Coming into this season, it seemed as if the Colorado Avalanche had an abundance of options to bolster their bottom-six. However, through 15 games in, that is no longer the case. The largest issue for the Avalanche this season has definitely been their forward depth. Many had high hopes that the players involved in that
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Coming off a week of rest due to COVID-19 protocols, the Colorado Avalanche returned to the ice this week for a three-game series against the second place Vegas Golden Knights, in perhaps their most crucial series yet. The series included a special outdoor game at Lake Tahoe that brought a dazzling landscape to an already gratifying
The Colorado Avalanche are glad to get the band back together. Three players that had recently missed time due to injuries scored goals as the Avalanche dumped the Vegas Golden Knights 3-2 on Saturday just off of Lake Tahoe in Stateline, Nev. The game was held up by a delay of roughly eight hours after
Despite being only a month into the NHL season, despite no fans being in attendance, the bout between the Colorado Avalanche and Vegas Golden Knights on Tuesday night held a palpable energy and intensity. The Avalanche, coming off of a COVID hiatus, are chasing the Knights in the standings and needed to make up ground
Nazem Kadri isn’t to everyone’s taste as a player, but you can’t fault him for playing it safe. He’s seldom played safe, and that often got him into trouble. He was all in, all the time. Related: Toronto Maple Leafs: Revisiting the Nazem Kadri Trade When he played with the Toronto Maple Leafs, which he
In today’s NHL rumors rundown, could Sidney Crosby request a trade to a Stanley Cup contender? One scribe said he wouldn’t be surprised if the superstar wound up with a team like the Colorado Avalanche. Still with the Pittsburgh Penguins, did they talk to the Montreal Canadiens about a huge trade and is there interest
If you love great goaltending, then you would have been smitten with Valentine’s Day in Las Vegas. Marc-Andre Fleury and Philipp Grubauer combined for 53 saves on Sunday, but Fleury stopped every shot he faced to lead the Vegas Golden Knights to a 1-0 win over the Colorado Avalanche. Colorado hadn’t played since a gritty
Injuries and a graveyard week of play due to the team honoring COVID-19 protocols, have been the subjects of fireside chats among Colorado Avalanche fans this past week. Yet the Avs stand tied at third place in the Honda West Division, and are in a comfortable place to make the playoffs early on. They have put
The Colorado Avalanche haven’t played a game since Groundhog’s Day and, at the risk of using a played out joke, practice has to be getting pretty repetitive. Colorado’s set to play four games in eight days against the Vegas Golden Knights, with the first two coming on the road with Sunday’s and Tuesday’s games to
The injury bug has struck the Colorado Avalanche again, but maybe it never left. Missing players slashed Colorado’s playoff run short last summer, and the bench is getting pretty thin again for the Avalanche just 10 games into this season. Six players are out, with the most recent being leading scorer Nathan MacKinnon, who only
Just last week, I wrote a column about the Colorado Avalanche’s weekly performance where I indicated that they needed more offense from their depth forwards. Either they somehow read my article, or it was sheer dumb luck because their secondary scoring has kicked it up a notch against the Minnesota Wild. Probably the latter. And
In today’s NHL rumors rundown, there are updates on the Pittsburgh Penguins GM search and what the team expects the top candidates to make a priority. Could one of the potential GMs be coming from an unexpected place? The Washington Capitals will be getting back two of the four players removed from the team for
The Colorado Avalanche have been crushing teams on the power play in the early stages of this season, but the Los Angeles Kings flipped the script on them on Thursday. Los Angeles erased a two-goal deficit with two power-play goals in the second period to set up a 4-2 win over the Avalanche. It was
The 2020-21 NHL season is just over a week old and there have already been moments worth celebrating for the Colorado Avalanche after three games. There was the 8-0 blowout of the St. Louis Blues, newcomers Brandon Saad and Devon Toews scored their first goals in burgundy and blue, and goaltender Philipp Grubauer has already
Sports fans would not be sports fans without their expectations. Whether they are high, low or middling, expectations abound on social media, the local bar or suburban home. With the 2020-21 NHL season starting, fans, writers and even the organizations themselves and setting the bar for how they believe teams and players should perform. The
As the World Juniors wrap up this week, hockey fans will only have eight more days to kill before the NHL season is officially underway. The Colorado Avalanche have four prospects representing them at the tournament while the current team began training camp on Sunday. In this article, we’ll be focusing on the NHLers over
The two biggest rivals of the Colorado Avalanche are arguably the Detroit Red Wings and the Minnesota Wild. It’s been hard for Avalanche fans to get as riled up about facing those teams, as Colorado’s trajectory is going in the opposite direction of both those franchises. The Avalanche are one of the favorites to win
So close, yet so far away. Nathan MacKinnon has risen to the top echelon of the NHL over the last three seasons. After struggling to produce on some very bad Colorado Avalanche teams from 2014 to 2017, the Nova Scotian center’s hard work and training paid off as he carried a still very bad Avalanche
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