{"id":592082,"date":"2026-04-07T21:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/592082\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T21:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:53:08","slug":"avalanches-makar-remains-sidelined-nichushkin-and-roy-return-to-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/592082\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche&#8217;s Makar remains sidelined, Nichushkin and Roy return to lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/colorado-avalanche\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"colorado-avalanche\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a> are still waiting on their top defenceman, but there\u2019s optimism that a return isn\u2019t far off.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Jared Bednar <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cmasisak22\/status\/2041568900551233606\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cmasisak22\/status\/2041568900551233606\" rel=\"nofollow\">told reporters<\/a> Tuesday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/cale-makar\/052c69b3-91a2-4244-811c-cff9ef96a3ea\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"052c69b3-91a2-4244-811c-cff9ef96a3ea\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Cale Makar<\/a> will likely miss \u201ca few more games,\u201d though the team expects the Norris Trophy winner to return before the end of the regular season. <\/p>\n<p>Makar suffered an upper-body injury back on March 30 against 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&#8217;s medical staff.<\/p>\n<p>While Makar remains out, the Avalanche will welcome back reinforcements up front. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/valeri-nichushkin\/d4e95268-3f94-41e2-ba9d-f76fa232ac77\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"d4e95268-3f94-41e2-ba9d-f76fa232ac77\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Valeri Nichushkin<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/nicolas-roy\/e0a887f9-2295-4692-b49d-9ae4104f092e\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"e0a887f9-2295-4692-b49d-9ae4104f092e\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Nicolas Roy<\/a> are both in the lineup against the St. Louis Blues, giving Colorado a boost to its forward group.<\/p>\n<p>To make room, Joel Kiviranta and Zakir Bardakov will sit out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Colorado Avalanche are still waiting on their top defenceman, but there\u2019s optimism that a return isn\u2019t far&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-592082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592082","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=592082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}