{"id":850403,"date":"2026-09-17T01:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T01:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/850403\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T01:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T01:10:14","slug":"nhl-status-report-makar-likely-to-miss-1st-day-of-camp-for-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/850403\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Status Report: Makar likely to miss 1st day of camp for Avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado Avalanche<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/cale-makar-8480069\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cale Makar<\/a> may not be ready for training camp when the Avalanche have their first on-ice session Thursday. The defenseman is dealing with a lower-body injury. Makar had 79 points (20 goals, 59 assists) and averaged 24:51 of ice time in 75 regular-season games last season, and was a finalist for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/nhl-james-norris-memorial-trophy-winners-complete-list-287778852\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Norris Trophy<\/a>, awarded to the best defenseman in the NHL.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Makar, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/cale-makar-record-contract-a-necessity-for-colorado-avalanche\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">signed an eight-year, $163.2 million contract Aug. 28<\/a>\u00a0which begins next season,missed two games in the Stanley Cup Playoffs last season because of an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s been on the ice. He&#8217;s just on a little bit of a lighter program than probably most of our guys coming into main camp,&#8221; Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said Wednesday. &#8220;So we&#8217;ll see how that sort of sorts out. Whether he&#8217;s ready to go Day 1 of training camp is probably unlikely. Just kind of playing it safe with him and our organization, but at some point in camp he&#8217;ll be full go. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s anything to be worried about at this point. It&#8217;s not related to the injury he had last year in the playoffs. It&#8217;s just something new that popped up here with training.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colorado Avalanche Cale Makar may not be ready for training camp when the Avalanche have their first on-ice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-850403","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\/850403","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=850403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}