{"id":500744,"date":"2026-02-26T12:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/500744\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T12:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:02:08","slug":"avalanches-nathan-mackinnon-out-vs-mammoth-for-maintenance-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/500744\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche&#8217;s Nathan MacKinnon out vs. Mammoth for maintenance reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a class=\"sn-team-post-link\" data-team=\"colorado-avalanche\" data-league=\"nhl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/colorado-avalanche\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a> were without a key player as the top team in the NHL returned from the Olympic break.<\/p>\n<p>Following Avalanche&#8217;s 4-2 win over the Mammoth, head coach Jared Bednar <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DNVR_Avalanche\/status\/2026897009417007361?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">confirmed<\/a> MacKinnon is expected to play Thursday against the Minnesota Wild.<\/p>\n<p>MacKinnon, who played for Team Canada at the Winter Olympics in Milano Cortina, appeared banged up after a heavy collision with France&#8217;s Pierre Crinon during the preliminary round. He did not miss any games throughout the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old has played a key role in Colorado&#8217;s success this season, racking up 40 goals and 93 points in 55 games this season. <\/p>\n<p>Also returning for the Mammoth was third-year Logan Cooley, who was playing for the first time since Dec. 5. Entering Wednesday&#8217;s matchup, the 21-year-old had posted 14 goals and 23 points in 29 games this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Colorado Avalanche were without a key player as the top team in the NHL returned from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-500744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500744","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=500744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}