{"id":537035,"date":"2026-03-15T01:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T01:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/537035\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T01:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T01:31:08","slug":"san-jose-sharks-forward-igor-chernyshov-exits-against-montreal-canadiens-after-scary-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/537035\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks forward Igor Chernyshov exits against Montreal Canadiens after scary fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MONTREAL \u2014 <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> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/igor-chernyshov\/8484994\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/igor-chernyshov\/8484994\" target=\"_blank\">Igor Chernyshov<\/a> left Saturday\u2019s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/montreal-canadiens\/8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/montreal-canadiens\/8\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> after a scary fall early in the first period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Chernyshov was exiting San Jose\u2019s end roughly 20 seconds into the game when he collided with Canadiens defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/mike-matheson\/8476875\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/mike-matheson\/8476875\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Matheson<\/a> and fell hard, sliding headfirst along the ice and bloodying his face.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 20-year-old winger attempted to stand twice but lost balance both times as a linesman tried to hold him upright.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sharks trainers rushed onto the ice and helped Chernyshov to the dressing room as the Bell Centre crowd looked on quietly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Sharks announced during the first intermission that Chernyshov would not return to the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadiens released a statement on social media, saying their thoughts were with Chernyshov.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 14, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2014 San Jose Sharks forward Igor Chernyshov left Saturday\u2019s game against the Montreal Canadiens after a scary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-537035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537035","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=537035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}