Avalanche face unique challenges during uncertain summer
No NHL team has won more regular-season games over the past four seasons than the Colorado Avalanche. The only clubs with more playoff victories in that span are Tampa Bay, …
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Assessing options for Colorado Avalanche in NHL draft first round
Chris MacFarland could use another couple of days at the NHL draft like he experienced a year ago. The Colorado Avalanche general manager won’t have some of the same tools …
Andrew Cogliano retires, joins Avalanche front office
Andrew Cogliano has decided to retire after 17 NHL seasons and will join the Colorado Avalanche front office, he announced Friday through the club. Cogliano, who played 1,294 regular-season games …
Who could Colorado Avalanche target to fill holes at forward?
The 2024 NHL offseason started unofficially Wednesday with a flurry of transactions, as several teams decided they couldn’t wait until the end of the Stanley Cup Final to start reshaping …
What’s next for the Avalanche and Valeri Nichushkin?
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The view from outside Denver on Valeri Nichushkin’s situation with the Avalanche is filled with fascination and conflicted feelings. Nichushkin is suspended through at least mid-November and …
Avalanche GM Chris MacFarland, Jonathan Drouin’s agent to meet
BUFFALO — One of the few certainties of this Colorado Avalanche offseason is Jonathan Drouin would like to continue playing for the team and the most important members of the …
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 needs its value-rebuilding factory to work again
Zach Parise called his time with the Colorado Avalanche amazing and special and said it “pushed me to a spot I didn’t feel I could still (get to)” shortly after …
Avalanche offseason depth chart: Plenty of questions, openings
For a handful of teams around the NHL, it is existential crisis season. Early playoff exits lead to macro-level discussions like does Team X have the right core players or …
Avs need Gabe Landeskog, Val Nichushkin back, should only wait for the captain
Listening to Gabe Landeskog talk about learning to walk again, it was impossible to run from the truth. Landeskog would give his right knee to play for the Avalanche again. …