{"id":533749,"date":"2026-04-01T00:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T00:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/533749\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T00:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T00:11:13","slug":"cale-makar-injury-not-serious-but-could-miss-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/533749\/","title":{"rendered":"Cale Makar injury &#8216;not serious&#8217; but could miss time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nhl\/colorado-avalanche\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a> have already earned a guaranteed spot in the <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/tag\/stanley-cup-playoffs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stanley Cup Playoffs<\/a> this season. However, it sounds like key defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/tag\/cale-makar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cale Makar<\/a> is dealing with an injury after the team&#8217;s 9-2 win over the Calgary Flames on Monday. Makar received an official injury update, revealing his official status.<\/p>\n<p>After suffering an upper-body injury against the Flames, reports indicate that Makar&#8217;s injury is <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PierreVLeBrun\/status\/2039109671177379850\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">not deemed to be serious<\/a>, according to Pierre LeBrun of TSN and RDS. Although it&#8217;s good news, the 27-year-old defender could miss some games to get healthy for the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Cale Makar, don&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s too serious,\u201d reported LeBrun. \u201cBut he will likely miss a few games in order to get him to 100 percent before the playoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Avalanche only has nine games remaining on the schedule. It sounds like Makar is set to potentially miss at least the next three games. His official status for Wednesday&#8217;s contest against the Vancouver Canucks remains up in the air. Colorado will likely announce its plans for Cale Makar before the start of that game.<\/p>\n<p>Makar, who is a seven-year veteran, is enjoying another solid campaign with the Avalanche. He&#8217;s played in 73 games so far, recording 75 points (20 goals, 55 assists) for Colorado. His injury status is seemingly great news for a franchise hoping to make a deep run in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>This story is currently developing, and more information will be published soon.<\/p>\n<p>The Colorado Avalanche have already earned a guaranteed spot in the Stanley Cup Playoffs this season.  However, it sounds like key defenseman Cale Makar is dealing with an injury after the team&#8217;s 9-2 win over the Calgary Flames on Monday.  Makar received an official injury update, revealing his official status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Colorado Avalanche have already earned a guaranteed spot in the Stanley Cup Playoffs this season. However, it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463,464],"tags":[1116,144,5,4,7901,60,14,104,718],"class_list":{"0":"post-533749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl-playoffs","8":"category-stanley-cup-playoffs","9":"tag-cale-makar","10":"tag-colorado-avalanche","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-nhl-injury","14":"tag-nhl-playoffs","15":"tag-stanley-cup","16":"tag-stanley-cup-playoffs","17":"tag-stanley-cup-playoffs-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533749","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=533749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}