{"id":536241,"date":"2026-04-02T08:34:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T08:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/536241\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T08:34:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T08:34:22","slug":"cale-makar-to-miss-time-with-upper-body-injury-ahead-of-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/536241\/","title":{"rendered":"Cale Makar to miss time with upper-body injury ahead of playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1397459_110357_updates.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"686\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"Colorado Avalanche injury update: Cale Makar to miss time with upper-body injury ahead of playoffs\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Colorado Avalanche say star defenceman Cale Makar will \u201cmiss some time\u201d with an upper-body injury, though the team insists it is not serious.<\/p>\n<p>Makar was injured during a 9-2 win over the Calgary Flames on Monday. He recorded three assists before leaving the game late in the second period and did not return for the third.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Jared Bednar said the team is taking a cautious approach as the playoffs approach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s doing OK,&#8221; Bednar said. &#8220;He&#8217;s going to miss some time, though. Like nothing serious, like nothing that&#8217;s putting (the) playoffs in jeopardy or anything like that. &#8230; It&#8217;s like if someone has something going on this time of year, we want to make sure they&#8217;re right for (the) playoffs and last handful of games of the season. So yeah, we&#8217;re going to keep him out for a little bit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bednar confirmed Makar will not be ruled out for the remainder of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>The Avalanche, who have already secured a playoff spot, have nine games left before the post-season begins on April 18.<\/p>\n<p>Makar has been one of the league\u2019s top defencemen this season, with 75 points in 73 games.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Colorado Avalanche say star defenceman Cale Makar will \u201cmiss some time\u201d with an upper-body injury, though the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[193,192,144,5277,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-536241","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\/116334198071078531","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536241","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=536241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}