{"id":626600,"date":"2026-04-24T23:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T23:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/626600\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T23:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T23:48:08","slug":"manson-zuccarello-trenin-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/626600\/","title":{"rendered":"Manson, Zuccarello, Trenin \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite taking a commanding 3-0 series lead against the Los Angeles Kings, the Colorado Avalanche are already dealing with injury concerns. According to Evan Rawal of The Denver Gazette<\/a>, top-four defenseman Josh Manson<\/a> is being evaluated for an upper-body injury and could miss Game 4.<\/p>\n

Manson suffered the injury scare early in Game 3, being on the receiving end of a hit from Kings defenseman Joel Edmundson<\/a>. Manson attempted to return to the game, though he was largely sheltered due to his discomfort. He finished the contest with one assist in 4:57 of ice time with one hit and one giveaway.<\/p>\n

Although there is never a good time for injuries, the Avalanche have put themselves in a good position to absorb one. Yes, the team is potentially losing a formidable top-four defenseman. Still, with only one more win needed to advance to Round Two, they can likely sweep Los Angeles, giving Manson a larger gap to rest in between games. Colorado acquired Nick Blankenburg<\/a> at the deadline for exactly this reason, who will likely fill in for Manson if he should be ruled out for Game 4. Blankenburg scored eight goals and 24 points in 61 games split between the Nashville Predators and the Avalanche this season.<\/p>\n

Additional notes from the Central Division:<\/p>\n

According to Mike Morreale of the NHL<\/a>, Minnesota Wild veteran winger Mats Zuccarello<\/a> has been upgraded to a game-time decision for Game 4. Although he\u2019s not the main driver of offense in Minnesota, the Wild didn\u2019t win either of the two games that Zuccarello missed due to his upper-body injury. If he does return, he\u2019ll look to pick up where he left off in Game 1, when he registered three assists in 16:41 of ice time.
\nUnfortunately, it\u2019s not all good news on the injury front for the Wild. In the same report from Morreale, the senior draft writer indicated that Yakov Trenin<\/a> has been ruled out for Game 4. Throughout the entire regular season, Trenin played all 82 games and has not missed back-to-back games since last year. Still, he was fairly quiet during the first two games of the series, going scoreless in 16:38 of ice time, but he did deliver 16 hits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite taking a commanding 3-0 series lead against the Los Angeles Kings, the Colorado Avalanche are already dealing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,758,5718,234890,86634,761,448,82,234891],"class_list":["post-626600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-injury","tag-josh-manson","tag-mats-zuccarello","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-yakov-trenin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626600","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=626600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}