{"id":220236,"date":"2026-03-15T02:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T02:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/220236\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T02:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T02:15:12","slug":"san-jose-sharks-forward-igor-chernyshov-exits-against-montreal-canadiens-after-scary-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/220236\/","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":220237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89,127],"class_list":["post-220236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}