{"id":414812,"date":"2022-12-31T10:25:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T10:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/avs-optimistic-nathan-mackinnon-returns-saturday\/"},"modified":"2022-12-31T10:25:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T10:25:19","slug":"avs-optimistic-nathan-mackinnon-returns-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/avs-optimistic-nathan-mackinnon-returns-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Avs optimistic Nathan MacKinnon returns Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Nathan MacKinnon could be back in the Colorado Avalanche lineup when they host the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday.<\/h1>\n<h2>Out the past 11 games with an upper-body injury, MacKinnon was expected to decide his status prior to puck drop Saturday night. He hasn&#8217;t played since leaving a 5-3 loss at the Philadelphia Flyers on Dec. 5.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s close too. Really close,&#8221; Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said. &#8220;When he tells me he&#8217;s ready to go, he&#8217;ll play. Until then, we&#8217;re on hold.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>MacKinnon, 27, left the game after blocking a shot and taking a hit along the boards from Flyers forward Scott Laughton.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>MacKinnon led Colorado with 34 points (eight goals, 26 assists) through 23 games.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>He has posted 682 points (250 goals, 432 assists) in 661 games since Colorado drafted him No. 1 overall in 2013.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan MacKinnon could be back in the Colorado Avalanche lineup when they host the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday. Out the past 11 games with an upper-body injury, MacKinnon was expected to decide his status prior to puck drop Saturday night. He hasn&#8217;t played since leaving a 5-3 loss at the Philadelphia Flyers on Dec. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}