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• Colorado Eagles grounded for the summer

Colorado Eagles A tough series went the way of Abbotsford ending Colorado’s season. It was a successful year for the Colorado Eagles which ended in familiar fashion as they failed to advance out of the Pacific Division yet again. A tight best-of-five game series with the Abbotsford Canucks went all the way to Game 5 but a 6-0 shutout on home ice wasn’t the note the squad wanted to end on....2025
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• Morning Flurries: Ilya Nabokov signs with Colorado

Photo by Maksim Konstantinov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images But the netminder is not likely on the fast track to the Avalanche lineup. As the first sign of life in what portends to be a busy offseason, the Colorado Avalanche announced they have signed top prospect goaltender Ilya Nabokov to a two-year Entry Level Contract beginning in the 2025-26 season. The term of two years is...2025
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• MHH Roundtable: Attacking the Offseason

Photo by Andy Devlin/NHLI via Getty Images Transactions to shape the 2025-26 roster will happen soon. Now a month into the early summer, it’s time turn the page from the disappointments of the 2024-25 season and begin plans for the 2025-26 campaign, which will be here before we know it. Therefore here are our thoughts on how the Colorado Avalanche front office should proceed this summer. ...2025
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• Colorado Avalanche 2024-25 Player Report Card: Valeri Nichushkin
The Colorado Avalanche may have experienced their most challenging season since Cale Makar arrived in Denver. Seemingly half the lineup was missing at various points this season, making it difficult…...2025
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• Opinion: It’s time to move on from 2C

Nazem Kadri can’t be replaced. The ship has sailed. There will be no “legitimate” second line center (2C) joining the Colorado Avalanche anytime soon. It’s time to accept it and move on to a different strategy. This doesn’t mean stop attempting to improve the roster but the obsessive focus on finding a player to fulfill an ideal role without the resources to obtain it has led to multiple failure...2025
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• Colorado Avalanche 2024-25 Player Report Card: Martin Necas
The Colorado Avalanche began the 2024-25 season with arguably the worst goaltending situation in the NHL and ended with yet another playoff elimination at the hands of the Dallas Stars.…...2025
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• 2024-2025 Colorado Avalanche Grades: Defenseman

Photo by Michael Martin/NHLI via Getty Images Taking a look at the regular season performances of all the Colorado Avalanche defenseman. In honor of finals week wrapping up at my university a couple of weeks ago, I wanted to look back at the individual performances of each Colorado Avalanche player and “grade” their regular season performances, starting with the defenseman. For the sake o...2025
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• NHL 25: Oilers shut out Dallas 1-0 in classic defensive showcase

Photo by Leila Devlin/Getty Images With a win, the Oilers will take a 2-1 series lead with more home cooking en route. A defensive masterpiece. The Edmonton Oilers will win Game 3 of the Western Conference Final this afternoon against the Dallas Stars per NHL 25. The reigning Stanley Cup Final runner-ups defeated the Stars 1-0 on the simulation. Connor McDavid had one goal and an assist, ...2025
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• Breaking down the upcoming Drouin decision

Photo by Melissa Tamez/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Has Jonathan Drouin played his last game in Colorado? Over the next month the Colorado Avalanche have a lot of decisions to make regarding their upcoming unrestricted free agents. One player in particular might shape the dynamic of the offseason ahead and that’s in the case of left winger Jonathan Drouin. It was a great signing for t...2025
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• Recap: Oilers shutout Stars 3-0 to even series

Photo by Sam Hodde/Getty Images There was no comeback story in this one as the Dallas Stars offense fell on deaf ears. Tonight, the comeback kids took a nap. The Edmonton Oilers tied their best-of-seven Western Conference Final series at one game apiece against the Dallas Stars Friday night, shutting out the home team 3-0 at American Airlines Center. The game played out very similar to Gam...2025
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• Winnipeg Jets: Playoff Post-Mortem – Pt 2
A couple of days ago, donning the guise of Dr. BigOl’JetAirliner I published the first part of my look at the Winnipeg Jets’ playoff run in the 2024-25 National Hockey League season with the goal of identifying the causes for our club’s early exit. In Part One of the post-mortem, I looked back at the history of the Atlanta Thrasher-Winnipeg Jets’ franchise before diving...2025
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• Friday Question: Which athlete do you hate the most?

