{"id":404426,"date":"2026-01-13T02:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T02:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/404426\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T02:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T02:11:10","slug":"connor-bedard-ruled-out-for-showdown-vs-connor-mcdavid-oilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/404426\/","title":{"rendered":"Connor Bedard ruled out for showdown vs. Connor McDavid, Oilers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nhl\/chicago-blackhawks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> are preparing to take on Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers on Monday night. <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nhl\/nhl-stories\/clutchpoints-nhl-power-rankings-week-15-are-sabres-red-wings-for-real\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Blackhawks did rise in ClutchPoints&#8217; latest NHL Power Rankings<\/a>, but they remain near the bottom of the league at this time. A win over Edmonton would be huge, but unfortunately, they will be without star forward <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/tag\/connor-bedard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Bedard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bedard has been ruled out of Monday&#8217;s matchup, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FriedgeHNIC\/status\/2010877750492422407\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">as reported by<\/a> Sportsnet&#8217;s Elliotte Friedman. \u201cConnor Bedard will not play vs EDM tonight. He has the flu,\u201d Friedman reported on social media before the game.<\/p>\n<p>Bedard is an integral part to any success the Blackhawks have. This season, the former No. 1 pick has transformed into one of the league&#8217;s best players. Entering play Monday, the Blackhawks star has 19 goals and 46 points in 33 games.<\/p>\n<p>Bedard was once a candidate for the Hart Trophy as NHL MVP. However, he missed nearly a month due to injury, which has left him well behind the eight ball. Still, the Blackhawks star remains an extremely talented player who can make Chicago better when he&#8217;s on the ice.<\/p>\n<p>The Blackhawks are currently 6th in the Central Division with a record of 19-19-7. Despite being without Bedard for a month, Chicago remains in contention for a Wild Card spot. They only trail the Los Angeles Kings by three points at this time. However, they do have to contend with three other non-playoff teams ahead of them in the race.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, Bedard&#8217;s flu isn&#8217;t anything serious. Having him out for this game stings either way, but hopefully his absence lasts this one game. Let&#8217;s see how Chicago responds to not having its star in the lineup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Blackhawks are preparing to take on Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers on Monday night. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5125],"tags":[96,508,198,146,5300,5,4,7901,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-404426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton-oilers","8":"tag-chicago-blackhawks","9":"tag-connor-bedard","10":"tag-edmonton","11":"tag-edmonton-oilers","12":"tag-edmontonoilers","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-nhl-injury","16":"tag-oilers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115885367891932907","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}