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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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 …
Avalanche GM, captain rooting for Valeri Nichushkin, but he has work to do
Chris MacFarland and Gabe Landeskog spent nearly an hour taking questions from assembled media Thursday, and there were nearly as many queries about Valeri Nichushkin as there were about the …
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 …
Colorado’s stars give Avalanche some hope after big Game 5 performance
DALLAS — If anyone turned off the television midway through Game 4 and avoided the events of last night, they’d likely assume the Colorado Avalanche’s season was over. It certainly …
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,” …
Defense-first Stars befuddle Avalanche, win Game 3 for 2-1 series lead
Colorado’s high-flying hockey team has run into a problem it’s going to need to solve, and that’s the defensive acumen of the Dallas Stars. The Avalanche dominated Game 3 of …
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 …
Josh Manson’s Game 1 save another highlight in strong season
DALLAS — Alexandar Georgiev has earned a lot of deserved praise for his mental toughness and resilience after a tough Game 1 to start the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs. Josh …