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Colorado Avalanche News

MacKinnon has cleared COVID-19 protocol and is expected to play Tuesday in Washington.

MacKinnon missed the first two games of the season but received two negative COVID-19 tests and flew to Washington to join his team for Tuesday's game. MacKinnon will provide a huge boost to an Avalanche team that will be without Gabriel Landeskog (suspended) and Valeri Nichushkin.

Nathan MacKinnon