{"id":602325,"date":"2026-04-14T00:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/602325\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T00:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:34:10","slug":"blackhawks-forward-frank-nazar-loses-2-teeth-will-wear-cage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/602325\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackhawks forward Frank Nazar loses 2 teeth, will wear cage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apr 13, 2026, 06:51 PM ET<\/p>\n

CHICAGO — Forward Frank Nazar<\/a> lost two of his top front teeth when he was hit by a puck in the second period of the Chicago Blackhawks<\/a>‘ 5-3 loss to the St. Louis Blues<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Nazar planned to play Monday night against Buffalo with a protective cage over his face.<\/p>\n

“Got it pretty good, but could be a lot worse,” Nazar said. “So pretty thankful.”<\/p>\n

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The 22-year-old Nazar was sidelined for a month after he broke his jaw when he was hit in the face by a puck during a 6-4 loss at Ottawa on Dec. 20. He returned on Jan. 22 at Carolina.<\/p>\n

Nazar, a first-round pick in the 2022 draft, has 15 goals and 26 assists in 64 games in his third NHL season. He agreed to a $46.2 million, seven-year extension with Chicago in August.<\/p>\n

Defenseman Ethan Del Mastro<\/a> also is expected to play against the Sabres. The 23-year-old Del Mastro was scratched on Saturday because of an unspecified injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apr 13, 2026, 06:51 PM ET CHICAGO — Forward Frank Nazar lost two of his top front teeth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-602325","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\/602325","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=602325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}