{"id":294438,"date":"2025-11-16T04:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T04:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/294438\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T04:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T04:01:07","slug":"bruins-charlie-mcavoy-exits-after-slap-shot-hits-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/294438\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruins&#8217; Charlie McAvoy exits after slap shot hits mouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nov 15, 2025, 10:12 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>MONTREAL &#8212; Boston defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3988803\/charlie-mcavoy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie McAvoy<\/a> was hit in the mouth by a slap shot, and he left the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/bos\/boston-bruins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bruins<\/a>&#8216; game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/mtl\/montreal-canadiens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> midway through the second period Saturday night and didn&#8217;t return.<\/p>\n<p>With the Canadiens on a power play, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4352732\/noah-dobson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Noah Dobson<\/a>&#8216;s one-timer appeared to deflect off Boston forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4587985\/mark-kastelic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Kastelic<\/a> before hitting McAvoy.<\/p>\n<p>McAvoy immediately covered his face and dropped to the ice, while a team doctor rushed from the bench to help him.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old American then hurried to the dressing room after bleeding on the ice. Teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3042021\/nikita-zadorov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikita Zadorov<\/a> was seen trying to retrieve lost teeth.<\/p>\n<p>Boston led 2-1 when McAvoy left and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/game\/_\/gameId\/401802636\/bruins-canadiens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">went on to win 3-2<\/a>. The Bruins improved to 12-8-0, winning for the eighth time in nine games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov 15, 2025, 10:12 PM ET MONTREAL &#8212; Boston defenseman Charlie McAvoy was hit in the mouth by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-294438","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\/294438","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=294438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}