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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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, …
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 …
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 …
Can Jonathan Drouin, Avalanche be long-term fit?
Jonathan Drouin authored one of the best stories in the NHL this season and provided the Colorado Avalanche with incredible value. Now, the question is will both sides be able …
Avalanche’s five biggest questions for the offseason
No other team in the NHL has three players in the prime of their careers at the level of Nathan MacKinnon, Cale Makar and Mikko Rantanen. Conversely, no other team …
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 …
Avalanche’s certainty at center helps ease cloudy future
It hasn’t been a great week for certainty about the future of the Avalanche roster. The Avs already had one key player — captain Gabe Landeskog — whose future contributions …
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 …