As Malinski\u2019s role took a leap this season, so did his play. He continued to perform at both ends of the ice, finishing third among Avs blueliners in blocked shots (95) and fourth in that group in takeaways (23).\u00a0Additionally, his +43 plus-minus rating led all NHL\u00a0defensemen\u00a0and was tied for third among all skaters.\u00a0Throughout the season,\u00a0Malinski\u00a0showcased\u00a0his puck-moving ability in addition to his\u00a0anticipatory reading of the play on defense.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Malinski posted five multi-point games in 2025-26, including the first two three-point contests of his career on December 27th and April 1st. He registered 13 different multi-contest point streaks in 2025-26, highlighted by a four-game streak from November 11th-20th.\u00a0Malinski\u00a0also\u00a0reached the 100-game milestone on October 7th\u00a0and commemorated it by scoring in Colorado\u2019s season-opening victory against the Los Angeles Kings.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Entering the 2026-27 season, Malinski is\u00a019 games from 200 and 35 points from 100.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Malinski\u2019s role took a leap this season, so did his play. He continued to perform at both…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-829614","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\/829614","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=829614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}