{"id":550885,"date":"2026-04-12T05:48:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T05:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/550885\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T05:48:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T05:48:42","slug":"avalanches-jared-bednar-taken-to-hospital-after-being-hit-in-face-with-puck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/550885\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche&#8217;s Jared Bednar taken to hospital after being hit in face with puck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/colorado-avalanche\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"colorado-avalanche\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a> coach Jared Bednar was taken to a hospital after being hit with a puck on his right cheek during\u00a0a 3-2 overtime loss to the Vegas\u00a0Golden Knights on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>A team spokesperson said Bednar was fully alert and conscious and went to the hospital for a CT scan and further evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>Bednar was standing behind the Colorado bench when a puck flew off of the stick of Knights defenceman Keegan Kolesar, 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<p>Assistant coach Dave Hakstol took over Bednar\u2019s duties for the remainder of the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s certainly a little unnerving. It\u2019s scary when the pucks are flying in there,\u201d assistant coach Nolan Pratt said after the game. \u201cIt happens all the time, and unfortunately, tonight, so it takes a little second to sort of recalibrate and then get back to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Avalanche travel to Edmonton on Sunday to begin a two-game road trip. It hasn\u2019t been determined if Bednar will accompany the team. Colorado, with 115 points,\u00a0clinched the top overall seed\u00a0Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado also lost defenceman Josh Manson to an upper-body injury late in the second period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s being evaluated so we\u2019ll see how it is (Sunday),\u201d Pratt said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER \u2014 Colorado Avalanche coach Jared Bednar was taken to a hospital after being hit with a puck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5129],"tags":[149,5317,5,4,74,39,5316],"class_list":{"0":"post-550885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vegas-golden-knights","8":"tag-golden-knights","9":"tag-goldenknights","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-vegas","13":"tag-vegas-golden-knights","14":"tag-vegasgoldenknights"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116390166755790334","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550885","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=550885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}