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UCalgary sport scientist key to Colorado Avalanche captain Gabe Landeskog’s NHL comeback

The first time Colorado Avalanche star Gabe Landeskog limped through the door of the Integrative Neuromuscular Sport Performance Lab (INSPL), tucked away in the University of Calgary’s iconic Olympic Oval, he did so with both a ravaged knee, which threatened to end his hockey career, and an uneasy mind. It was spring 2024 and the youngest team captain in NHL history was fiercely determined to return to the game for the first time since June 2022, when he led the Avalanche to a Stanley Cup win. But Landeskog also felt a heaviness, painfully aware that the odds were against him. Four years prior, a freak accident on the ice saw him take a tendon-slashing skate blade to his right knee. Clearly, he recovered, given that Stanley Cup victory, but, by 2023, cumulative factors stemming from the injury and the relentless grind of the game had taken their toll, keeping Landeskog sidelined for two seasons. After months of failed rehab, he underwent major surgery, a cartilage replacement in the knee. If he was to salvage his career, this would be his only hope. But there was no guarantee he would recover sufficiently to make his way back to the NHL. That’s what brought him to leading-edge sport-scientist and strength-and-conditioning coach Dr. Matthew Jordan, an assistant professor in UCalgary’s Faculty of Kinesiology and INSPL’s lead researcher of muscle strength and power.