{"id":775779,"date":"2026-07-21T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/775779\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T12:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:00:27","slug":"logan-oconnors-late-season-return-provided-boost-to-avalanches-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/775779\/","title":{"rendered":"Logan O\u2019Connor&#8217;s Late-Season Return Provided Boost to Avalanche&#8217;s Lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a long road to recovery\u00a0from offseason surgery, Avalanche forward Logan O\u2019Connor\u00a0returned to the lineup on March 24th\u00a0and made an immediate impact\u00a0for\u00a0Colorado.\u00a0From the time he returned through the end of the regular season, O\u2019Connor ranked fifth among Avs forwards in shorthanded time on ice per game (1:23), playing a key role for the NHL\u2019s best penalty kill\u00a0(94.4%)\u00a0during that span.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Additionally,\u00a0Avs posted a co-NHL-fewest 2.15 goals against per game in the 13 regular-season games O\u2019Connor played in, while the winger\u00a0was on the ice for just three goals against over 148:47 of regular-season time on ice.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Connor\u00a0also added a pair of assists in the regular season, including one in his first game back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a long road to recovery\u00a0from offseason surgery, Avalanche forward Logan O\u2019Connor\u00a0returned to the lineup on March 24th\u00a0and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-775779","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\/775779","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=775779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}