{"id":421122,"date":"2026-01-22T05:10:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T05:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/421122\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T05:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T05:10:06","slug":"avalanches-valeri-nichushkin-misses-game-after-pregame-car-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/421122\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche&#8217;s Valeri Nichushkin misses game after pregame car accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valeri Nichushkin missed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2026\/01\/19\/avalanche-capitals-game-mackinnon-olofsson-wedgewood\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Avalanche\u2019s 5-2 win<\/a> Monday afternoon after being involved in a car accident on his way to Ball Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Avs coach Jared Bednar said it was a multi-car accident and Nichushkin sustained minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe came to the rink and got checked out. Everything seems to be OK, just not good enough to play today,\u201d Bednar said. \u201cJust a little bit of a precautionary day and we\u2019ll see what tomorrow brings for him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a fender bender, but serious enough to keep him out of the lineup tonight. \u2026 The roads were icy when the guys were coming in this morning and slick and there was a multiple-vehicle accident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nichushkin has 11 goals and 27 points in 38 games for the Avs this season. Colorado recalled Alex Barre-Boulet to replace him from the Colorado Eagles in the lineup. It was a tight window, but Barre-Boulet was able to get to Ball Arena from Loveland in time for warmups.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we let him know about 50 minutes before the guys were supposed to be here, which is two hours before the game,\u201d Bednar said. \u201cSo it was under three hours before the game, and he got here just in time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Avs are scheduled to practice Tuesday at Family Sports Center and play again Wednesday night at home against the Anaheim Ducks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.denverpost.com\/dp\/preference\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Want more Avalanche news? Sign up for the Avalanche Insider to get all our NHL analysis.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Valeri Nichushkin missed the Colorado Avalanche\u2019s 5-2 win Monday afternoon after being involved in a car accident on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[193,1466,192,144,3888,5277,5,1117,1180,1262,4,43,3922],"class_list":{"0":"post-421122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-avalanche","8":"tag-avalanche","9":"tag-ball-arena","10":"tag-colorado","11":"tag-colorado-avalanche","12":"tag-colorado-eagles","13":"tag-coloradoavalanche","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-jared-bednar","16":"tag-latest-headlines","17":"tag-more-avalanche-news","18":"tag-nhl","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-valeri-nichushkin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115937032638789139","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421122","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=421122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}