Edmonton Oilers, Dallas Stars set for Western Conference final clash
Pete DeBoer met with his captain shortly after arriving in Texas. The message from the Dallas Stars head coach to Jamie Benn in June 2022 was clear. And the veteran …
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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 …
Nathan MacKinnon, Cale Makar deliver
Instant reaction from the Avalanche’s 5-3 win at Dallas in Game 5 of their second-round Stanley Cup Playoffs series. 1. MacKinnon, Makar come through: What was it Michael Malone reminded …
Avalanche’s 3-1 deficit too steep a hill to climb
Instant reaction from the Avalanche’s 5-1 loss to Dallas in Game 4 of their second-round Stanley Cup Playoffs series. 1. No mojo = hard road: Whatever the Avs did to …
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 …
Dallas Stars dared Avalanche’s Alexandar Georgiev to beat them. He did.
DALLAS — He’s a Stanley Cup felon now, wanted in two countries, but the law can’t catch Alexandar Georgiev if he catches them first. Two counts of petty theft in …
Avalanche-Stars Game 1 quick hits
Instant reaction from the Avalanche’s 4-3 win over the Dallas Stars in Game 1 of their second-round Stanley Cup Playoffs series. 1. Even if you don’t believe in Santa Claus: …