{"id":386947,"date":"2026-01-02T18:07:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T18:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/386947\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T18:07:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T18:07:20","slug":"morning-flurries-mackinnon-earns-second-star-of-december-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/386947\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Flurries: MacKinnon earns second star of December honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After being named the NHL\u2019s first star of November, Nathan MacKinnon followed it up with second star of December honors. Sandwiched between two other Team Canada centers, MacKinnon finished the month with 26 points in 14 games including 14 goals. Can the Colorado Avalanche superstar surpass the franchise record 57 goals this season? He currently sits at 34 goals scored with 43 games still to go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Canada was the first nation to reveal their upcoming 2026 Olympic roster, which is always a little bit controversial. Here is a cute video featuring children announcing the squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Speaking of controversy, many pundits expected at least one of the Avalanche goaltending duo of Scott Wedgewood and Mackenzie Blackwood to feature on Team Canada but the decision makers went with familiar options with a lot of international experience. Both netminders took it in stride with bigger goals to look forward to in the coming year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After being named the NHL\u2019s first star of November, Nathan MacKinnon followed it up with second star of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[193,192,144,5277,5,2011,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-386947","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-morning-flurries","14":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115826841766419335","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386947","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=386947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}