{"id":383954,"date":"2026-01-01T03:47:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/383954\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T03:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:47:16","slug":"mackinnon-scores-400th-nhl-goal-for-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/383954\/","title":{"rendered":"MacKinnon scores 400th NHL goal for Avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/nathan-mackinnon-8477492\" title=\"Nathan MacKinnon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan MacKinnon<\/a> scored his 400th goal for the Colorado Avalanche on Wednesday against the St. Louis Blues at Ball Arena.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old forward reached the milestone by scoring at 3:13 of the first period from the edge of the crease, putting in a pass from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/josh-manson-8476312\" title=\"Josh Manson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Manson<\/a> at the left post.<\/p>\n<p>Just 1:26 later, MacKinnon added his 401st goal, with a one-timer from the left circle on the rush at 4:39.<\/p>\n<p>He is the 14th active player to reach the milestone and the 114th all time.<\/p>\n<p>MacKinnon leads the League with 34 goals in 39 games this season. He scored 32 goals in 79 games last season and had an NHL career-high 51 goals the prior season, in 2023-24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nathan MacKinnon scored his 400th goal for the Colorado Avalanche on Wednesday against the St. Louis Blues at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-383954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}