{"id":472278,"date":"2026-02-26T03:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T03:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/472278\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T03:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T03:39:13","slug":"why-brock-nelson-is-wearing-a-face-mask-for-avalanche-after-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/472278\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Brock Nelson is wearing a face mask for Avalanche after Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock Nelson returned from the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan with a couple new accessories.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nhl\/colorado-avalanche\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a> center brought home a gold medal. He also brought home a face mask.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, he&#8217;s back on the ice for the Avalanche rocking a bubble shield face mask, which he wore in the last couple United States games at the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson was crucial for Team USA throughout, and he certainly earned his gold medal.<\/p>\n<p>The mask? That&#8217;s not exactly something you earn, but Nelson will likely wear it with pride since he wore it en route to gold.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nhl\/pittsburgh-penguins\/news\/penguins-sidney-crosby-breaks-silence-injury-olympics-return-timeline-gold-medal-game\/8bb2b151822c85cbf72ad0ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sidney Crosby breaks silence on injury, Olympics and rest of Penguins&#8217; season<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why is Brock Nelson wearing a face mask?<\/p>\n<p>Nelson has the extra covering on his face as a layer of proection.<\/p>\n<p>He took a big hit to his face in Team USA&#8217;s final preliminary round game against Germany, which was played a week before the gold medal game.<\/p>\n<p>The mask helps prevent any further damage to Nelson&#8217;s face.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson brought a cool trend to the Olympics, too. He is a third-generation Olympian. His grandfather won a hockey gold medal in 1960. His uncle won a gold medal in 1980.<\/p>\n<p>And now Nelson, face mask and all, is golden, too.<\/p>\n<p>More NHL news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brock Nelson returned from the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan with a couple new accessories. The Colorado Avalanche&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[193,192,144,5277,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-472278","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-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116134855810445476","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472278","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=472278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}