{"id":342384,"date":"2025-12-13T10:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T10:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/342384\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T10:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T10:22:07","slug":"chicago-blackhawks-connor-bedard-sustains-apparent-injury-in-dying-seconds-of-loss-to-st-louis-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/342384\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Blackhawks\u2019 Connor Bedard sustains apparent injury in dying seconds of loss to St. Louis Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/chicago-blackhawks\/16\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/chicago-blackhawks\/16\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/&#009;connor-bedard-991016\/8484144\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/&#009;connor-bedard-991016\/8484144\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Bedard<\/a> appeared to sustain an upper-body in the final moments of his team\u2019s 3-2 loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/st-louis-blues\/19\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/st-louis-blues\/19\" target=\"_blank\">St. Louis Blues<\/a> on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The incident occurred with 0.8 seconds remaining in the third period with the Blackhawks trying to score the equalizer, when Bedard got tangled up with Blues captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/brayden-schenn\/8475170\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/brayden-schenn\/8475170\" target=\"_blank\">Brayden Schenn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bedard went down in pain and went to his team\u2019s dressing room clutching his shoulder as the period ended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Head coach Jeff Blashill told reporters after the game that the play was a \u201cfreak accident\u201d and that Bedard won\u2019t be available to the team for Saturday\u2019s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/detroit-red-wings\/17\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/detroit-red-wings\/17\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Red Wings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Blashill added that he is expecting another update about Bedard\u2019s condition on Monday.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Connor Bedard won\u2019t play tomorrow vs. Detroit, Jeff Blashill said.<\/p>\n<p>Another update is expected Monday, Blashill said. He called it a \u201cfreak accident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Pope (@BenPopeCST) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenPopeCST\/status\/1999691698864091570?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 13, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 5-foot-10 centre skated 20:46 in the game, recording two assists and two shots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bedard is tied for third in NHL scoring with 44 points and is tied for fourth in the league with 19 goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The North Vancouver native is among the candidates who is being considered for Canada\u2019s Olympic team in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Chicago sits fourth in the Central Division with a 13-12-6 record and is one point behind the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/san-jose-sharks\/28\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/san-jose-sharks\/28\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Sharks<\/a> for the final wild-card spot in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Blackhawks forward Connor Bedard appeared to sustain an upper-body in the final moments of his team\u2019s 3-2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,49,48,76045,81618,448,82],"class_list":["post-342384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chicago-blackhawks-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-16","tag-connor-bedard-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8484144","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}