{"id":504416,"date":"2026-02-26T03:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T03:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/504416\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T03:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T03:10:07","slug":"avalanches-nathan-mackinnon-out-vs-mammoth-for-maintenance-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/504416\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche&#8217;s Nathan MacKinnon out vs. Mammoth for maintenance reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <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=\"noopener nofollow\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a> will be without a key player as the top team in the NHL returns from the Olympic break. <\/p>\n<p>MacKinnon, who played for Team Canada at the Winter Olympics in Milano Cortina, appeared banged up after a heavy collision with France&#8217;s Pierre Crinon during the preliminary round. The 30-year-old did not miss any games throughout the tournament. <\/p>\n<p>MacKinnon has played a key role in Colorado&#8217;s success this season, racking up 40 goals and 93 points in 55 games this season. The 37-9-9 Avalanche sit first in the NHL, with six points separating them and the second-place Tampa Bay Lightning.<\/p>\n<p>Also returning for the Mammoth is third-year Logan Cooley, who is playing for the first time since Dec. 5. The 21-year-old has 14 goals and 23 points in 29 games this season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Colorado Avalanche will be without a key player as the top team in the NHL returns from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-504416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504416","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=504416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}