{"id":360971,"date":"2025-12-21T01:33:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T01:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/360971\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T01:33:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T01:33:16","slug":"blackhawks-frank-nazar-out-approximately-4-weeks-after-taking-puck-to-the-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/360971\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackhawks\u2019 Frank Nazar out approximately 4 weeks after taking puck to the face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Chicago Blackhawks forward Frank Nazar plays the puck during the second period against the Montreal Canadiens at the Bell Centre.\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/USATSI_27846758-scaled-e1766267455720-1024x683.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"responsive\" class=\"image-next-root\" style=\"border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0;border:none;margin:auto;display:block;width:0;height:0;min-width:100%;max-width:100%;min-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-fit:cover\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Article_ImageCaptionCredit__mkXi_ article-image-caption-credit Typography_body1__xfKuc inherit Typography_base__jzSqr\">Frank Nazar, a 2022 first-round pick, was recently promoted to No. 1 center due to Connor Bedard&#8217;s injury. Eric Bolte \/ Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Already without Connor Bedard, the Chicago Blackhawks were hit with another injury to a promising young player Saturday when Frank Nazar took a puck to the face in the first period against the Ottawa Senators and was ruled out of the remainder of the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019ll miss time for sure. Approximately four weeks probably,\u201d Blackhawks head coach Jeff Blashill said after the game. \u201cSo he\u2019ll be out for a while.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Frank Nazar takes a puck to the face and heads to the dressing room. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4NTB2zx9Ol\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/4NTB2zx9Ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TSN (@TSN_Sports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSN_Sports\/status\/2002474273936380319?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Senators defenseman Jordan Spence one-timed a shot from the left circle at 5:08 of the first period, and the puck deflected off Tyler Bertuzzi\u2019s stick and struck Nazar on his right cheek. Nazar grabbed for his face and immediately skated off the ice under his own power. The Blackhawks announced before the second period that Nazar wouldn\u2019t return to the game.<\/p>\n<p>Nazar, a 2022 first-round pick, was recently promoted to No. 1 center due to Bedard\u2019s injury, and Saturday marked the fourth game with Nazar in that position. Nazar has six goals and 15 assists in 33 games this season. In the offseason, he signed a seven-year contract extension with a $6.59 million cap hit, which will go into effect next season.<\/p>\n<p>The Blackhawks moved Ryan Greene, another young center, up the lineup to replace Nazar after the injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Blackhawks are already without Bedard for an unknown amount of time. He is expected to be reassessed in early January after suffering a shoulder injury on Dec. 12.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frank Nazar, a 2022 first-round pick, was recently promoted to No. 1 center due to Connor Bedard&#8217;s injury.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[4824,385,1319,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-360971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-chicago-blackhawks","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-ottawa-senators","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360971","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=360971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}