{"id":532227,"date":"2026-03-31T03:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/532227\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:53:12","slug":"cale-makar-suffers-upper-body-injury-during-flames-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/532227\/","title":{"rendered":"Cale Makar suffers upper-body injury during Flames clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nhl\/colorado-avalanche\/nazem-kadri-special-message-avalanche-reception-flames-trade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Avalanche took on the Calgary Flames<\/a> in a late-season matchup. This game featured a bit of emotion, <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nhl\/colorado-avalanche\/avalanche-news-colorado-last-second-trade-deadline-deal-nazem-kadri\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">as Nazem Kadri faced his former team for the first time since a trade<\/a> earlier in March. After the game, though, Colorado received unfortunate news regarding defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/tag\/cale-makar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cale Makar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Makar <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FriedgeHNIC\/status\/2038823297643589943\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">left the game<\/a> on Monday night during the second period, as noted by Sportsnet NHL insider Elliotte Friedman. The Avalanche rolled through the Flames without Makar, securing a 9-2 win. After the game, head coach Jared Bednar confirmed the superstar defenseman suffered an upper-body injury. Bednar said the team will know more about the injury on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. More to come.<\/p>\n<p>The Colorado Avalanche took on the Calgary Flames in a late-season matchup.  This game featured a bit of emotion, as Nazem Kadri faced his former team for the first time since a trade earlier in March.  After the game, though, Colorado received unfortunate news regarding defenseman Cale Makar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Colorado Avalanche took on the Calgary Flames in a late-season matchup. This game featured a bit of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[193,1116,192,144,5277,5,4,7901],"class_list":{"0":"post-532227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-avalanche","8":"tag-avalanche","9":"tag-cale-makar","10":"tag-colorado","11":"tag-colorado-avalanche","12":"tag-coloradoavalanche","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-nhl-injury"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116321766983723573","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532227","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=532227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}