Center Nathan MacKinnon and defenseman Erik Johnson went through off-ice video study of new coach Jared Bednar’s systems to get caught up as much as possible with their teammates Sunday, then practiced with the Avalanche on Monday.

Both were back after their teams didn’t advance beyond the preliminary round of the World Cup of Hockey. MacKinnon’s Team North America, made up of Canadians and Americans 23 and younger, went 2-1 but didn’t advance because of a head-to-head loss to Russia, and Johnson’s U.S. team went 0-3.

MacKinnon had two goals and an assist in the three games. His spectacular overtime goal against Sweden remained one of the tournament’s most talked-about plays, when he deked out and beat goalie Henrik Lundqvist to give Team North America a 4-3 win.

“I didn’t know I had that move in me, to be honest with you,” MacKinnon said. “I just got it from Johnny (Gaudreau of Calgary), and Lundqvist tried to poke check and I managed to toe drag around it and score, so it definitely felt good.”

MacKinnon said the tournament in Toronto “was great, it was a good experience.” He said it stunk “that we didn’t move on to the semis, but it was fun playing with those guys, a good learning experience and I’m excited to get back here. … Competing against the world’s best and being successful as a team and as an individual feels good.”

He added: “I was pretty rattled when we got eliminated. I wanted to play against Canada in the semifinals. That would have been exciting.”

Johnson played in only two of the Americans’ three games and didn’t have a point.

“It was tough,” Johnson said. “Once you’re behind the 8-ball with one (loss), you’re pretty much chasing from there. It was disappointing, but at the same time, not a lot of people get the opportunity at the highest level, so that’s always an honor. The result wasn’t what we wanted, so that was very disappointing.”

Now they’re back at their day jobs, so to speak, work under Bednar.

“Nate and I came in for video (Sunday) for about an hour to go over some stuff that he wants us to do,” Johnson said. “I think it’ll be a pretty easy transition.”

MacKinnon said of his new coach: “He’s a really smart guy. I really like him, he explains himself well and is really clear. He’s going to demand a lot out of me, which I like. I’m excited for the season, I think it’s going to be a bounce-back year for us.”

Is Bednar’s system different from what the Avalanche did under Patrick Roy?

“Yeah, it is,” MacKinnon said. “Now every puck we get, we want to move it up quickly and use our speed and not wait and go D-to-D, back to D and slow the game down. We have very good skaters on our team, and we want to use that.”

As of Monday, the Avs still were without four other players who participated in the World Cup. Center Matt Duchene will skate for Canada in the best-of-three championship series against Team Europe beginning Tuesday. Forwards Gabe Landeskog and Carl Soderberg of Sweden and goalie Semyon Varlamov of Russia, whose teams lost in the semifinals, will rejoin the Avalanche this week.

Footnotes. The Avalanche trimmed six players from its preseason roster. Four were returned to their major junior teams: defenseman Josh Anderson and left wing Brogan O’Brien (both of Prince George), left wing Travis Barron (Ottawa 67s) and left wing Jeffrey Truchon-Viel (Acadie-Bathurst). Right wing Jackson Houck was assigned to the Avalanche’s American Hockey League affiliate, the San Antonio Rampage, and center Gustav Olhaver was sent to Rogle J20 in Sweden. … The Avalanche opens the exhibition season Tuesday at Minnesota. Neither Johnson nor MacKinnon will make that trip. Because of the World Cup, the NHL has suspended the rule that at least eight veterans must be in the lineups for each team in exhibition games.