{"id":240444,"date":"2025-10-12T21:23:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T21:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/240444\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T21:23:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T21:23:45","slug":"mackinnon-calls-out-avalanche-fans-over-power-play-ignorance-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/240444\/","title":{"rendered":"MacKinnon Calls Out Avalanche Fans Over Power Play Ignorance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado Avalanche star <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mackina01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=nhltradetalk.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-10-12_hr\">Nathan MacKinnon<\/a> didn\u2019t hold back after Saturday\u2019s 5-4 shootout loss to the Dallas Stars, taking aim at his own fanbase for booing the team during the power play. Noting, \u201cI know we were getting booed, I guess they don\u2019t really know what a good power play looks like,\u201d MacKinnon\u2019s reaction has stirred up a few responses.<\/p>\n<p>MacKinnon liked his team\u2019s effort on Saturday and felt they deserved the win. When asked about the power play and his thoughts on how it looked, he responded, \u201cI thought it was really good tonight, really good, a lot of great chances,\u201d he said. \u201cI know we were getting booed, I guess they don\u2019t really know what a good power play looks like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Avs did score on the man advantage, so MacKinnon used it as an opportunity to take another sarcastic shot at fans who aren\u2019t giving the team time to get their power play sorted out. \u201cWe had a ton of chances and nothing was going in, and we finally got one, so I guess they gotta boo us more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Nathan-MacKinnon-loss-Avalanche.jpg\" alt=\"Nathan MacKinnon loss Avalanche\" class=\"wp-image-93427\"  \/>Nathan MacKinnon calls out Avalanche fans over the team\u2019s power play boos<\/p>\n<p>Fans React to MacKinnon\u2019s Taking Aim at Them<\/p>\n<p>The remarks have already generated discussion online, some fans defending their right to boo and others saying that they didn\u2019t think the boos were directed at the power play, but at former Avalanche players who were playing against the team on Saturday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/rantami01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=nhltradetalk.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-10-12_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mikko Rantanen<\/a> was among them, and he was heavily booed during his shootout winner. While MacKinnon\u2019s comments were likely meant to be more sarcastic that a direct shot at the team\u2019s fans, he\u2019s got a dry personality and it\u2019s hard to know when he\u2019s being serious or joking around. After a frustrating loss, it could have been a bit of both.<\/p>\n<p>Next: <a href=\"https:\/\/nhltradetalk.com\/jack-roslovic-oilers-contract-comes-with-unusual-guarantee\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Roslovic\u2019s Oilers Deal Comes With an Unusual Guarantee<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/NHLTradeTalkweblogo4.png\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colorado Avalanche star Nathan MacKinnon didn\u2019t hold back after Saturday\u2019s 5-4 shootout loss to the Dallas Stars, taking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[193,192,144,5277,5,517,4,2175],"class_list":{"0":"post-240444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-avalanche","8":"tag-avalanche","9":"tag-colorado","10":"tag-colorado-avalanche","11":"tag-coloradoavalanche","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nathan-mackinnon","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-top-story"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115363302919136004","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}