Parker’s Derrick White deserves Team USA Basketball spot
You can call the kids on the Grading The Week team a lot of things (and you have), but don’t call us homers. Unless Derrick White is involved. With Boston’s …
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Christian Braun isn’t Kentavious Caldwell-Pope. Nuggets can’t let KCP walk
If Kentavious Caldwell-Pope is a $20-million guard, I’m Chris Hemsworth. But by Odin’s raven, somebody’s going to offer it. Which is why I have far more sympathy for the Nuggets …
Avalanche can’t afford to wait on captain Gabe Landeskog anymore
Hope is no longer a strategy, O Captain, my Captain. Not a working strategy. Not a Stanley Cup-winning strategy, at any rate. Without Gabe Landeskog, the Avs are stuck spinning …
Sorry, Miro. Avalanche’s Cale Makar is NHL’s real Stanley Cup hero
Spare the wreaths. Hold the psalms. You come to bury Cale Makar, you better come correct. Lordy, the yapping. The peanut gallery on X tapped out 150-character obits, a troll …
If Avalanche’s Jared Bednar doesn’t adjust, Stars’ Pete DeBoer will smother him
What is it about the Stanley Cup Playoffs that turns Peter DeBoer into Robert Oppenheimer and Jared Bednar into Opie Taylor? “The margin between winning and losing is so slight,” …
Alexandar Georgiev deserved more support
Instant reaction from the Avalanche’s 4-1 loss to Dallas in Game 3 of their second-round Stanley Cup Playoffs series. 1. Georgie deserved better: As maddening as the opening 55 minutes …
Avalanche needs leader to deliver message to Stars’ Jamie Benn
DALLAS — Jamie Benn needs to “feel” you, as Nuggets coach Michael Malone likes to say. Right between the ears. If the NHL won’t send a message to Benn, the …
Avalanche’s Mikko Rantanen is mad. Heads up Dallas, you don’t make a Moose mad.
You feed a Moose in the wild, they get ornery. Then they want more. The last two times Avalanche winger Mikko Rantanen scored twice in a playoff game, he scored …
Alexandar Georgiev, all is forgiven! We’ve got a series, baby
Instant reaction from the Avalanche’s 5-2 win over the Winnipeg Jets in Game 2 of their first-round Stanley Cup Playoffs series. 1. Tip of the cap to Georgie (and to …
Avalanche’s Jared Bednar must start Justus Annunen Game 2 vs. Jets
Avalanche fans deserve Justus. Do whatever it takes, Jared Bednar. Nyquil. Mucinex. Voodoo. Anything that gets Avalanche backup goaltender Justus Annunen healthy and ready to start Game 2 of this …