{"id":54293,"date":"2025-08-09T01:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T01:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/54293\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T01:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T01:41:10","slug":"nhl-news-avalanche-secure-veteran-left-wing-to-support-nathan-mackinnon-in-2025-26-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/54293\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL News: Avalanche secure veteran left wing to support Nathan MacKinnon in 2025-26 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"mb-[20px] md:mb-[30px] break-word\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/bolavip.com\/en\/topic\/colorado-avalanche\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" class=\"break-word font-articleLinkText text-articleLinkText hover:text-articleLinkTextHover hover:bg-articleLinkTextHoverBg cursor-pointer border-solid border-b-articleLinkTextHover\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a> need to have an exceptional 2025-26 NHL season. Following a solid 2024 campaign, the Central Division club aims to strengthen their roster even further by signing a left wing to support <a href=\"https:\/\/bolavip.com\/en\/topic\/nathan-mackinnon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" class=\"break-word font-articleLinkText text-articleLinkText hover:text-articleLinkTextHover hover:bg-articleLinkTextHoverBg cursor-pointer border-solid border-b-articleLinkTextHover\">Nathan MacKinnon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"mb-[20px] md:mb-[30px] break-word\">The Avalanche last tasted success in the 2021-22 season when they captured the Stanley Cup. Although they have remained contenders since then, the ultimate goal of winning the trophy has yet to be achieved.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"mb-[20px] md:mb-[30px] break-word\">Now, the club is focused on assembling an even stronger roster for the upcoming campaign. Their offense has been bolstered with the addition of a veteran left wing, intended to help the team in the next season.<\/p>\n<p>Avalanche secure veteran left wing for the 2025-26 NHL season<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"mb-[20px] md:mb-[30px] break-word\">With the 2025-26 NHL season fast approaching, all teams are making adjustments to be as competitive as possible. For the Avalanche, the Stanley Cup remains the primary goal \u2014 one they believe they can achieve this year.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"mb-[20px] md:mb-[30px] break-word\">In a boost to their roster, the Avs announced on Friday the signing of a left wing expected to support star Nathan MacKinnon.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"NHL News: Nathan MacKinnon\u2019s Avalanche teammate makes shocking decision to join Connor McDavid\u2019s former sidekick in exotic club\" href=\"https:\/\/bolavip.com\/en\/nhl\/nhl-news-nathan-mackinnons-avalanche-teammate-makes-shocking-decision-to-join-connor-mcdavids-former-sidekick-in-exotic-club\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"article-also-read-embed\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aspect-square max-w-[100px] m-[10px] md:m-0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754703670_592_image\" alt=\"NHL News: Nathan MacKinnon\u2019s Avalanche teammate makes shocking decision to join Connor McDavid\u2019s former sidekick in exotic club\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary my-[13px] uppercase text-alsoReadSeeAlso bg-alsoReadSeeAlsoBackground alsoReadSeeAlso w-fit\">see also<\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full line-clamp-3 md:line-clamp-2 text-alsoReadEmbedTitle font-primary alsoReadLink\">NHL News: Nathan MacKinnon\u2019s Avalanche teammate makes shocking decision to join Connor McDavid\u2019s former sidekick in exotic club<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"mb-[20px] md:mb-[30px] break-word\">The Colorado Avalanche have signed Joel Kiviranta to a one-year deal. Financial details have not been disclosed, but his previous one-year contract with Colorado was worth $775,000.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"break-word\">Kiviranta recorded 23 points (16 goals, seven assists) in 79 regular-season games last year. He is poised to improve those numbers and help make the Avalanche true contenders for the title.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"leading-none\" href=\"https:\/\/bolavip.com\/en\/staff\/ffranco\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ffranco.webp.webp\" alt=\"fernando franco puga\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"rounded-full\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-[14px] leading-[20px] min-h-[72px] md:min-h-[52px] mt-[10px] font-authorSignatureDescription hidden md:block\">Fernando Franco is an accomplished writer and sports journalist who specializes in soccer, NFL, MLB, and MMA. Since joining Bolavip US in 2022, he has significantly broadened his sports journalism repertoire, offering deep insights and comprehensive coverage. Fernando&#8217;s writing career began in 2013, and over the years, he has made notable contributions to leading sports media outlets such as Sopitas.com, Diario AS USA, and Goal. His articles are well-regarded for their depth and analytical approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Colorado Avalanche need to have an exceptional 2025-26 NHL season. Following a solid 2024 campaign, the Central&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,7522,38159,575,85],"class_list":["post-54293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-nathan-mackinnon","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54293","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=54293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}