{"id":222895,"date":"2025-10-18T19:22:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T19:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/222895\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T19:22:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T19:22:16","slug":"avalanches-joel-kiviranta-out-indefinitely-with-lower-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/222895\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche&#8217;s Joel Kiviranta out indefinitely with lower-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/colorado-avalanche\/21\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/colorado-avalanche\/21\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a> winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/joel-kiviranta\/8481641\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/joel-kiviranta\/8481641\" target=\"_blank\">Joel Kiviranta<\/a> will be sidelined indefinitely with a lower-body injury, the team announced on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Update: Joel Kiviranta is out indefinitely (lower body)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Colorado Avalanche (@Avalanche) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Avalanche\/status\/1979583563441046003?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 18, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 29-year-old from Finland has yet to tally a point over the first five games this season with the Avs, his third with the franchise. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kiviranta had a career season in 2024-25 with Colorado, scoring 16 goals and seven assists over 79 games. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Colorado re-signed Kiviranta to a one-year, $1.25 million contract this summer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kiviranta has 35 goals and 25 assists over 303 games with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/dallas-stars\/25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/dallas-stars\/25\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Stars<\/a> and Avalanche in his career. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colorado Avalanche winger Joel Kiviranta will be sidelined indefinitely with a lower-body injury, the team announced on Saturday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,49,48,80742,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-222895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-colorado-avalanche-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-21","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}