Colorado Avalanche team captain Gabriel Landeskog is set to play Sunday against Washington after missing time due to a lower-body injury. The 33-year-old forward was hurt during a March 6 game against Dallas and has battled knee problems for years.
Gabriel Landeskog, team captain for the Colorado Avalanche, is making his comeback Sunday afternoon when his squad faces Washington in the nation’s capital.
The veteran forward has been out of action since suffering a lower-body injury in Colorado’s March 6 shootout win over Dallas, which ended 5-4.
Speaking before Sunday’s game, Avalanche head coach Jared Bednar expressed his enthusiasm about getting his captain back on the ice. “It’s good to have him back,” Bednar told reporters. “We’ve got a lot of these top-six wingers out of the lineup right now. We’ve brought them all with us on the road. They’re all making progress. Landeskog will go (this afternoon) and then hopefully we can continue to add guys here on this road trip. But he’ll make a significant difference for us here (today), and it’s good to see him back healthy and still with some runway to go here before the playoffs.”
The 33-year-old Landeskog has recorded 29 points this season, including nine goals and 20 assists across 47 games.
Landeskog helped Colorado capture the Stanley Cup championship in 2022, but his career has been severely impacted by persistent knee troubles. He was forced to sit out three complete regular seasons between 2022 and 2025 due to complications with his right knee, requiring several operations including a cartilage transplant procedure performed on May 10, 2023.
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