{"id":578895,"date":"2026-04-01T16:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/578895\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T16:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:33:09","slug":"avalanches-makar-to-miss-a-few-games-with-upper-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/578895\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche’s Makar to miss ‘a few’ games with upper-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Colorado Avalanche<\/a> will have to play without their star defenceman for a little while, but can still take a sigh of relief. <\/p>\n

Cale Makar<\/a> is expected to miss a few games with an upper-body injury in order to rest ahead of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, per head coach Jared Bednar.<\/p>\n

Bednar said Wednesday during his show on Altitude radio that Makar is “going to be OK. He’s going to miss some time here. Nothing serious, though.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Avalanche host the Vancouver Canucks on Wednesday night as they try to move closer to clinching the league’s best record.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old suffered the injury in Monday’s win over the Calgary Flames. He took a hit from Calgary forward Adam Klapka in the second period that led to him being looked at by the team’s medical staff. <\/p>\n

Makar managed to finish the second frame, but didn’t make it out for the third.<\/p>\n

Before being injured, the two-time Norris winner logged three assists.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe best thing to do is shut him down and rest him here for a few games,\u201d Bednar said on his show. \u201cThere’s nothing that we’re overly concerned about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Makar, a two-time Norris Trophy winner, is third among defencemen this season with 75 points (20 goals, 55 assists).<\/p>\n

The Avalanche hold a comfortable eight-point lead in the Central Division, while leading the NHL with 108 points. <\/p>\n

— with files from The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Colorado Avalanche will have to play without their star defenceman for a little while, but can still…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-578895","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\/578895","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=578895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}