{"id":491049,"date":"2026-02-26T06:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T06:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/491049\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T06:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T06:21:09","slug":"avalanche-star-nathan-mackinnon-misses-first-game-after-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/491049\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche star Nathan MacKinnon misses first game after Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Colorado Avalanche star Nathan MacKinnon will not play for the club in its first game back from the 2026 Winter Olympics break.<\/p>\n<p>He is not in the lineup against the Utah Mammoth because of \u201cmaintenance,\u201d according to a team spokesman. This is the first game MacKinnon has missed this season for the Avs.<\/p>\n<p>MacKinnon played in all six games for Canada at the Olympics in Milan, earning a silver medal after the United States won the final, 2-1, in overtime in an instant classic. He finished the tournament with four goals and seven points.<\/p>\n<p>The 2024 league MVP is a top contender for the Hart Trophy and Ted Lindsay Award again this season. MacKinnon leads the NHL with 40 goals and is second to Edmonton\u2019s Connor McDavid with 93 points.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.denverpost.com\/dp\/preference\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Want more Avalanche news? Sign up for the Avalanche Insider to get all our NHL analysis.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Colorado Avalanche star Nathan MacKinnon will not play for the club in its first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[113110,1222,1223,15802,2558,65879,39780,385,1082,99],"class_list":["post-491049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-2026-winter-olympics","tag-avalanche","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-connor-mcdavid","tag-latest-headlines","tag-more-avalanche-news","tag-nathan-mackinnon","tag-nhl","tag-olympics","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491049","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=491049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}