{"id":389486,"date":"2026-01-04T02:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/389486\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T02:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:56:09","slug":"west-injury-notes-avalanche-klingberg-mukhamadullin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/389486\/","title":{"rendered":"West Injury Notes: Avalanche, Klingberg, Mukhamadullin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much like he did a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prohockeyrumors.com\/2026\/01\/evening-notes-horvat-miller-avalanche-anderson.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">few days ago<\/a> ahead of their road trip through the southeast, Colorado Avalanche head coach <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/staff\/323\/jared-bednar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jared Bednar<\/a> provided a few more injury updates this afternoon. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cmasisak22\/status\/2007567832507203953\" rel=\"nofollow\">Provided by Corey Misiak of The Denver Post<\/a>, Bednar said that the team is expecting netminder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/blackma01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-03_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mackenzie Blackwood<\/a> and forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kivirjo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-03_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Joel Kiviranta<\/a> to return after the trip.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, on the positive side of the update, Bedar indicated that although he won\u2019t play tonight, forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/brindga01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-03_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gavin Brindley<\/a> may return as early as tomorrow against the Florida Panthers. Both Kiviranta and Brindley are dealing with lower-body injuries, though neither is expected to miss too much time.<\/p>\n<p>The news is also good regarding Blackwood. The Avalanche did not initially provide a timeline for his recovery, so a few days missed should not significantly impact their chances on the three-game road trip. Bednar mentioned to Misiak that Blackwood\u2019s injury was discovered at the team\u2019s practice on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Other injury notes from the Western Conference:<\/p>\n<p>The San Jose Sharks were missing blueliner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/klingjo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-03_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">John Klingberg<\/a> in their blowout loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning today. Before the game, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Sheng_Peng\/status\/2007521132631761136\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sheng Peng of San Jose Hockey Now shared<\/a> that Klingberg is dealing with a lower-body issue. The Sharks could have used Klingberg\u2019s offensive capabilities today, as he\u2019s scored nine goals and 16 points in his first 31 games with the club.<br \/>\nOutside of Klingberg, the Sharks are dealing with another injured defenseman from today\u2019s game. Shortly before the start of the third period, San Jose <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SanJoseSharksPR\/status\/2007593072268587339\" rel=\"nofollow\">shared<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mukhash01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-03_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Shakir Mukhamadullin<\/a> has exited the game due to injury, without specifying if it was a lower or upper-body issue. The 23-year-old defenseman skated in 5:33 of today\u2019s contest, earning a -3 rating with one blocked shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Much like he did a few days ago ahead of their road trip through the southeast, Colorado Avalanche&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[144,18209,5,402,1036,691,1123,4,168,5719],"class_list":{"0":"post-389486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-colorado-avalanche","9":"tag-gavin-brindley","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-injury","12":"tag-joel-kiviranta","13":"tag-john-klingberg","14":"tag-mackenzie-blackwood","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-san-jose-sharks","17":"tag-shakir-mukhamadullin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389486","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=389486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}