draft. He is a restricted free agent this summer.<\/p>\n

Bedard, who turns 21 this month, has 203 points (75 goals, 128 assists) in 219 career games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Blackhawks will be without star center Connor Bedard for at least the first month of the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":921595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,291,123097,372009,372011,372010,5386,1818,372012],"class_list":["post-921594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-blackhawks","tag-connor-bedard","tag-connor-bedard-injury","tag-connor-bedard-shoulder","tag-connor-bedard-surgery","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-when-will-connor-bedard-return"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116886193259690064","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921594","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=921594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}