{"id":137338,"date":"2023-05-09T11:44:13","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T15:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=137338"},"modified":"2023-05-09T11:44:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T15:44:13","slug":"avalanche-captain-miss-2023-24-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/05\/09\/avalanche-captain-miss-2023-24-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Avalanche Captain to Miss 2023-24 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Colorado Avalanche will be without one of their biggest pieces next season. An injury continues to linger. The team announced today that forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/landega01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-05-09_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gabriel Landeskog<\/a> will undergo a cartilage transplant in his knee in the offseason. He is expected to be out for the entirety of the 2023-24 season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Colorado Avalanche captain Gabriel Landeskog will undergo a cartilage transplant in his right knee on May 10.\u00a0The surgery will be performed by Dr. Brian Cole at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.\u00a0The 30-year-old forward is expected to miss the entire 2023-24 season. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bM466EpL3G\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/bM466EpL3G<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Colorado Avalanche (@Avalanche) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Avalanche\/status\/1655944996770709507?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/landega01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-05-09_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gabriel Landeskog<\/a> to Miss 2023-24 Season<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Gabriel Landeskog injury is a big blow. Landeskog also missed the <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/4410061\/2023\/04\/13\/avalanche-captain-gabriel-landeskog-out-for-playoffs-with-knee-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">entirety of the 2022-23 season<\/a>, undergoing knee surgery in October. At that time, the expectation was that Landeskog would miss twelve weeks. He did continue to have problems throughout the season and did not play in the playoffs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Landeskog has been a cornerstone of the Avalanche\u2019s offence since being drafted by them in 2011. The Avalanche made him captain in 2012 at 19 years old, and he&#8217;s continued to lead the team since then. He has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/gabriel-landeskog-8476455\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">248 career goals and 323 assists<\/a>, for a career points total of 571. In the 2021-22 season, he had 30 goals and 29 assists in 51 games. The Swedish player won the Calder Trophy for best rookie in 2012 and led the Avalanche to a Stanley Cup victory in 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>What\u2019s Next\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Gabriel Landeskog injury raises questions about the future. It\u2019s hard not to wonder if this is the end of Landeskog\u2019s illustrious career. After missing two full seasons, it will be extremely difficult for the 30-year-old forward to return to play. The Avalanche will need to replace Landeskog\u2019s ability to score and his leadership and attitude in the locker room. They\u2019ll look to alternate captains <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mackina01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-05-09_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nathan MacKinnon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/makarca01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-05-09_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cale Makar<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/rantami01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-05-09_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mikko Rantanen<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Landeskog\u2019s health issues are also concerning for a team. In addition, health was an issue all season. Makar and MacKinnon both had their fair share of injuries this season. Forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/coglian01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-05-09_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrew Cogliano<\/a> was also <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/04\/29\/colorado-avalanche-forward-out-indefinitely\/\" target=\"_self\">recently ruled out indefinitely<\/a> after suffering a broken neck in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. With all the injuries, it may mean Colorado looks very different at the start of next season.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo: Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Avalanche will be without one of their biggest pieces next season. An injury continues to linger. The team announced today that forward Gabriel Landeskog will undergo a cartilage transplant in his knee in the offseason. He is expected to be out for the entirety of the 2023-24 season.\u00a0 Colorado Avalanche captain Gabriel Landeskog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4372,"featured_media":137339,"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":[28,4547,6671,4548],"tags":[141,1576],"class_list":["post-137338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avalanche","category-hockey","category-injuries","category-nhl","tag-gabriel-landeskog","tag-injury"],"modified_by":"Tommy Bennett","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137338","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\/4372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}