Avalanche captain Landeskog activated from IR, but not playing Game 2 against Stars

Stephen Whyno · The Associated Press

· Posted: Apr 21, 2025 8:57 PM EDT | Last Updated: 20 minutes ago

The Colorado Avalanche activated skipper Gabriel Landeskog disconnected injured reserve, but again delayed his much-anticipated instrumentality erstwhile helium was scratched from playing Game 2 of their first-round bid against the Dallas Stars connected Monday night.

Landeskog, who hasn't played successful astir 3 years, was the archetypal Avalanche skater to instrumentality the crystal for pre-game warmups aft being activated earlier successful the day. But erstwhile the roster study was released aft that, helium was a scratch.

It has been much than 1,000 days since the 32-year-old guardant past played for the Avalanche connected June 26, 2022, erstwhile they bushed Tampa Bay 2-1 successful Game 6 to clinch the Stanley Cup.

The bid switches to Denver for Game 3 connected Wednesday night.

A chronic close genu wounded that led to 2 surgeries kept him disconnected the crystal done aggregate attempts to get back.

Landeskog did a two-game conditioning stint with the American Hockey League's Colorado Eagles earlier this period to instrumentality different measurement guardant successful the process. He had practised with the Avalanche starring up to their opener successful the NHL playoffs.

Having Landeskog could beryllium boost for the Avalanche, who won the bid opener 5-1 against the short-handed Stars. Dallas is without apical defenceman Miro Heiskanen aft his genu country and starring goal-scorer Jason Robertson, who was injured successful the last crippled of the regular season.