{"id":454195,"date":"2026-02-07T09:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T09:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/454195\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T09:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T09:07:09","slug":"bruins-charlie-mcavoy-posts-photo-of-face-injury-after-high-hit-by-panthers-sandis-vilmanis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/454195\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruins&#8217; Charlie McAvoy Posts Photo of Face Injury After High Hit By Panthers&#8217; Sandis Vilmanis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Boston Bruins defenseman Charlie McAvoy posted a photo of his swollen face after taking an elbow to the head from Florida Panthers left wing Sandis Vilmanis in the first period of his team&#8217;s 5-4 shootout road loss on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The tough-as-nails McAvoy exited the game but returned before the second period and finished the contest. He played 22 minutes and five seconds and registered an assist and two blocked shots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The 28-year-old McAvoy, who has played all nine of his NHL seasons with the Bruins, will now play for Team USA at the Winter Olympics. The men&#8217;s hockey tournament begins on Wednesday, and the Americans begin their schedule on Thursday against Latvia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston Bruins defenseman Charlie McAvoy posted a photo of his swollen face after taking an elbow to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-454195","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\/454195","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=454195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}