{"id":132907,"date":"2022-10-19T16:02:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T20:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=132907"},"modified":"2022-10-19T16:02:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T20:02:57","slug":"colorado-avalanche-forward-out-long-term-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/10\/19\/colorado-avalanche-forward-out-long-term-with-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Avalanche Forward Out Long Term With Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Playing the tough sport that we love the most comes at a price. It is tough and physically demanding. Between delivering hits and sacrificing the body to block shots, it all comes at a price. One star is already down with <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/10\/19\/florida-panthers-defenceman-long-term-injury\/\" target=\"_self\">injury<\/a> and that is <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/panthers\/\" target=\"_self\">Florida Panthers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/e\/ekblaaa01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aaron Ekblad<\/a>. Another huge blow landed on another team&#8217;s doorstep. Colorado Avalanche forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/landega01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gabriel Landeskog<\/a> is out long-term.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Gabriel Landeskog is out 12 weeks for the Avalanche following knee surgery.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/31GSstU14A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/31GSstU14A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NHL.com (@NHLdotcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLdotcom\/status\/1582778687396581376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Gabriel Landeskog Out The Next Three Months<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Colorado Avalanche Gabriel Landeskog is out for the next 12 weeks. Already pegged to miss the season, he will now miss up to three months. Landeskog underwent knee surgery and had a long recovery time ahead.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Colorado Suffers The Blow<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This situation differs from the Ekblad situation. Landeskog is a leader, and his style of play will be missed. He had one of his strongest seasons last year with 30 goal and 29 assists in only 51 games played. Landeskog was a key piece in winning the Stanley Cup as well. However, Colorado has the depth up front and the production to stay afloat while Landeskog is on the shelf. Led by superstar centre Nathan Mackinnon, the offensive attack will be fine. The complimentary pieces in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/n\/nichuva01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Valeri Nichushkin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/rantami01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mikko Rantanen<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lehkoar01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Artturi Lehkonen<\/a> help spear head the attack. Let\u2019s also not forget offensive wizard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/makarca01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cale Makar<\/a> is on the back end. Colorado <a href=\"https:\/\/moneypuck.com\/teams.htm\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ranks fourth<\/a> in goals scored (14), and ranks 12th in Corsi For Percentage (52.48). <\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Avs Going Forward <\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Colorado Avalanche forward Gabriel Landeskog will be done for three months.\u00a0<\/span>He is a large part of their success, but the team will be okay going forward. Landeskog could be looking at a return in the middle of January. Until then, they will look to maintain a top-three spot in the Central Division. It seems to be competitive as the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/stars\/\" target=\"_self\">Dallas Stars<\/a> are a different-looking team aiming to dethrone the champs.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Colorado Avalanche captain Gabriel Landeskog is expected to miss 12 weeks after undergoing knee surgery, head coach Jared Bednar announced Wednesday: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y833WE5iw6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/y833WE5iw6<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TSNHockey?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#TSNHockey<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4EfDtKU6no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/4EfDtKU6no<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TSN Hockey (@TSNHockey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSNHockey\/status\/1582768935128006659?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playing the tough sport that we love the most comes at a price. It is tough and physically demanding. Between delivering hits and sacrificing the body to block shots, it all comes at a price. One star is already down with injury and that is Florida Panthers Aaron Ekblad. Another huge blow landed on another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4194,"featured_media":132911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,4547,6671,34,4548],"tags":[346,5781,141,955],"class_list":["post-132907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avalanche","category-hockey","category-injuries","category-news","category-nhl","tag-aaron-ekblad","tag-colorado-avalanche-news","tag-gabriel-landeskog","tag-nhl-news"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}