{"id":683025,"date":"2026-10-10T02:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T02:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/683025\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T02:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T02:00:26","slug":"chicago-blackhawks-frank-nazar-receives-two-game-suspension-for-illegal-check-to-head-of-islanders-horvat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/683025\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Blackhawks\u2019 Frank Nazar receives two-game suspension for illegal check to head of Islanders\u2019 Horvat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/chicago-blackhawks\/16\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/chicago-blackhawks\/16\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/frank-nazar\/8483493\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/frank-nazar\/8483493\" target=\"_blank\">Frank Nazar<\/a> has been given a two-game suspension for an illegal check to the head of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-york-islanders\/2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-york-islanders\/2\" target=\"_blank\">New York Islanders<\/a> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/bo-horvat\/8477500\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/bo-horvat\/8477500\" target=\"_blank\">Bo Horvat<\/a>, it was announced by the Department of Player Safety on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The incident occurred late in the third period of the Islanders\u2019 4-1 win over the Blackhawks on Thursday. As Horvat shot the puck from his own end for an empty-net goal, Nazar delivered a high hit on the Islanders captain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A scrum broke out between the two teams and Nazar was given a match penalty after review.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Horvat appeared to be alright after the hit, though he did not a take another shift with just 93 seconds left after his empty-netter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 22-year-old Nazar leads Chicago with two goals through five games while adding an assist thus far. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In 127 career games with the Blackhawks, the 5-foot-10, 190-pound centre has recorded 30 goals and 41 assists for 71 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Blackhawks forward Frank Nazar has been given a two-game suspension for an illegal check to the head&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4759,32837,5,33187,4],"class_list":["post-683025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-chicago-blackhawks-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-16","tag-hockey","tag-new-york-islanders-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-2","tag-nhl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117414148403823220","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683025","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=683025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}