{"id":472211,"date":"2026-02-26T02:37:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/472211\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T02:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:37:23","slug":"avalanche-star-nathan-mackinnon-misses-first-game-after-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/472211\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche star Nathan MacKinnon misses first game after Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Colorado Avalanche star Nathan MacKinnon will not play for the club in its first game back from the 2026 Winter Olympics break.<\/p>\n<p>He is not in the lineup against the Utah Mammoth because of \u201cmaintenance,\u201d according to a team spokesman. This is the first game MacKinnon has missed this season for the Avs.<\/p>\n<p>MacKinnon played in all six games for Canada at the Olympics in Milan, earning a silver medal after the United States won the final, 2-1, in overtime in an instant classic. He finished the tournament with four goals and seven points.<\/p>\n<p>The 2024 league MVP is a top contender for the Hart Trophy and Ted Lindsay Award again this season. MacKinnon leads the NHL with 40 goals and is second to Edmonton\u2019s Connor McDavid with 93 points.<\/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":"SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Colorado Avalanche star Nathan MacKinnon will not play for the club in its first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[3189,193,192,144,5277,155,5,1180,1262,517,4,2602,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-472211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-avalanche","8":"tag-2026-winter-olympics","9":"tag-avalanche","10":"tag-colorado","11":"tag-colorado-avalanche","12":"tag-coloradoavalanche","13":"tag-connor-mcdavid","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-latest-headlines","16":"tag-more-avalanche-news","17":"tag-nathan-mackinnon","18":"tag-nhl","19":"tag-olympics","20":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116134611875762277","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472211","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=472211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}