{"id":429810,"date":"2026-01-27T00:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T00:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/429810\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T00:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T00:50:16","slug":"chicago-blackhawks-send-forward-nick-lardis-back-to-the-minors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/429810\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Blackhawks send forward Nick Lardis back to the minors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Blackhawks assigned forward Nick Lardis to Rockford of the American Hockey League on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old Lardis, one of the team\u2019s top prospects, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/01\/14\/chicago-blackhawks-nick-lardis-callup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">made his NHL debut Dec. 13<\/a>. He had five goals and two assists in 21 games with the Hawks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he\u2019s done a solid job,\u201d coach Jeff Blashill said of Lardis before the move was announced. \u201cHe came in and early on probably was trying to find his way a little bit. I thought he got more confident. So I think he\u2019s done a good job of making a first impression to the coaching staff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Teuvo Ter\u00e4v\u00e4inen is expected to return for Tuesday night\u2019s game at Minnesota. The veteran forward has been sidelined by an upper-body injury since Jan. 12.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawks selected Lardis in the third round of the 2023 draft. He had 71 goals and 46 assists in 65 games last season with Brantford in the Ontario Hockey League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Blackhawks assigned forward Nick Lardis to Rockford of the American Hockey League on Monday. The 20-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5115],"tags":[521,37,96,5263,5,4,20307,492,4445],"class_list":{"0":"post-429810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-blackhawks","8":"tag-blackhawks","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-blackhawks","11":"tag-chicagoblackhawks","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-nick-lardis","15":"tag-rockford-icehogs","16":"tag-teuvo-teravainen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115964322703155498","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429810","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=429810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}