Avalanche’s Logan O’Connor Has Hip Surgery, Out 5-6 Months

Logan O’Connor will not be ready for the start of the 2025-26 season.

The Avalanche announced Friday that the forward underwent successful hip surgery and will be out for 5-6 months.

O’Connor is coming off an incredible playoff performance, scoring two goals and posting six points in the seven-game series loss to the Dallas Stars. He had just five points in 31 postseason games before this.

The 28-year-old, who will be 29 this summer, had a lingering hip issue in 2024 that ended his season early. He missed the entire 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs. O’Connor said last fall that he was skating normally for a month heading into training camp and thought that his hip issues were behind him.

“I’ve actually had the torn labrum side of it for six years, which a lot of hockey guys would have,” O’Connor told Evan Rawal last summer. “For whatever reason, come November, it just became symptomatic. I missed those two games (in the) middle of November, and then it was something I was managing along the way. The pain, I could always sort of manage and get through.”

O’Connor appeared in 80 regular-season games in 2024-25 and had 10 goals and 11 assists. When he returns, he’ll likely slot back in on the fourth line with Jack Drury and Parker Kelly. The trio developed incredible chemistry down the stretch and into the playoffs.

Next season will be the first of a six-year, $15 million contract ($2.5 million AAV) that O’Connor signed nine months ago.