Colorado Avalanche’s Gabriel Landeskog expected to miss the entire 2023-24 season

The Colorado Avalanche announced Tuesday that captain and forward Gabriel Landeskog will undergo a cartilage transplant in his right knee on May 10.

The surgery is going to be performed at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois by Dr. Brian Cole. Landeskog is expected to miss the entire 2023-24 season.

The Stockholm, Sweden product missed all of 2022-23 following a procedure on his knee in October, the second he had on that same knee. Following the procedure, the initial prognosis was a 12-week recovery timeline. However, he was ruled out of the playoffs just days before they started, and the hopes of an Avalanche Stanley Cup repeat looked bleak. The Avalanche lost their first-round series matchup to the Seattle Kraken in seven games.

Landeskog was a pivotal member of the 2021-22 Stanley Cup-winning Avs squad; he registered 30 goals and 59 points in 51 regular season games and followed that up with 11 goals and 22 points in 20 postseason games to capture his first Stanley Cup and became the first European born captain to lead his team to Lord Stanley.

The 30-year-old is currently in year two of an eight-year $56 million extension he signed in the summer of 2021; the contract has an average annual value of $7,000,000 million.

Landeskog was drafted second overall by Colorado in the 2011 NHL Draft. Through 738 career games over parts of 11 regular seasons with the Avalanche, Landeskog has collected 248 goals and 571 points. The six-foot-one left winger has added 27 goals and 67 points in 69 career playoff contests.