{"id":593218,"date":"2026-04-09T20:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T20:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/593218\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T20:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T20:22:08","slug":"avalanche-say-nazem-kadri-will-miss-a-few-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/593218\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche say Nazem Kadri will miss a few games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER \u2014 Avalanche\u00a0forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/nazem-kadri\/4313ca5c-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"4313ca5c-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nazem Kadri<\/a>\u00a0will miss \u201csome games\u201d because of a finger injury, Colorado coach Jared Bednar said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Bednar added the Avalanche hope to work him back into the lineup before\u00a0the playoffs, maybe as soon as next week. The Avalanche have five games remaining, including Thursday night against the Calgary Flames.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado has already\u00a0clinched the Central Division\u00a0and the top seed in the Western Conference. A win over Calgary wraps up the Presidents&#8217; Trophy, which goes to the squad with the best NHL record.<\/p>\n<p>Kadri was hurt in\u00a0a 3-1 win over the Blues\u00a0in St. Louis on Tuesday. He has four goals and five assists in 16 games since being acquired by Colorado as part of a trade deadline deal with the Flames on March 6.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old Kadri helped Colorado to a Stanley Cup title in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Kadri, the Avalanche are without defenceman Cale Makar because of\u00a0an upper-body injury. Makar skated with the team in a red, non-contact sweater Thursday. Makar is set to miss his fifth straight game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER \u2014 Avalanche\u00a0forward Nazem Kadri\u00a0will miss \u201csome games\u201d because of a finger injury, Colorado coach Jared Bednar said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-593218","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\/593218","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=593218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}