{"id":605498,"date":"2026-04-15T10:53:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T10:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/605498\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T10:53:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T10:53:24","slug":"avalanches-cale-makar-returns-from-injury-vs-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/605498\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche&#8217;s Cale Makar returns from injury vs. Flames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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> is back in the lineup just in time for the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Makar, already a two-time Norris winner, had another impressive season for the Presidents&#8217; Trophy-winning Avalanche. In 73 games, he has 20 goals and 75 points, the fourth 20-goal season of his career.<\/p>\n<p>The Avalanche close the season on Thursday against the Seattle Kraken and will play the team that finishes in the Western Conference&#8217;s second wild card spot in the first round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cale Makar is back in the lineup just in time for the playoffs. Makar, already a two-time Norris&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-605498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605498","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=605498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}