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Apr 12, 2026, 12:01 AM ET<\/p>\n

DENVER — Colorado Avalanche<\/a> coach Jared Bednar was taken to a hospital after being hit by a puck on his right cheek during a 3-2 overtime loss to the Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

A team spokesperson said Bednar was fully alert and went to the hospital for a CT scan and further evaluation.<\/p>\n

Bednar was standing behind the Colorado bench when a puck flew off the stick of Knights defenseman Keegan Kolesar<\/a>, over the boards and hit Bednar with 16:39 left in the third period. He bent over, holding the side of his head, and was helped to the locker room by a trainer.<\/p>\n

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Assistant coach Dave Hakstol took over Bednar’s duties for the remainder of the game.<\/p>\n

“It’s certainly a little unnerving. It’s scary when the pucks are flying in there,” assistant coach Nolan Pratt said after the game. “It happens all the time, and unfortunate tonight, so it takes a little second to sort of recalibrate and then get back to it.”<\/p>\n

The Avalanche travel to Edmonton on Sunday to begin a two-game road trip. It hasn’t been determined if Bednar will accompany the team. Colorado, with 115 points, clinched the top overall seed Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Colorado also lost defenseman Josh Manson<\/a> to an upper-body injury late in the second period.<\/p>\n

“He’s being evaluated so we’ll see how it is [Sunday],” Pratt said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apr 12, 2026, 12:01 AM ET DENVER — Colorado Avalanche coach Jared Bednar was taken to a hospital…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[377],"tags":[5],"class_list":{"0":"post-550873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-hockey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116390084899931250","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550873","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=550873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}