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Gabriel Landeskog<\/a> will miss \u201csome weeks\u201d for the Colorado Avalanche, and it\u2019s unclear if he will be able to play for Sweden in the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026.<\/p>\n

Landeskog, the Avalanche captain, sustained an upper-body injury early in the second period of a 2-1 loss at the Florida Panthers on Sunday when he lost his footing while driving to the net and crashed into the goal.<\/p>\n

“He’s going to miss some weeks,\u201d Colorado coach Jared Bednar said Tuesday before its game at the Tampa Bay Lightning (7 p.m. ET; The Spot, ALT, SNE, TVAS). \u201cI don’t know exactly how long [he\u2019ll be out]; we’ll have a better idea when we get back. We’ll see how he’s feeling, but he’s going to miss some time.”<\/p>\n

Landeskog, who has 22 points (seven goals, 15 assists) in 41 games this season, was named to the Team Sweden roster for the Winter Olympics on Jan. 2.<\/p>\n

The Avalanche (31-3-7) have 14 games scheduled before the NHL Olympic break starts on Feb. 5.<\/p>\n

“The injury is fresh,\u201d Bednar said. \u201cYou’ve got to give him some time and see how he deals with it. Then we’ll be able to set a clear timeline.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is the first time NHL players will participate in the Winter Olympics since 2014 in Sochi, Russia. Sweden plays its first game on Feb. 11 against Team Italy.<\/p>\n

\u201cReally hoping for \u2018Landy’s\u2019 sake that he’s back and able to compete in [the Olympics],\u201d Bednar said. \u201cI know he’s been looking forward to it.”<\/p>\n

Landeskog, 33, had played in each of the Avalanche\u2019s first 41 games this season after missing three full regular seasons because of issues with his right knee, including a cartilage transplant on May 10, 2023. He returned for Game 3 of the Western Conference First Round against the Dallas Stars last season. Colorado lost that series in seven games.<\/p>\n

He has been a mainstay of Sweden’s international teams, including gold medals at the World Championship in 2013 and 2017, and a silver medal at the 2014 Olympics. Landeskog also played at the 2009 World U-18, the 2011 World Junior Championship, the 2016 World Cup of Hockey and the World Championship in 2012 and 2019, in addition to the two he medaled in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gabriel Landeskog will miss \u201csome weeks\u201d for the Colorado Avalanche, and it\u2019s unclear if he will be able…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":497385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-497384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115850297010530982","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}