{"id":899867,"date":"2026-09-21T08:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T08:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/899867\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T08:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T08:26:16","slug":"hamilton-and-makar-score-in-preseason-nhl-debuts-as-avalanche-defeats-mammoth-4-1-in-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/899867\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton and Makar Score in Preseason NHL Debuts as Avalanche Defeats Mammoth 4-1 in Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weekend Win<\/p>\n<p>Beckett Hamilton and Taylor Makar scored in their preseason NHL debuts as the Avalanche won 4-1 against the Utah Mammoth on Sunday at Ball Arena.\u00a0Gavin Brindley and Brock Nelson both\u00a0added tallies\u00a0for Colorado, while Martin Necas, Nazem Kadri, Artturi Lehkonen,\u00a0Devon Toews, Brindley and T.J. Hughes all posted an assist.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In net for Colorado, Mackenzie Blackwood stopped all seven shots he faced, while Ilya Nabokov made 16 saves in his preseason NHL debut.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I noticed Brinds (Brindley) right away,&#8221; Avalanche Head Coach Jared Bednar said when asked which players stood out to him. &#8220;The competitiveness, the speed of the game, his skating&#8211; he&#8217;s quick all over the ice. He was relentless on pucks. I put Taylor Makar in that same category. They both end up scoring, too, because of the same type of thing: quickness, effort [and]\u00a0competitiveness. And for me, Hughes kind of stood out, especially on the power play. Smart; just moves the puck with great timing to the right guy. Made a bunch of offensive plays. And Nabokov was great in goal, too&#8230;Blackwood was really good, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Weekend Win Beckett Hamilton and Taylor Makar scored in their preseason NHL debuts as the Avalanche won 4-1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-899867","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\/899867","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=899867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}