{"id":593627,"date":"2026-04-19T12:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T12:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/593627\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T12:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T12:45:10","slug":"avalanche-finally-have-full-team-entering-western-1st-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/593627\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche finally have ‘full team’ entering Western 1st Round"},"content":{"rendered":"

And it gives Bednar a chance to re-examine some lines they didn\u2019t get enough opportunity to see in the regular season due to injuries. On Saturday, Nazem Kadri<\/a>, who is expected to play Sunday after missing five games with a finger injury, was center on the third line with left wing\u00a0Gabriel Landeskog<\/a> and right wing Nicolas Roy<\/a>.\u00a0Kadri and Landeskog played some together before Landeskog sustained a lower-body injury against the Dallas Stars on March 6, then played briefly together again earlier this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Landeskog, Kadri and Roy have played just 4:40 together, against the St. Louis Blues on April 7, because Kadri was injured in that game.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, with ‘Naz’ missing the last few games, it\u2019s one thing we\u2019re kind of missing out on is what is the chemistry of that line that we like? But I think ‘Nic’ has some attributes that I really like when it comes to playing with a guy like ‘Naz.’ He doesn\u2019t like to throw the puck away, he\u2019s able to hang onto it, find plays in traffic, play a little give-and-go game,\u201d Bednar said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201c’Landy’ was with him today too. They\u2019re both able to go to the net, and get to the net, and win puck battles along the walls, and can then maybe free ‘Naz’ up to find some space and be a little bit more creative. Some of the things I look at when I\u2019m putting together a line is that guys\u2019 skill sets can complement one another.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And it gives Bednar a chance to re-examine some lines they didn\u2019t get enough opportunity to see in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-593627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593627","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=593627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}