{"id":347038,"date":"2025-12-15T16:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T16:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/347038\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T16:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T16:17:07","slug":"bedard-placed-on-injured-reserve-by-blackhawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/347038\/","title":{"rendered":"Bedard placed on injured reserve by Blackhawks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/connor-bedard-8484144\" title=\"Connor Bedard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Bedard<\/a> was placed on injured reserve by the Chicago Blackhawks on Monday. The move is retroactive to Dec. 12.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old center sustained an upper-body injury with one second left in the third period of a 3-2 loss to the St. Louis Blues on Friday while taking a face-off. Blues center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/brayden-schenn-8475170\" title=\"Brayden Schenn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brayden Schenn<\/a> went in for a stick lift and knocked into Bedard, who fell backward to the ice. He was clutching his right shoulder as he headed toward the locker room.<\/p>\n<p>Bedard leads the Blackhawks (13-13-6) with 44 points (19 goals, 25 assists) in 31 games, which ranks fourth in the NHL. The No. 1 pick in the 2023 NHL Draft, he is a potential candidate to play for Team Canada at the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, Brayden Schenn\u2019s a really good hockey player; he\u2019s not trying to do damage to him there,\u201d Blackhawks coach Jeff Blashill said prior to a 4-0 loss to the Detroit Red Wings on Saturday. \u201cHe literally, Connor gets injured before any push happens, to be honest with you. So, it really had no bearing on the play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s super unfortunate &#8212; 0.8 seconds left, we didn\u2019t foresee that happening. That\u2019s the way it goes. That\u2019s the way life goes sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chicago, which begins a three-game road trip at the Toronto Maple Leafs on Tuesday (7 p.m. ET; TSN4, CHSN), recalled goalie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/laurent-brossoit-8476316\" title=\"Laurent Brossoit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Laurent Brossoit<\/a> from his conditioning assignment and defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/ethan-del-mastro-8482807\" title=\"Ethan Del Mastro\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ethan Del Mastro<\/a> from Rockford of the American Hockey League.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/nick-lardis-8484185\" title=\"Nick Lardis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Lardis<\/a> was also recalled from Rockford and made his NHL debut Saturday. Lardis, who logged 15:32 of ice time against Detroit, has 26 points (13 goals, 13 assists) in 24 AHL games this season.<\/p>\n<p>Bedard had 67 points (23 goals, 44 assists) in 82 games last season and 61 points (39 goals, 61 assists) in 68 games in 2023-24 when he won the Calder Trophy, awarded annually to the League\u2019s top rookie. He missed 14 games in his rookie season with a fractured jaw he sustained in January 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO &#8212; Connor Bedard was placed on injured reserve by the Chicago Blackhawks on Monday. The move is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-347038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347038","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=347038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}