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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Matt Duchene (forefront) scored 23 goals in 71 games this season. (Karl Gehring/Getty Images)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Avalanche center Matt Duchene has a knee injury and will miss \"roughly\" four weeks, the team announced on Monday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Duchene, who had an MRI on Sunday, suffered the injury on his first shift of Saturday's 3-2 win over the Sharks. He collided knee-to-knee with teammate Jamie McGinn and made it back to the bench on his own power but didn't return to the game.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SI WIRE: Devils goalie Martin Brodeur: '80 percent' chance I'll play next season&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The 23-year-old leads the team in points (70) and assists (47), and his +8 rating was the best of his five-year career.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Haliburton, Ontario, native won a gold medal with Team Canada in Sochi.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Colorado (47-21-6), which has won three in a row, will likely be without Duchene through the first round of the playoffs, which begins on April 16. The Avalanche clinched their first playoff berth since 2010 on Saturday.\n&lt;strong&gt;MUIR: Today's must-read NHL stories&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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