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Colorado is going through an early-season avalanche of injuries, as the Avs will see both Nathan MacKinnon and Cale Makar sit out for a period of time.
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MacKinnon → go → time
The Avalanche (11-6-3, 25 points) stars will be sidelined for multiple weeks with lower-body injuries, coach Jared Bednar told reporters Saturday.
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Bednar → sideline → reporters
MacKinnon will miss at least a month, while Makar will be out for two weeks.
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Makar → miss → weeks
Both players got hurt Thursday night in a 4-3 loss to the Ottawa Senators (12-6-2, 26 points).
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players → hurt → Senators
MacKinnon, the Avalanche’s leader in points (30) and assists (20), left with just over eight minutes remaining in the loss after a check from Senators defenseman Artem Zub in the hip area.
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MacKinnon → leave → area
MacKinnon was seen grabbing his right side as he headed off the ice.
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he → see → ice
Makar, who appeared to suffer a noncontact injury while stopping in Colorado’s offensive end, left the game not long before MacKinnon’s exit.
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who → appear → exit
The injuries are a significant blow to Colorado, which relies heavily on them for offense.
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which → rely → offense
MacKinnon and Makar are both on the top power-play unit, which has scored 10 goals in the past 10 games.
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which → score → games
“Probably the most important is the 5-on-5 offense that they create,” Bednar told reporters, per NHL.com.
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Bednar → create → NHL.com
“We can be playing an OK game, chances equal, tight game, and those guys, like the top players do, will find a way to make a play that’s a difference-maker for you.
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that → play → you
Whether it’s Cale or ‘Mac,’ or both of them combined, they generally win us a lot of hockey games because of that.”
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they → ’ → that
Colorado’s injury woes seem to continue from last season, when they were eliminated in the 2026 Western Conference Finals in a 4-0 sweep by the Vegas Golden Knights, which saw Makar sidelined for most of the series.
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Makar → seem → series
Colorado is already without defenseman Josh Manson, who is on long-term injured reserve with an ankle injury.
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who → injure → injury
The Avalanche rattled off six more wins after opening the season 5-4-1 and are third in the Central Division heading into Saturday.
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Avalanche → rattle → Saturday
Colorado knows it won’t be easy to replace MacKinnon and Makar.
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it → know → MacKinnon
“When I think about those two guys, it’s like every matchup, they take it on, now someone else has to be able to step up and do that,” Bednar said.
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Bednar → think → that
“And then you are losing the depth down the lineup as you kind of do that because everyone is elevated.”
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everyone → lose → that
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