Everything was going pretty well for the Avalanche. They were <I>en route</I> to easily finish first in their division, but they received a bad news today. According to head coach Jared Bednar, Nathan MacKinnon will miss some time with an upper-body injury. The level of concern is high per Bednar. The injury could possibly be linked to his fight with Matt Dumba on Sunday. <div align='center'><blockquote class='twitter-tweet' data-lang='en'><a href='https://twitter.com/Peter_Baugh/status/1508869013069201408?s=20&t=U0kUcMvalyLHzbX_J89kYg'> </a></blockquote></div> The Avalanche already had to deal with the absences of Gabriel Landeskog, Samuel Girard, Bowen Byram and Ryan Murray. You can now add MacKinnon to this list.