{"id":295585,"date":"2025-11-19T20:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/295585\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T20:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:49:09","slug":"mcavoy-has-surgery-out-indefinitely-for-bruins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/295585\/","title":{"rendered":"McAvoy has surgery, out indefinitely for Bruins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/charlie-mcavoy-8479325\" title=\"Charlie McAvoy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie McAvoy<\/a> will be out indefinitely after having facial surgery, the Boston Bruins announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The defenseman was struck in the face by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/noah-dobson-8480865\" title=\"Noah Dobson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Noah Dobson<\/a> slap shot in the second period of a 3-2 win against the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday and taken to a hospital. McAvoy did not play in a 3-1 loss at the Carolina Hurricanes on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s doing good. He&#8217;s recovering right now at home, and we still don&#8217;t know how long he&#8217;s going to be out for,&#8221; Bruins coach Marco Sturm said Wednesday prior to their game at the Anaheim Ducks (10 p.m. ET; Victory+, NESN, TVAS2, SN360).<\/p>\n<p>McAvoy has 14 assists in 19 games this season and leads the Bruins in time on ice per game (23:46).<\/p>\n<p>Boston is also without forwards <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/elias-lindholm-8477496\" title=\"Elias Lindholm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elias Lindholm<\/a> (lower body), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/viktor-arvidsson-8478042\" title=\"Viktor Arvidsson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Viktor Arvidsson<\/a> (lower body) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/casey-mittelstadt-8479999\" title=\"Casey Mittelstadt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Casey Mittelstadt<\/a> (lower body), and defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/jordan-harris-8480887\" title=\"Jordan Harris\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan Harris<\/a> (ankle surgery).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlie McAvoy will be out indefinitely after having facial surgery, the Boston Bruins announced on Wednesday. The defenseman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-295585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}