{"id":296063,"date":"2025-11-20T02:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T02:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/296063\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T02:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T02:08:09","slug":"bruins-mcavoy-hit-by-puck-has-surgery-for-facial-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/296063\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruins&#8217; McAvoy, hit by puck, has surgery for facial injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANAHEIM, Calif. &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/bos\/boston-bruins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Bruins<\/a> defenseman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3988803\/charlie-mcavoy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie McAvoy<\/a> had surgery Wednesday to repair facial injuries and will be sidelined indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nhl\/story\/_\/id\/46982331\/bruins-charlie-mcavoy-exits-slap-shot-hits-mouth\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/r1563082_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>McAvoy was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nhl\/story\/_\/id\/46982331\/bruins-charlie-mcavoy-exits-slap-shot-hits-mouth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hit in the mouth<\/a> by <a data-player-guid=\"3b78c122-c913-f56d-3f95-127781ccd833\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4352732\/noah-dobson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Noah Dobson<\/a>&#8216;s slap shot Saturday in the second period of Boston&#8217;s 3-2 victory in <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"4110452f-e35d-14fe-8fbb-cdb21e269149\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/mtl\/montreal-canadiens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s doing good,&#8221; Bruins coach Marco Sturm said before Boston&#8217;s game against <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"183c31f7-2eed-15c0-7fa1-a568d20bf3ad\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/ana\/anaheim-ducks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anaheim<\/a>. &#8220;He&#8217;s recovering right now at home. We still don&#8217;t know how long he&#8217;s going to be out for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McAvoy has 14 assists in 19 games this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. &#8212; Boston Bruins defenseman Charlie McAvoy had surgery Wednesday to repair facial injuries and will be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-296063","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\/296063","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=296063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}