{"id":407859,"date":"2026-01-14T21:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T21:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/407859\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T21:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T21:04:10","slug":"avalanche-activate-mackenzie-blackwood-reassign-trent-miner-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/407859\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche Activate Mackenzie Blackwood, Reassign Trent Miner \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a team <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Avalanche\/status\/2011505848674308430\" rel=\"nofollow\">announcement<\/a>, the Colorado Avalanche have activated netminder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/blackma01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-14_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mackenzie Blackwood<\/a> from the injured reserve. In a corresponding roster move, the Avalanche have reassigned goaltender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/minertr01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-14_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trent Miner<\/a> to the AHL\u2019s Colorado Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>Blackwood, 29, has been on Colorado\u2019s injured reserve for the last little while. After suffering a lower-body injury during a team practice, Blackwood has missed the Avalanche\u2019s last six contests.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado brought Blackwood into the mix last year in a trade with the San Jose Sharks in an effort to alleviate the team\u2019s goaltending woes. He provided exactly that, winning 22 of 36 starts with the Avalanche with a .913 SV% and 2.33 GAA.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, Blackwood has performed even better this year. Mostly sharing the net with fellow netminder Scott Wedgewood due to injuries, Blackwood has only started 14 of Colorado\u2019s 45 games. During that time, he\u2019s garnered a 13-1-1 record with a .924 SV%, 2.07 GAA, and 10.6 Goals Saved Above Average.<\/p>\n<p>Despite having the league\u2019s best offense by a significant margin, the Avalanche also tops the NHL in GA\/G, largely due to their efficient goaltending. Colorado has produced a .919 SV% across the year \u2014 10 points higher than the next closest.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Miner heads back to Loveland, CO, after appearing in two games for the Avalanche. The 24-year-old won the first game of his career, a 29-save shutout against the Columbus Blue Jackets. His next contest didn\u2019t go well, resulting in an overtime loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs a few days ago.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019ll return to an Eagles club where he\u2019s spent much of the 2025-26 campaign. In 10 games for the team this year, Miner owns a 7-2-0 record with a .907 SV% and 2.40 GAA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to a team announcement, the Colorado Avalanche have activated netminder Mackenzie Blackwood from the injured reserve. In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[193,192,144,5277,5,1123,4,405,3895],"class_list":{"0":"post-407859","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-mackenzie-blackwood","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-transactions","16":"tag-trent-miner"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115895485413745938","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407859","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=407859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}