{"id":1301865,"date":"2018-12-28T06:21:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T13:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/?p=439598"},"modified":"2018-12-28T06:21:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T13:21:10","slug":"avalanches-nathan-mackinnon-named-central-division-captain-for-2019-nhl-all-star-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/avalanches-nathan-mackinnon-named-central-division-captain-for-2019-nhl-all-star-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche\u2019s Nathan MacKinnon named Central Division captain for 2019 NHL All-Star Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Avalanche center\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stats.denverpost.com\/hockey\/nhl\/player\/5002\">Nathan MacKinnon<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday was named the captain of the Central Division for the 2019 NHL All-Star Game.<\/p>\n<p>MacKinnon, 23, earned the honor after winning the fan vote for the division. Toronto&#8217;s Auston Matthews (Atlantic), Washington&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stats.denverpost.com\/hockey\/nhl\/player\/1216\">Alex Ovechkin<\/a>\u00a0(Metropolitan) and Edmonton&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stats.denverpost.com\/hockey\/nhl\/player\/6362\">Connor McDavid<\/a>(Pacific) are the other three captains.<\/p>\n<p>The Colorado star is third in the NHL in points with 56 (22 goals and 34 assists), three behind league-leader and linemate\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stats.denverpost.com\/hockey\/nhl\/player\/6371\">Mikko Rantanen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This will be MacKinnon&#8217;s third straight all-star appearance. He is the first Avs player to be named an all-star captain since\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/tag\/joe-sakic\/\">Joe Sakic<\/a>\u00a0in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The all-star game will take place at 6 p.m. on Jan. 26 at the SAP Center in San Jose, Calif. The rest of the all-star rosters will be determined by the NHL&#8217;s Hockey Operations Department.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2018\/12\/27\/nathan-mackinnon-central-division-captain-nhl-all-star-game\/\">The Denver Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/news\/avalanches-nathan-mackinnon-named-central-division-captain-for-2019-nhl-all-star-game\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Vail Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avalanche center\u00a0Nathan MacKinnon\u00a0on Thursday was named the captain of the Central Division for the 2019 NHL All-Star Game. MacKinnon, 23, earned the honor after winning the fan vote for the division. Toronto&#8217;s Auston Matthews (Atlantic), Washington&#8217;s\u00a0Alex Ovechkin\u00a0(Metropolitan) and Edmonton&#8217;s\u00a0Connor McDavid(Pacific) are the other three captains. The Colorado star is third in the NHL in points [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1301865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 20:30:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}