{"id":583947,"date":"2026-04-04T00:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/583947\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T00:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:47:08","slug":"makar-roy-ekman-larsson-gudas-gauthier-mintyukov-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/583947\/","title":{"rendered":"Makar, Roy, Ekman-Larsson, Gudas, Gauthier, Mintyukov \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n By Josh Erickson<\/a> |
\n at April 3, 2026 5:40 pm <\/p>\n

The Avalanche have received largely good news so far on the status of injured star\u00a0Cale Makar<\/a>\u00a0and trade deadline pickup\u00a0Nicolas Roy<\/a>. Head coach Jared Bednar made it clear on Wednesday that Makar will be back before the playoffs<\/a>. He\u00a0said the same about Roy earlier in the week<\/a> after he shed his no-contact designation at practice. However, neither will be re-entering the lineup during their back-to-back this weekend, Bednar told Evan Rawal of the Denver Gazette<\/a>. They will not travel to Dallas for tomorrow\u2019s tilt against the Stars but could accompany the team as they head out to face the Blues on the road next Tuesday. They were tossed around by the Canucks 8-6 in their lone outing without Makar so far as he deals with an upper-body injury, while they\u2019ve managed a 3-2-0 record in five games without Roy since he went down with an upper-body issue on March 22.<\/p>\n

Other injury notes from around the league:<\/p>\n

Maple Leafs defenseman\u00a0Oliver Ekman-Larsson<\/a>\u00a0could miss a game because of an injury designation for the first time all season. Toronto was eliminated from playoff contention with last night\u2019s loss to the Sharks, and they also lost Ekman-Larsson midway through the game with a lower-body injury. He hasn\u2019t been ruled out entirely for tomorrow\u2019s game against the Kings but is highly doubtful to play, Luke Fox of Sportsnet<\/a> relays. The 34-year-old has been good for eight goals and 38 points through 73 games, leading Toronto defenders in scoring while producing his best point-per-game total since 2020-21, his final season with the Coyotes.
\nWhile Ducks captain\u00a0Radko Gudas<\/a>\u00a0hopped back into the lineup against Toronto earlier in the week after ending Leafs captain\u00a0Auston Matthews<\/a>\u2018 season with a knee-on-knee hit, he wasn\u2019t fully recovered from a lower-body injury of his own that he sustained back on March 26 against the Flames. After racking up 17 penalty minutes against the Leafs, he bowed back out of the lineup for Wednesday\u2019s loss to the Sharks. He won\u2019t be able to go tonight against the Blues, either, head coach Joel Quenneville<\/a> said (via Derek Lee of The Hockey News<\/a>). Neither will fellow rearguard\u00a0Pavel Mintyukov<\/a>\u00a0nor leading scorer Cutter Gauthier<\/a>, for that matter, a blow for their hopes to gain some separation from the streaking Oilers for the Pacific Division title. Mintyukov has also missed two of the last three with a lower-body issue, while Gauthier will miss his second straight game with the upper-body injury he sustained against Toronto in an early collision with teammate\u00a0Leo Carlsson<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Josh Erickson | at April 3, 2026 5:40 pm The Avalanche have received largely good news so…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[1419,64,63,59632,7522,283774,575,53439,285940,170626,253290,85,2370],"class_list":{"0":"post-583947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-anaheim-ducks","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-cale-makar","12":"tag-colorado-avalanche","13":"tag-cutter-gauthier","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-nicolas-roy","16":"tag-oliver-ekman-larsson","17":"tag-pavel-mintyukov","18":"tag-radko-gudas","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583947","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=583947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}