{"id":428103,"date":"2026-01-25T23:53:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T23:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/428103\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T23:53:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T23:53:26","slug":"its-going-to-be-tight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/428103\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s going to be tight\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/colorado-avalanche\/21\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/colorado-avalanche\/21\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a> head coach Jared Bednar said \u201cit\u2019s going to be tight\u201d for captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/gabriel-landeskog\/8476455\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/gabriel-landeskog\/8476455\" target=\"_blank\">Gabriel Landeskog<\/a> to be ready to represent Sweden at Milano Cortina 2026, according to TSN Hockey Insider Pierre LeBrun. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Landeskog, who has been out since Jan. 6 with an upper-body injury, was given a rough timeline of missing \u201csome weeks\u201d by Bednar at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The NHL takes its Olympic break from Feb. 6 to 24 with the men\u2019s hockey tournament kicking off on Feb. 11. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cGetting better,\u201d Bednar said regarding Landeskog. \u201cHe\u2019s doing more and more in the gym, he\u2019s hitting the ice now, he\u2019s still limited a little bit, he\u2019s sore. Time will tell, but the goal would be for him to be able to go play for the Olympics. And he\u2019s still targeting that. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHe really wants to play and I really want him to go play. There\u2019s always a little bit of nervousness when you got players going that maybe aren\u2019t fully healthy, but he\u2019ll do the right thing and I\u2019m really hoping that we can watch him in the Olympic tournament because it\u2019s something that he really wants to do, play for his country again, he\u2019s earned that, with his season. Hopefully everything works out, but it\u2019s going to be tight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Asked Avs HC Jared Bednar for an update on Gabriel Landeskog two weeks away from Milan:<br \/>&#8220;Getting better. He\u2019s doing more and more in the gym, he\u2019s hitting the ice now, he\u2019s still limited a little bit, he\u2019s sore. Time will tell, but the goal would be for him to be able to go play\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PierreVLeBrun\/status\/2015541252989526404?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Landeskog was one of the first six players Team Sweden named to its Olympic roster in June. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He previously represented his country at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, earning a silver medal. He has also won two gold medals at the World Championship. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After captaining the Avalanche to a Stanley Cup title in 2022, Landeskog missed three full NHL seasons before returning in last season\u2019s playoffs, where he scored one goal with three assists in five games before Colorado was eliminated in seven games by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/dallas-stars\/25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/dallas-stars\/25\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Stars<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In 41 games this season, the 33-year-old has seven goals and 22 points. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colorado Avalanche head coach Jared Bednar said \u201cit\u2019s going to be tight\u201d for captain Gabriel Landeskog to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4759,33752,50012,5,4,42978],"class_list":{"0":"post-428103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-colorado-avalanche-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-21","10":"tag-gabriel-landeskog-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8476455","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-olympics-sports-olympics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115958435344480382","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428103","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=428103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}