{"id":572226,"date":"2026-03-31T05:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/572226\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T05:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:03:08","slug":"avalanches-cale-makar-exits-vs-flames-with-upper-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/572226\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche&#8217;s Cale Makar exits vs. Flames with upper-body injury"},"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> lost their star defenceman for the third period of Monday&#8217;s game against the Calgary Flames.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Avalanche\/status\/2038809337020457169?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/cale-makar\/052c69b3-91a2-4244-811c-cff9ef96a3ea\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"052c69b3-91a2-4244-811c-cff9ef96a3ea\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Cale Makar<\/a> was ruled out by the team with an upper-body injury after staying in the locker room following the second intermission.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old blue-liner&#8217;s last shift came late in the second period, when he assisted on a Nathan MacKinnon power-play goal.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Jared Bednar told reporters after the game that Makar will be evaluated further on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Makar took a hit from Calgary forward Adam Klapka earlier in the period and was checked on by team training staff before taking two more shifts, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cmasisak22\/status\/2038813882903605418?s=20\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cmasisak22\/status\/2038813882903605418?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">per the Denver Post&#8217;s Corey Masisak.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He had logged 17:15 of ice time prior to leaving, collecting three assists as Colorado built a big lead over the Flames.<\/p>\n<p>The three helpers brought the two-time Norris winner to 74 points on the season in his 73rd game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Colorado Avalanche lost their star defenceman for the third period of Monday&#8217;s game against the Calgary Flames.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-572226","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\/572226","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=572226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}