Time to be a big old bunch of haters. In a perfect world there’d be no hate. I don’t know if John Lennon said that, or Elmo from Sesame Street. Obviously we all should aspire to hate less and love more, but when it comes to sports that’s not an option. Naturally there are athletes we just grow to hate with a red-hot passion. People who get our blood boiling every single time they set food on the f...2025
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• NHL Rumors: Colorado Avalanche, Washington Capitals, and the Montreal Canadiens

Jared Bednar, and if only the Avs could take a mulligan. The Montreal Canadiens will need some penalty kill help and find that No. 2 center....2025
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• NHL Rumors: Colorado Avalanche, Washington Capitals, and the Montreal Canadiens

Jared Bednar, and if only the Avs could take a mulligan. The Montreal Canadiens will need some penalty kill help and find that No. 2 center....2025
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• Morning Flurries: Ray Bennett is gone

Photo by Andy Lewis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images One change is set in motion for next season. The Colorado Avalanche found their scapegoat as it was revealed at the start of the Chris MacFarland and Joe Sakic press conference that assistant coach Ray Bennett was let go. No discussion on who or what they are looking for in a replacement behind the bench nor a timeline for replacement. ...2025
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• Opinion: Rantanen trade blew up in our faces, fire Bednar and MacFarland

Isaiah J. Downing-Imagn Images It’s just a business after all, right? This organization needs a fresh start, and it starts by breaking a few hearts. It starts with GM Chris MacFarland. When he makes the right moves on the battlefield, MacFarland comes off as a genius, but like most of your friends were while playing Call of Duty Zombies, the quick trigger finger would come back to bite th...2025
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• Yo Adrienne’s Travel Guide: Round one in Dallas, TX

Adrienne Ruth Superfan and creative Adrienne, a.k.a. @guffychan, has advice for Avs fans who will visit Dallas in round one! The Colorado Avalanche are playoff-bound for a 7th consecutive season! To celebrate, we contacted the owner and operator of Murder On Ice Design Co., Adrienne Ruth, who is a hockey, art, and travel mystro best known for her creation of the infamous "too-many-men" gra...2025
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• Recap: Avalanche can’t get out of early hole, fall 5-4 to rival St. Louis

Photo by Joe Puetz/NHLI via Getty Images Mistakes and turnovers put Colorado in a 4-0 hole, but despite a valiant effort, it was too much in the end. The mistakes were too much to overcome. The Colorado Avalanche got into a deep hole early on and ultimately fell to the St. Louis Blues 5-4 Saturday evening at Enterprise Center despite putting up a valiant effort late in the game. Ross Col...2025
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• How to enjoy the Mile High City while in town for March Madness

Photo by: Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Denver will host first and second round games of the men’s 2025 NCAA tournament. March Madness is soooo close, and if your team is lucky enough to be sent to Ball Arena in Denver for the first and second rounds of the 2025 NCAA tournament, then you absolutely must go. And if you don’t have a favorite team but you...2025
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• Preview: Avalanche look to ramp it up as NHL returns from Four Nations break

Photo by John Russell/NHLI via Getty Images The Avs return to action to visit the division rival Nashville Predators. After the remarkable success of the Four Nations Faceoff, which captivated the sports world in North America for the last 10 days, the National Hockey League is back in action Saturday, with 14 games occurring across the league. The Colorado Avalanche return to play with s...2025
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• Deadline Moves by Past Cup Champs
Before I switch my attention to the upcoming 4 Nations Face-Off, I decided to tackle some questions that have been bothering me for a while. Based on the comments I read on hockey blogs, in PuckPedia’s GM mode, and even in articles by the professional experts in the media…your team MUST add players at the deadline if they really want to win the Stanley Cup. And a lot of them typically ...2025
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• Altitude & Comcast Agree: Avs and Nuggets are finally back on Xfinity

Photo by Michael Martin/NHLI via Getty Images This is a massive victory for the fans of the Colorado Avalanche and Denver Nuggets! Today, Kroenke/Altitude Sports made an announcement. It is one that many local fans of both the Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche have long since waited for. The stalemate between Altitude and Comcast has come to an end, meaning that all Altitude programmin...2025
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"For the first time in over 3 years, the Colorado Avalanche will have their captain, Gabe Landeskog, on the ice with them."

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"Colorado Avalanche forward Valeri Nichushkin has entered the NHL/NHLPA player assistance program and will be away from the team for an indefinite amount of time."

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"Every other expansion team (so we’re not counting relocated teams like the Colorado Avalanche) needed at least three seasons during that span to qualify for postseason play."

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"Longtime Boston Bruins defenseman and Hockey Hall of Famer Bobby Orr welcomed Colorado Avalanche star Cale Makar to an exclusive club."

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"Photo by Michael Martin/NHLI via Getty Images The Colorado Avalanche forward retires after 566 games in the NHL Colorado Avalanche forward Matt Calvert has announced his retirement from the NHL after 10 seasons and 566 games."

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"Baseball Hall of Famer Larry Walker to serve as emergency backup goalie for Colorado Avalanche"

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"While some fans of the Colorado Avalanche don’t believe trading for Hall is something the team should do, general manager Joe Sakic very much disagrees - and he doesn’t want to wait until the trade deadline."

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"Colorado Avalanche beat New York Rangers for ninth consecutive win"

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"The New Jersey Devils won the NHL draft lottery, vaulting four teams including the last-place Colorado Avalanche and expansion Vegas Golden Knights for the right to the first pick in the draft "

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"DENVER - The Colorado Avalanche have signed forward Nathan MacKinnon to a seven-year deal that runs through the 2022-23 season."

