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Had the major penalty held up, Nathan MacKinnon would have faced a one-game suspension were he to receive another game misconduct for a physical infraction in his next 41 regular-season games. Ron Chenoy \/ Imagn Images<\/p>\n
March 12, 2026Updated 5:10 pm EDT<\/p>\n
Nathan MacKinnon\u2019s slate has been cleaned.<\/p>\n
The NHL rescinded a major penalty and game misconduct the Colorado Avalanche superstar initially received for colliding with Edmonton Oilers goaltender Connor Ingram on Tuesday night<\/a>, MacKinnon told reporters Thursday, according to The Denver Post\u2019s Corey Masisak<\/a>.<\/p>\n The decision is relevant primarily because it takes away the possibility of MacKinnon facing\u00a0a one-game suspension were he to receive another game misconduct for a physical infraction in his next 41 regular-season games.<\/p>\n MacKinnon, attempting to receive a pass while on a second-period power play, crashed into Ingram in the crease after contact with Oilers defenseman Darnell Nurse. The call was reviewed and upheld, ultimately forcing the Avalanche to kill more than four minutes\u2019 worth of short-handed time. Ingram left the game but has since returned to action. Edmonton came back to beat the Avs 4-3.<\/p>\n Postgame, Avalanche coach Jared Bednar was heated over the situation.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s no chance he hits the goalie if Nurse doesn\u2019t run into him,\u201d Bednar told reporters. \u201cI don\u2019t care if (Ingram is) injured, not injured, if it\u2019s a severe crash, not a severe crash \u2014 it\u2019s not a penalty. If you put guys into your own goalie, it\u2019s not a penalty. \u2026 The goalie\u2019s hurt, so it\u2019s five (minutes). Again, I really don\u2019t give a crap if the goalie\u2019s hurt. That\u2019s on their D-man, not our guy.\u201d<\/p>\n MacKinnon, the odds-on favorite to win the Hart Trophy as the NHL\u2019s most valuable player, started Thursday tied for second in the league in points (104) and first in goals (43). The league-leading Avalanche play the Seattle Kraken on Friday night.<\/p>\n Mar 12, 2026<\/p>\n Connections: Sports Edition<\/p>\n Spot the pattern. Connect the terms<\/p>\n Find the hidden link between sports terms<\/p>\n Play today’s puzzle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Had the major penalty held up, Nathan MacKinnon would have faced a one-game suspension were he to receive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,7522,3275,575,85],"class_list":["post-536356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536356","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=536356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n