Timing might be a crummy silver lining, but the last seven months have shown the Avalanche just how important it is.
Gabriel Landeskog is out for the year, again. Colorado’s captain is expected to miss the entire 2023-24 season after a cartilage transplant in his right knee scheduled for Wednesday in Chicago. Landeskog, whose most recent appearance was Stanley Cup-clinching Game 6 in June 2022, maintained Tuesday that “I have not contemplated retirement at all” despite this being his fourth surgery since September 2020 attempting to repair the chronic injury to his patellar cartilage.
This particular transplant procedure was first brought up to him last September, while he was deciding on a course of action for the 2022-23 season.