{"id":3807,"date":"2016-11-30T18:37:26","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T23:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=3807"},"modified":"2016-11-30T18:37:26","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T23:37:26","slug":"colorado-avalanche-place-gabe-landeskog-ir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2016\/11\/30\/colorado-avalanche-place-gabe-landeskog-ir\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabriel Landeskog Placed on IR By Colorado Avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Colorado Avalanche<\/strong> have announced that they have placed forward <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/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><\/strong> on the injured reserve list. \u00a0The 24-year old winger missed his sixth straight game yesterday with what has only been described as a &#8220;lower-body injury&#8221; \u00a0Landeskog was injured in the Avs&#8217; game against the <strong>Los Angeles Kings<\/strong> on November 15th. \u00a0The injury at the time did not seem major, considering Landeskog remained in the game and even scored a late game goal into an empty net. \u00a0However, it would later be revealed that the injury was worse than perceived and that he would indeed miss time.<\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/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> Placed on IR By Colorado Avalanche<\/h1>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bednar noted the team will probably put Landeskog (lower body) on IR.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Colorado Avalanche (@Avalanche) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Avalanche\/status\/804044321527894016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 30, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Last week, Landeskog began skating in a non-contact jersey both with the team and on his own, but recently, he has held back, perhaps indicating the injury is still lingering. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/avalanche\/news\/gabriel-landeskog-placed-on-injured-reserve\/c-284235194\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cI don\u2019t want to say he\u2019s not day to day still,\u201d head coach <strong>Jared Bednar<\/strong> said. \u201cI\u2019m hoping he\u2019s more day to day than week to week. But now we have the ability to put him on IR retroactive and can come off at any time . . . He\u2019s not going to play tomorrow. That\u2019s all I know right now.\u201d<\/a> (Via the Colorado Avalanche team website).<\/p>\n<p>As for Landeskog&#8217;s replacement, the Avalanche are exploring their options. \u00a0The filler has yet to be named but it is most likely to be either one of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/greeraj01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A.J. Greer<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bourqga01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gabriel Bourque<\/a><\/strong>, and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/grimaro01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rocco Grimaldi<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0All of these players spend their playing time with Colorado&#8217;s <strong>American Hockey League<\/strong> affiliate, the <strong>San Antonio Rampage<\/strong>. \u00a0Grimaldi leads the Rampage with six goals and nine assists in 19 games played. \u00a0Greer has five goals and nine assists in 16 games and Bourque has two goals and three assists in 11 games played.<\/p>\n<p>Landeskog has four goals and four assists in 15 games played this season for the Colorado Avalanche.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/623549478\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.498316% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/623549478?et=ScuK8VkbQK5pQoHmOsxP4g&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=4q-dzPbOEOyitR_sA_UtnmeaEnUpMkGHoyEzld_ekQ0=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Avalanche have announced that they have placed forward Gabriel Landeskog on the injured reserve list. \u00a0The 24-year old winger missed his sixth straight game yesterday with what has only been described as a &#8220;lower-body injury&#8221; \u00a0Landeskog was injured in the Avs&#8217; game against the Los Angeles Kings on November 15th. \u00a0The injury at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1187,"featured_media":3823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"1480523220","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"Colorado Avalanche place winger Gabriel Landeskog on injured reserve","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,34],"tags":[36,141,37,38,947],"class_list":["post-3807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avalanche","category-news","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-gabriel-landeskog","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-western-conference"],"modified_by":"Nic Hendrickson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807","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\/1187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}