Nobody quite knows when Gabriel Landeskog will be back from his knee injury, not even Avalanche coaches and executives.
But coach Jared Bednar made an important distinction this week about the nature of the captain’s recovery: The arthroscopic knee surgery Landeskog underwent in October 2022 was unrelated to the knee issue that led to surgery in March 2022.
The first one was more of a clean-up procedure, not caused by a specific injury that was going to imminently prevent Landeskog from playing. “It was bothering him, so he got it fixed,” Bednar said. “Good timing to get it fixed.