{"id":532782,"date":"2026-03-11T07:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/532782\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T07:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:22:07","slug":"nathan-mackinnon-ejected-from-avalanche-oilers-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/532782\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathan MacKinnon ejected from Avalanche-Oilers game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials ejected Nathan MacKinnon from the Colorado Avalanche\u2019s game Tuesday night late in the second period.<\/p>\n<p>MacKinnon skated hard to the net and tried to redirect a pass from Brock Nelson near the right post. He didn\u2019t and then <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IceMetrix\/status\/2031581024098930708\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">crashed into Edmonton Oilers goaltender Connor Ingram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Oilers\u2019 goalie left the game with an injury. Edmonton defenseman Darnell Nurse made contact with MacKinnon just before he collided with the goalie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t care if he\u2019s injured, not injured, (or) it\u2019s a severe crash, not a severe crash. It\u2019s not a penalty,\u201d Avs coach Jared Bednar said. \u201cIf you put guys into your own goalie, it\u2019s not a penalty. That\u2019s the way I see it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The officials called it a major penalty for goalie interference, then confirmed the call after a lengthy review. MacKinnon was then assessed a game misconduct as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think he tried to take the goalie out,\u201d Avs goaltender Mackenzie Blackwood said. \u201cHis route was good. He was mid-to-high crease and he was kind of leaned on. I don\u2019t think it was a five. Maybe a two, but I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.denverpost.com\/dp\/preference\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Want more Avalanche news? Sign up for the Avalanche Insider to get all our NHL analysis.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials ejected Nathan MacKinnon from the Colorado Avalanche\u2019s game Tuesday night late in the second period. MacKinnon skated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,29935,90684,7522,3914,61995,38159,575,85],"class_list":["post-532782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-avalanche","tag-brock-nelson","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-latest-headlines","tag-more-avalanche-news","tag-nathan-mackinnon","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532782","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=532782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}