{"id":218166,"date":"2025-10-12T02:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T02:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/218166\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T02:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T02:53:12","slug":"samuel-girard-out-week-to-week-for-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/218166\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Girard Out Week-to-Week for Avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Avalanche\u2019s blueline will be without one of its regulars on Saturday, as defenseman Samuel Girard is expected to miss time with an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>Girard was not available for the majority of training camp and preseason before playing in the exhibition finale. He dressed in each of the first two regular-season games but suffered an injury somewhere along the way on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Following the home opener, Girard was seen near the X-ray room just as Jared Bednar was starting his post-game press conference.<\/p>\n<p>The Avs have depth on the back end this season, but their biggest issue is the lack of true left-shot defensemen. They played the first two games with four righties, one of whom, Sam Malinski, was playing on the left.<\/p>\n<p>Now, without Girard, who was on the second pair, they\u2019ll likely turn to recent waiver claim Ilya Solovyov, but it\u2019s unlikely that he\u2019ll replace the minutes that Girard was playing.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s more likely we\u2019ll see Josh Manson on the left with Brent Burns to allow Malinski and Solovyov to round out the third pair.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado hosts the Dallas Stars Saturday at Ball Arena.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/paypalme\/colhockeynow\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/CHNS-Tip-Jar.png\" alt=\"Contribute to CHN's travel and support local journalism!\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Avalanche\u2019s blueline will be without one of its regulars on Saturday, as defenseman Samuel Girard is expected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[1222,1223,831,115314,385,12705,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-218166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-avalanche","9":"tag-colorado-avalanche","10":"tag-featured","11":"tag-ilya-solovyov","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-samuel-girard","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}