Why Connor Bedard isn't playing for Canada at IIHF World Championships
This is painful news for the Blackhawks star.
Why Connor Bedard isn't playing for Canada at IIHF World Championships originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . Connor Bedard is one of the best young Canadian hockey players in the NHL.
The Chicago Blackhawks center just missed out on making the Olympic team, which likely had him looking forward to this summer's IIHF World Championships. It turns out Bedard won't get to play, though. The news came out on Friday, and it's a bummer for Bedard.
MORE: Sidney Crosby is a bad omen for Connor McDavid Why isn't Connor Bedard playing at IIHF Worlds? This dates back to an injury Bedard sustained midway through the NHL season. He hurt his shoulder on a faceoff, and it forced him to miss 12 games.
Bedard would come back and play the rest of the season, but he wasn't fully healthy. "(Bedard) really wanted to go, but was told the best thing for next season was to rehab his injury and skip the event," NHL insider Elliotte Friedman wrote on X on Friday morning. "So that is the decision.