{"id":386009,"date":"2026-01-02T04:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/386009\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T04:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:53:10","slug":"evening-notes-horvat-miller-avalanche-anderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/386009\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening Notes: Horvat, Miller, Avalanche, Anderson"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Islanders are dealing with some additional concerns from their difficult loss to the Utah Mammoth earlier today. According to Stefen Rosner of The Hockey News<\/a>, center Bo Horvat<\/a> was apparently doubled over in pain on the bench and left the game in the third period.<\/p>\n

The Islanders didn\u2019t offer any updates to Horvat\u2019s status after the game. Still, Andrew Gross of Newsday relayed<\/a> a note from head coach Patrick Roy<\/a> that Horvat is expected to meet with the team\u2019s medical staff tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Any more missed time by Horvat would obviously hurt New York\u2019s competitive chances leading up to the Olympic Break in February. Tonight was Horvat\u2019s third game back since returning from a separate injury, when he missed five games in mid-December. The team went 2-2-1 in his absence.<\/p>\n

Other evening updates:<\/p>\n

After sharing<\/a> that Matthew Tkachuk<\/a> wouldn\u2019t be available for the Winter Classic tomorrow, the visiting team will also be without one of their better forwards. According to Mollie Walker of the New York Post<\/a>, the New York Rangers captain J.T. Miller<\/a> won\u2019t be able to return from his upper-body injury for tomorrow\u2019s game. Miller, who hasn\u2019t played since December 20th, was given a week-to-week recovery timeline, which would have made a potential return tomorrow relatively early.
\nThe Colorado Avalanche may be without a few depth forwards for their upcoming road trip through the Southeastern United States. Earlier today, Corey Misiak of the Denver Post passed<\/a> along an update from head coach Jared Bednar<\/a>, who shared that Gavin Brindley<\/a> and Joel Kiviranta<\/a> are each dealing with lower-body injuries. Neither injury is considered long-term, though Bednar admitted that the team may need to recall an extra forward for the three-game trip.
\nIn tonight\u2019s chaotic matchup between the Carolina Hurricanes and Montreal Canadiens, the latter is dealing with some injury concerns up front. The Canadiens announced<\/a> that Josh Anderson had exited the game due to injury. The veteran winger scored one goal on his only shot of the game, skating in 9:36 of the action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Islanders are dealing with some additional concerns from their difficult loss to the Utah Mammoth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[193,3669,192,144,5277,18209,5,402,2685,1036,783,21,159,35,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-386009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-avalanche","8":"tag-avalanche","9":"tag-bo-horvat","10":"tag-colorado","11":"tag-colorado-avalanche","12":"tag-coloradoavalanche","13":"tag-gavin-brindley","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-injury","16":"tag-j-t-miller","17":"tag-joel-kiviranta","18":"tag-josh-anderson","19":"tag-montreal-canadiens","20":"tag-new-york-islanders","21":"tag-new-york-rangers","22":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115823719498398394","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386009","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=386009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}