{"id":220209,"date":"2025-10-12T23:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T23:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/220209\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T23:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T23:19:12","slug":"avalanche-recall-defenseman-jack-ahcan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/220209\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche Recall Defenseman Jack Ahcan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Avalanche are taking seven defensemen with them on their two-game road trip. With Samuel Girard announced out week-to-week, the Avs called up Jack Ahcan ahead of Monday\u2019s early puck drop against the Buffalo Sabres.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradohockeynow.com\/2025\/10\/12\/10-observations-rantanen-puts-damper-on-a-promising-avalanche-performance\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">10 Observations: Rantanen Puts Damper On a Promising Avalanche Performance (+)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ahcan, 28, was one of the final cuts from the team as the preseason started to wind down. He worked his way up the depth chart and past Keaton Middleton, quickly becoming a call-up favorite for head coach Jared Bednar.<\/p>\n<p>In Saturday\u2019s 5-4 shootout loss to Dallas, Colorado used defenseman Ilya Solovyov on the third pair alongside Sam Malinski.<\/p>\n<p>Solovyov was claimed off waivers from the Calgary Flames to be the team\u2019s No. 7 defenseman. He played just under 10 minutes in his Avs debut but looked fine given he was inserted into the lineup after just one full-team practice.<\/p>\n<p>Ahcan gives the team another option, and an extra body if injury arises. Colorado plays Buffalo at 10:30 am MT on Monday before traveling to Columbus to play the Blue Jackets on Thursday.<\/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 are taking seven defensemen with them on their two-game road trip. With Samuel Girard announced out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[1222,1223,831,115314,124090,385,12705,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-220209","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-jack-ahcan","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-samuel-girard","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220209","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=220209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}