The injury-plagued Avalanche will be without another key player on a “week-to-week” basis, coach Jared Bednar said Saturday morning, because defenseman Nikita Zadorov sustained a broken jaw Thursday and required surgery Friday.
“Everything went well, so we’ll just see how things go the next couple days and then we’ll try to get him back on the ice,” Bednar said of Zadorov, who will practice with the team in a non-contact sweater while his jaw heals.
Zadorov joins forwards Mikko Rantanen (left leg), Gabe Landeskog (lower-body), Colin Wilson (lower-body) and goalie Philipp Grubauer (lower-body) on the injured list.