Avalanche star Nathan Mackinnon left the game with an upper body injury. He is seen in the video below skating along the blue line and firing a shot on net, where he looks in pain immediately after.
Here's the footage Altitude showed pertaining to Nathan MacKinnon's injury#GoAvsGo pic.twitter.com/azomltxUgw� Hockey Daily 365 l NHL Highlights (@HockeyDaily365) December 6, 2022
It was announced shortly after that he has left the game and will not return.
Nathan MacKinnon has left the game with an upper body injury and will not return.� Colorado Avalanche (@Avalanche) December 6, 2022
The Avalanche have been dealing with injuries all season, but losing MacKinnon is seriously going to hurt the Aves!
Avs now have 10 players out with injuries-
MacKinnon
Landeskog
Lehkonen
Nichushkin
Rodrigues
Helm
Byram
Manson
MacDermid
Bowers
Foudy#GoAvsGo� J.D. Killian (@JDKpirate) December 6, 2022
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