{"id":697041,"date":"2026-05-27T03:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/697041\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T03:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:31:13","slug":"avalanches-valeri-nichushkin-out-for-game-4-vs-golden-knights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/697041\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche&#8217;s Valeri Nichushkin out for Game 4 vs. Golden Knights"},"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> will try to extend their season without one of their most important forwards.<\/p>\n<p><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> is not in the lineup for Tuesday&#8217;s must-win Game 4 after suffering a lower-body injury in Game 3.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sn-player-post-link\" data-player=\"9f86cf0b-416d-4408-a080-9d638f52d006\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/joel-kiviranta\/9f86cf0b-416d-4408-a080-9d638f52d006\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Joel Kiviranta<\/a> will enter the lineup in his place. He last played in Game 5 of the second round against the Minnesota Wild. <\/p>\n<p>Nichushkin missed the entire third period of Game 3 with the injury, but how it happened is unclear. He has two goals and four points in 12 playoff games after scoring 17 goals and 49 points in 72 regular-season games.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan MacKinnon, who was also injured in Game 3, is in the lineup.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch Game 4 on Sportsnet and Sportsnet+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Colorado Avalanche will try to extend their season without one of their most important forwards. Valeri Nichushkin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-697041","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\/697041","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=697041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}