{"id":516082,"date":"2026-03-05T14:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T14:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/516082\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T14:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T14:02:08","slug":"highly-touted-nhl-prospect-ethan-belchetz-breaks-clavicle-likely-done-for-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/516082\/","title":{"rendered":"Highly touted NHL prospect Ethan Belchetz breaks clavicle, likely done for season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ethan Belchetz\u2019s season with the Windsor Spitfires is in jeopardy after breaking his left clavicle this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Ontario Hockey League (OHL) team announced the injury Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The six foot five inch power forward will get surgery and has been sidelined for an \u201cindefinite period of time,\u201d according to the Spitfire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cEthan is an important part of our team both on and off the ice,\u201d said Bill Bowler, Windsor\u2019s general manager.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWhile this is a tough setback, we know Ethan will attack the rehab process with the same commitment and professionalism he brings every day. Our entire organization is behind him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Belchetz, who was taken first overall in the 2024 OHL draft, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/draft\/prospects\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:widely considered a top 10 pick;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">widely considered a top 10 pick<\/a> for the NHL draft this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At the time of his injury, he lead the Spitfires with 34 goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Windsor has already qualified for the playoffs and has 8 regular season games remaining.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Ethan Belchetz scores during the second period of a CHL-USA Prospects Challenge hockey action against Team USA in Calgary on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"692\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/21bfdd5cdc0dad2a2ca2ef6177096c23.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ethan Belchetz celebrates a goal by a teammate during the second period of a CHL-USA Prospects Challenge game in 2025. (Jeff McIntosh\/The Canadian Press)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ethan Belchetz\u2019s season with the Windsor Spitfires is in jeopardy after breaking his left clavicle this week. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[204324,49,48,46034,448,155687,82,112900],"class_list":["post-516082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-bill-bowler","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ethan-belchetz","tag-nhl","tag-ontario-hockey-league","tag-sports","tag-windsor-spitfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516082","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=516082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}