Gabriel Landeskog is back. For real this time.
Two days after being activated from long-term injured reserve and taking warmups for the Avalanche before being scratched, Landeskog will play in Game 3 of Colorado’s first-round series against the Dallas Stars on Wednesday night at Denver’s Ball Arena. It’ll be the Avalanche captain’s first game in nearly three years.
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“I can only envision the crowd out there and what they would think,” Avalanche center Charlie Coyle said in Denver after Wednesday’s morning skate.
Landeskog initially hurt his right knee during the 2020 playoffs, when it was sliced by teammate Cale Makar’s skate after the defenseman had fallen to the ice. Landeskog had a procedure done that allowed him to return for the 2021-22 season, but the pain continued. Another surgery in March of 2022 allowed Landeskog to make it through Colorado’s Stanley Cup run — he had 11 goals and 11 assists in 20 games — but the pain persisted, and another operation didn’t fix it.
In May of 2023, Landeskog resorted to cartilage-transplant surgery. Nearly two years later, he has become the first NHL player to make it all the way back from such an operation. Longtime teammate and friend Erik Johnson called it “mental toughness at its finest.”
Colorado coach Jared Bednar had been coy about Landeskog’s status all series, but his return seemed inevitable once he played two games for the AHL’s Colorado Eagles last week, posting a goal and an assist.
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“Everyone is rooting for him, obviously,” Bednar said on Wednesday. “It’s a great comeback story. I trust in Gabe’s preparation — and what I’m seeing with my own eyes — that he’s getting close and ready to play. I think he feels really good about where he’s at, so we’ve had those discussions. Adding him back into our locker room (is huge) because he’s just like almost an extension of the coaching staff, but he’s still one of the guys, a guy that everyone looks up to. You can’t get enough of that this time of year. Hoping it goes really well for him the next few days.”
Even the Stars can’t help but be happy for Landeskog, a popular player throughout the league.
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“I’m thrilled,” Dallas’ Matt Duchene said about his former teammate and still-close friend on Wednesday. “That’s so much bigger than hockey and this series. … It makes our job harder having a guy like that out there. But on the friend side and the human side and the fellow athlete side, everyone’s happy to see the progress he’s made. Hopefully he’s got a lot of runway left. Hopefully it’s not one of those things where it acts back up.”
Dallas’ Mikko Rantanen, another longtime Landeskog teammate, also was thrilled to see him back on the ice.
“I was happy to see him play a couple games in the AHL,” Rantanen said. “It’s well deserved, because the journey he’s been through — I don’t think anyone else in hockey has gone through what he’s gone through. It’s remarkable he’s coming back, if he’s coming back, as a friend.
Then Rantanen smiled.
“But as an opponent, obviously, no mercy.”
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