{"id":927776,"date":"2026-10-10T12:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T12:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/927776\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T12:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T12:54:13","slug":"blackhawks-frank-nazar-suspended-two-games-for-illegal-check-to-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/927776\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackhawks&#8217; Frank Nazar suspended two games for illegal check to head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a data-team=\"chicago-blackhawks\" data-league=\"nhl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/chicago-blackhawks\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> forward was suspended two games for an illegal check to the head on New York Islanders captain Bo Horvat, the NHL&#8217;s department of player safety announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first suspension for the 22-year-old. <\/p>\n<p>The ban stems from a hit that came with less than two minutes remaining in Thursday&#8217;s game, the Islanders leading 3-1 and the Blackhawks&#8217; net empty.<\/p>\n<p>After a blocked shot, Horvat collected the puck in the defensive end and fired the puck into the empty cage at the other end of the ice.<\/p>\n<p>Just after Horvat released the puck, Nazar caught him up high with a shoulder to the head area.<\/p>\n<p>Horvat did get to his feet, but Islanders head coach Peter DeBoer <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ethan_sears\/status\/2108384429475533110?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">told reporters<\/a> after the game that the captain was being evaluated.<\/p>\n<p>The hit caused a huge scrum, with Blackhawks forward Tyler Bertuzzi and Logan Stanley receiving 10-minute misconducts to go along with Nazar&#8217;s match penalty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Blackhawks forward was suspended two games for an illegal check to the head on New York&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":927777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":["post-927776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927776","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=927776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}