{"id":554003,"date":"2026-03-22T21:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T21:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/554003\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T21:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T21:33:09","slug":"top-prospect-anton-frondell-expected-to-join-blackhawks-for-nhl-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/554003\/","title":{"rendered":"Top prospect Anton Frondell expected to join Blackhawks for NHL debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO \u2014 Anton Frondell, the No. 3 overall pick in the 2025 draft, is expected to make his NHL debut with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/chicago-blackhawks\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"chicago-blackhawks\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n<p>Blackhawks coach Jeff Blashill said before Sunday\u2019s game against Nashville that Frondell was headed for Chicago from his native Sweden, \u201cWe hope as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And while Blashill stopped short of saying that Frondell would skate with third-year star centre Connor Bedard, the No. 1 pick in the 2023 draft, the coach said the six-foot-two, 200-pound forward would \u201cbe with a good player, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Blackhawks signed Frondell to a three-year, entry-level contract last summer, then lent him to Djurgardens of the Swedish Hockey League, the country&#8217;s top league.<\/p>\n<p>In 43 games as an SHL rookie, Frondell became the fourth 18-year-old to score 20 goals in the league and the first since Daniel Sedin in 1998-99. After helping Sweden win the gold medal at the world junior championships in January, Frondell finished strong with Djurgardens, scoring in 10 of 18 regular-season games before his team was eliminated Saturday in a first-round playoff series.<\/p>\n<p>After Sunday, the Blackhawks play at the New York Islanders, Philadelphia Flyers, New York Rangers and New Jersey Devils on a four-game trip that opens Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Blashill said he&#8217;d know more about Frondell&#8217;s exact debut date on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re just working through flights, stuff like that,\u201d Blashill said. \u201cI know he wants to get here. We want to get him here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once Frondell arrives, he should get ample ice time for rebuilding, last-place Chicago, which entered Sunday at 26-31-12 and in 30th place overall in the 32-team NHL.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProbably in his situation, based on the level of play he&#8217;s had all year, how well he&#8217;s played the last part of the year &#8230; I&#8217;m a &#8216;gonna throw him into the fire&#8217; kind of coach,\u201d Blashill said.<\/p>\n<p>Forward Sacha Boisvert, one of Chicago&#8217;s three first-round picks in 2024, is also expected to join the team shortly after signing a three-year contract last week. The 20-year-old from Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, is awaiting immigration clearance after concluding his season with Boston University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014 Anton Frondell, the No. 3 overall pick in the 2025 draft, is expected to make his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-554003","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\/554003","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=554003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}