{"id":527195,"date":"2026-03-28T07:26:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T07:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/527195\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T07:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T07:26:19","slug":"avalanche-closing-in-on-presidents-trophy-as-final-stretch-begins-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/527195\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche Closing In On Presidents\u2019 Trophy As Final Stretch Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Avalanche are closing in on the Presidents\u2019 Trophy, needing just a handful of wins down the stretch to secure the league\u2019s top regular season finish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caas-show-transcript\">View More<\/p>\n<p>Video Transcript<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s it like playing against the best player in the world, Nathan MacKinnon?<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s it like playing against the best player in the world, Nathan MacKinnon?<\/p>\n<p>Arguably one of them.<\/p>\n<p>Arguably one of them.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re one of the best defensemen for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re one of the best defensemen for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s going through your head when you&#8217;re seeing 29 coming at you?<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s going through your head when you&#8217;re seeing 29 coming at you?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, shit.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, shit.<\/p>\n<p>Here we go.<\/p>\n<p>Here we go.<\/p>\n<p>See you, buddy.<\/p>\n<p>See you, buddy.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your time.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your time.<\/p>\n<p>Well, we, we apologize for the language, but we certainly understand the sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>Well, we, we apologize for the language, but we certainly understand the sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>I would say, EJ, per-<\/p>\n<p>I would say, EJ, per-<\/p>\n<p class=\"caas-hide-transcript\">Close<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Colorado Avalanche are closing in on the Presidents\u2019 Trophy, needing just a handful of wins down the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[193,192,144,5277,5,4,3731],"class_list":{"0":"post-527195","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","14":"tag-presidents-trophy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116305617985654367","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527195","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=527195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}