{"id":227029,"date":"2025-10-15T17:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/227029\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T17:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:36:08","slug":"blackhawks-nick-foligno-taking-leave-for-daughters-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/227029\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackhawks&#8217; Nick Foligno taking leave for daughter&#8217;s surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oct 15, 2025, 12:01 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>CHICAGO &#8212; Blackhawks captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3535\/nick-foligno\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Foligno<\/a> is taking a leave of absence because his 12-year-old daughter is having follow-up surgery related to congenital heart disease.<\/p>\n<p>The team made the announcement Wednesday and said it had no further comment.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Statement from Nick Foligno and the Chicago Blackhawks. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pXA7W4ZuX6\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/pXA7W4ZuX6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chicago Blackhawks (@NHLBlackhawks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLBlackhawks\/status\/1978483526669386132?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 15, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Foligno is in his third season with Chicago. The forward has no goals and two assists in four games.<\/p>\n<p>Foligno became the 35th captain of the Original Six team in September 2024. His father, Mike, played in the NHL for 15 years, and his brother, Marcus, plays for Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>The Blackhawks had a road game against St. Louis on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 15, 2025, 12:01 PM ET CHICAGO &#8212; Blackhawks captain Nick Foligno is taking a leave of absence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-227029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}