{"id":346559,"date":"2025-12-13T15:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T15:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/346559\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T15:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T15:10:09","slug":"what-is-connor-bedards-timeline-to-return-to-blackhawks-after-shoulder-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/346559\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Connor Bedard&#8217;s Timeline to Return to Blackhawks After Shoulder Injury?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Chicago Blackhawks center Connor Bedard will miss at least one game after appearing to suffer a right shoulder injury Friday night during a last-second faceoff against the St. Louis Blues.        <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Blackhawks coach Jeff Blashill, who declined to speculate on whether Bedard would be out long-term, <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r6-6M-x8qkI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">called<\/a> the incident a &#8220;freak accident.&#8221;   <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;He won&#8217;t play tomorrow,&#8221; Blashill said Friday night. &#8220;I won&#8217;t know more info tomorrow&#8230; At some point through the weekend I&#8217;ll know more, so probably have more info come Monday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Bedard fell to the ice and was in visible pain after taking a cross check from Blues forward Brayden Schenn in the final second of Friday night&#8217;s 3-2 loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The center had assisted on each of the Blackhawks&#8217; goals prior to his injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Blackhawks will be without Bedard at least for Saturday night&#8217;s home game against the Detroit Red Wings, leaving Frank Nazar as a potential first-line center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The team is then heading on a three-game Canadian road trip, starting Tuesday at the Toronto Maple Leafs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Bedard was off to the best start of his career through 31 games by racking up 44 points (19 goals, 25 assists) to trail only the Colorado Avalanche&#8217;s Nathan MacKinnon and Edmonton Oilers&#8217; Connor McDavid for the NHL lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Whether the third-year center ultimately misses an extended period of time will have implications not only for the Blackhawks, who sat just one point back of a Western Conference Wild Card spot as of Friday night, but for Team Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Bedard, 20, is a hopeful to make the Canadian roster for the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics in February. Team Canada general manager Doug Armstrong recently <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/doug-armstrong-discusses-canada-olympic-roster-decisions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">said<\/a> he had been &#8220;very impressed&#8221; by both Bedard and 19-year-old San Jose Sharks star Macklin Celebrini so far this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Olympic teams must finalize their rosters by Dec. 31, by which point both Team Canada and the Blackhawks will have more clarity as to the extent of Bedard&#8217;s apparent injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Blackhawks center Connor Bedard will miss at least one game after appearing to suffer a right shoulder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-346559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346559","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=346559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}