{"id":800304,"date":"2026-07-14T19:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/800304\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T19:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:14:11","slug":"brock-nelson-played-elite-two-way-hockey-in-golden-2025-26-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/800304\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock Nelson Played Elite Two-Way Hockey in Golden 2025-26 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock\u00a0Nelson\u2019s\u00a0incredible\u00a02025-26 season included an Olympic gold medal,\u00a0reaching the 1,000-game mark, scoring 30\u00a0goals\u00a0and being voted a finalist for the Frank J. Selke Trophy, given\u00a0\u201cto the forward who best excels in the defensive aspects of the game.\u201d\u00a0Among players with at least 500 face-offs taken in 2025-26, Nelson was one of 10 to post at least 30 goals and win at least 50% of their face-offs.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In his first full season with the Avs, Nelson posted 65 goals (33g\/32a) in 81 regular-season games\u00a0while ranking third among Colorado forwards in shorthanded time on ice for the NHL\u2019s best penalty kill, being on the ice for just 10 power-play goals against.\u00a0Nelson\u00a0also finished tied for third in the NHL with nine game-winning goals, including an overtime tally against the Washington Capitals on March 22nd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brock\u00a0Nelson\u2019s\u00a0incredible\u00a02025-26 season included an Olympic gold medal,\u00a0reaching the 1,000-game mark, scoring 30\u00a0goals\u00a0and being voted a finalist for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-800304","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\/800304","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=800304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}