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Colorado Avalanche star Nathan MacKinnon will miss 4 weeks as a result of an upper-body damage, in keeping with an announcement from the workforce. MacKinnon suffered the damage throughout the first interval of Monday’s 5-3 loss to the Philadelphia Flyers.
Following Monday’s contest, Avalanche head coach Jared Bednar said that he had “no concept” how the damage occurred. MacKinnon was evaluated for the damage throughout the second intermission and wasn’t capable of return to the sport.
MacKinnon is simply the most recent in a rash of accidents which have hit the Avalanche dressing room. The workforce is already lacking forwards Gabriel Landeskog, Valeri Nichushkin, and Artturi Lehkonen in addition to defensemen Josh Manson and Bowen Byram. Landeskog is predicted to be out till someday subsequent month as he recovers from arthroscopic knee surgical procedure that he underwent in October.
“It’s going to be a problem,” Bednar mentioned on Monday after MacKinnon suffered the damage. “It’s been a problem for us. It appears to be getting worse at this level.”
This comes simply two months after MacKinnon signed an eight-year, $100.8 million contract extension with Colorado. The deal carries a mean annual worth of $12.6 million and makes him the highest-paid participant within the NHL.
In 23 video games this season, MacKinnon at the moment leads the Avalanche in factors (34) and assists (26) whereas rating second on the workforce in targets with eight. MacKinnon’s 26 assists are at the moment tied with the Tampa Bay Lightning’s Nikita Kucherov and the Edmonton Oilers’ Connor McDavid for the league lead.
MacKinnon has additionally registered a minimum of 88 assists in 4 of his final 5 season, together with a career-high 99-point marketing campaign throughout the 2018-19 season.
