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Kadri (LBI) out indefinitely

February 11, 2020, 3:47 PM ET [2 Comments]
Rick Sadowski
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The Avalanche will be without second-line center Nazem Kadri for an indefinite period because of a lower-body injury he sustained Sunday in Minnesota.

Not a good thing, obviously, as they open a five-game homestand Tuesday against Ottawa.

GAME NOTES

“We’ll just keep reevaluating him, but he’s going to miss some time here,” coach Jared Bednar said on his radio show Tuesday morning. “Hopefully it’s sooner rather than later, but it will be weeks, not days.”

Kadri, who has 36 points (19 goals, 17 assists) in 51 games, will be replaced on the second line by J.T. Compher, who has 25 points (eight goals, 17 assists) in 51 games.

“It’s a big loss," Bednar said. "You’ve got a faceoff guy, a power-play guy, a second-line center who adds some experience. But we’ve done a nice job throughout the course of the year with other guys stepping up their games. This is an opportunity for some other guys in the middle. I’m confident that other guys can step up and fill that void.”

The Avalanche are coming off a 4-1-0 road trip, have gone 7-1-0 in the past eight games and have a point in nine of the past 10 games (7-1-2). They are second in the Central Division, three points behind first-place St. Louis with two games in hand.

The projected lineup:

FORWARDS
Gabriel Landeskog -- Nathan MacKinnon -- Mikko Rantanen
Valeri Nichushkin – J.T. Compher -- Andre Burakovsky
Matt Calvert – Pierre-Edouard Bellemare -- Joonas Donskoi
Matt Nieto -- Tyson Jost -- Vladislav Kamenev

DEFENSE
Ryan Graves -- Cale Makar
Samuel Girard -- Erik Johnson
Nikita Zadorov -- Ian Cole

GOALIES
Philipp Grubauer
Pavel Francouz

Things are moving along at the Air Force Academy, where on Saturday the Avalanche will play Los Angeles at Falcon Stadium.

Here’s my
FALCON STADIUM UPDATE STORY




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