{"id":432853,"date":"2026-01-28T17:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/432853\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T17:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:32:11","slug":"jared-bednar-hints-at-gabriel-landeskogs-olympic-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/432853\/","title":{"rendered":"Jared Bednar hints at Gabriel Landeskog’s Olympic hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Colorado Avalanche<\/a> saw Gabriel Landeskog<\/a> go down with an injury after running into the goal-pipe on January 4. Landeskog recently returned to the ice<\/a>, in the hopes that the captain could return to the team soon. Now, head coach Jared Bednar has given an update on the forward<\/a> and hinted at his Olympic participation.<\/p>\n

\u201cDefinitely making improvements,\u201d the Avs coach Jared Bednar said Tuesday about Landeskog, according to The Athletic NHL insider Pierre LeBrun.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s been on the ice for a few days now and getting better. Doing more in the gym. And that\u2019s a big sign for me. Like when you can stay out (in practice) and do the flow, non-contact drills, and be moving around and not look too uncomfortable \u2026 so he\u2019s moving in the right direction. For Gabe, obviously, we\u2019re just really hoping he can get back and be part of the Olympics, and it looks like he\u2019s trending in that direction,\u201d Bednar continued.<\/p>\n

Landeskog was having a solid season before going down with an injury. He has found the back of the net seven times while adding 15 helpers in his 41 games. The Avs captain is looking to represent Sweden for the first time since the 2017 World Championships, after missing the Four Nations Face-Off due to injury. He did play for Sweden in 2014 at the Olympics in Sochi, helping the team win the silver medal. Bednar had previously hinted that there was a push by the team for Landeskog to play in the Olympics.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s always a little bit of nervousness when you\u2019ve 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,\u201d Bednar said. \u201cHe\u2019s earned that, with his season. Hopefully everything works out, but it\u2019s going to be tight.\u201d<\/p>\n

The men’s hockey tournament kicks off on February 11, two weeks from now. Sweden is hoping to make a run at gold<\/a> in the game, and having Landeskog on the ice would be a major boost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Colorado Avalanche saw Gabriel Landeskog go down with an injury after running into the goal-pipe on January…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5116],"tags":[193,192,144,5277,7,5,4,2602],"class_list":{"0":"post-432853","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-gabriel-landeskog","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-olympics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115973924472499093","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432853","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=432853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}