{"id":532552,"date":"2026-03-31T09:27:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/532552\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:27:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:27:52","slug":"makar-klingberg-dellandrea-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/532552\/","title":{"rendered":"Makar, Klingberg, Dellandrea \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colorado Avalanche superstar Cale Makar<\/a> left mid-game against the Flames tonight and would not return, per the team<\/a>. The defender left late in the second period with an apparent upper body injury, but it was not immediately obvious what happened.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Makar is putting his final touches on what has been another remarkable campaign, not yet missing a single game and posting 72 points in as many games. He\u2019s third in team scoring, but would be ranked first by a wide margin on several other clubs. The electric skater also averages just one second under 25 minutes a night.<\/p>\n

One of just two teams to already have a playoff spot locked down (Dallas), Colorado is closing in on the Presidents\u2019 Trophy which would be their first since 2020-21, and their fourth in franchise history. It goes without saying that losing Makar would be a crushing blow, especially as he\u2019s evidently been shaken up in a lower stakes game against his hometown team that got quickly out of hand on the scoreboard.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s plenty of reason for optimism though, as the 27-year-old has been extremely durable throughout his career, and exited the contest quietly. Updates will be watched closely post-game, with the hope that their #1 defenseman is right back at it Wednesday against Vancouver.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere across the league:<\/p>\n

Veteran John Klingberg<\/a> was a morning skate participant, observed by Curtis Pashelka, San Jose Beat Writer<\/a>. The defenseman has missed three straight with an upper body injury, including tonight, yet it\u2019s encouraging news nonetheless as the Sharks look to close the book on 2025-26 in a good way. After bouncing around across several teams with an uncertain future from injury toll, the former star has settled nicely as a Shark, with 24 points in 54 games on over 20 minutes a game and staying relatively healthy for a change. The 33-year-old will hit free agency again this summer and it\u2019ll be interesting to see if San Jose keeps him around given the results.\u00a0
\nForward Ty Dellandrea<\/a>\u2019s status has improved to day-to-day, reported by Sheng Peng of San Jose Hockey Now<\/a>. Unfortunately he\u2019s had to miss the last 30 games with a lower-body injury, not in the lineup since early January, but it\u2019s looking like the role player will get some more action before 2025-26 comes to an end. Once a high draft pick by Dallas, the 25-year-old has become a true bottom six center capable of killing penalties and forechecking. Dellandrea has just 11 points on the season, along with poor metrics at even strength, but he\u2019s winning faceoffs at a 52.3% rate, and offers size at 6\u20192\u201d. His efforts earned a two-year extension signed earlier this month<\/a>, as the Ontario native has found a home on the exciting young team.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colorado Avalanche superstar Cale Makar left mid-game against the Flames tonight and would not return, per the team.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[1116,144,5,402,691,168,24766],"class_list":{"0":"post-532552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-cale-makar","9":"tag-colorado-avalanche","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-injury","12":"tag-john-klingberg","13":"tag-san-jose-sharks","14":"tag-ty-dellandrea"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116323085143943472","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532552","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=532552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}