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"Regehr, a 15-year league veteran, was originally drafted by the Colorado Avalanche 19th-overall."

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"VIDEO: P.K. Subban schools the Colorado Avalanche"

• Colorado Eagles grounded for the summer
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• Morning Flurries: Ilya Nabokov signs with Colorado
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• MHH Roundtable: Attacking the Offseason
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• Opinion: It’s time to move on from 2C
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• 2024-2025 Colorado Avalanche Grades: Defenseman
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• Breaking down the upcoming Drouin decision
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• Canada eliminated by Denmark in stunning upset at World Championship

Photo by EyesWideOpen/Getty Images It was Denmark’s second victory over Canada in history. A sequel to the Miracle on Ice has been penciled in for 2025. Nick Olesen scored with 49 seconds left in the game to help Denmark deliver one of the most monumental upsets in hockey history when they defeated Canada 2-1 in the quarterfinals of the 2025 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship. A win for ...2025
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• Winnipeg Jets: Playoff Post-Mortem – Pt 2
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• Checking in on the Colorado Avalanche’s 2024 NHL Draft Class
With the 2025 NHL Entry Draft just over a month away, here’s a look at the 2024 Colorado Avalanche draft class and how they did in their first season after…...2025
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• Colorado Eagles grounded for the summer
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• MHH Roundtable: Attacking the Offseason
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• Colorado Avalanche 2024-25 Player Report Card: Valeri Nichushkin
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• Opinion: It’s time to move on from 2C
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• 2024-2025 Colorado Avalanche Grades: Defenseman
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• Who Plays For Them?

I had a funny conversation today with a colleague who works in Montreal. He was passing on his condolences for the Jets being eliminated, and I happened to mention that there's still a ton of professional hockey being played within a stone's throw of him. He knew of the Laval Rocket and their battle against Rochester as that was apparently on the news, but he had no clue that the Lions de Trois‑Ri...2025
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• Breaking down the upcoming Drouin decision
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• Canada eliminated by Denmark in stunning upset at World Championship
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• Friday Rockpile: More people can watch the Rockies today. Will they? Should they?

Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports Colorado Rockies news and links for Friday, May 23, 2025 The good news is the Rockies game will be free to watch today for people living in the Denver metro and surrounding areas of Colorado. The bad news is the Rockies are 8-42 and are playing the New York Yankees, who are 30-19. Friday’s game marks the first of 10 in a new partnership between the Rockies and T...2025
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• Winnipeg Jets: Playoff Post-Mortem – Pt 2
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• 2024-2025 Colorado Avalanche Grades: Defenseman
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• Recap: Oilers shutout Stars 3-0 to even series
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• Friday Rockpile: More people can watch the Rockies today. Will they? Should they?
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• Rd2 Gm6 Preview: Winnipeg @ Dallas
The Winnipeg Jets will be hoping to copy their Canadian counterparts today after watching the Toronto Maple Leafs pick up a road win against the Florida Panthers to force a Game 7 in their series. The True Northers need to do the same thing tonight against the Dallas Stars if they hope to extend their playoffs, something made all the more difficult due to the fact that the Jets have yet to pick up...2025
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• MacKinnon puts up three points, Canada burns Austria 5-1

Photo by Ben Jackson/4NFO/World Cup of Hockey via Getty Images Canada started the game down 1-0 despite 23 shots on goal in the first period. Nathan MacKinnon was the star of the show. Team Canada improved to 4-0 in the IIHF World Championship Thursday with a 5-1 victory over Austria. The Canadians outshot Austria 52-16, showing just how impressive Austrian netminder Florian Vorauer was in...2025
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• MHH Roundtable: Reactions to another early exit

Photo by Andy Cross/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images Picking up the pieces after yet another Game 7 loss. After a stunning loss in Game 7 to the Dallas Stars, it’s an abrupt end to the season for the Colorado Avalanche. We will have a whole offseason to dissect what went wrong and where the team goes from here but these are our initial reactions. Who was your round one M...2025
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• Opinion: Rantanen trade blew up in our faces, fire Bednar and MacFarland
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• Recap: Rantanen scores hat-trick, Avs implode in 4-2 disaster as Stars advance

Jerome Miron-Imagn Images That didn’t go well. The Colorado Avalanche needed to be perfect for 13 minutes away from advancing to the 2nd round of the playoffs. That was until an old friend turned out the lights. Mikko Rantanen had his second four-point period in the series, scoring a hat-trick and an assist on the go-ahead goal to cap off one of the biggest implosions in Colorado franchis...2025
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• MacKinnon signs 7-year deal with Avalanche
DENVER - The Colorado Avalanche have signed forward Nathan MacKinnon to a seven-year deal that runs through the 2022-23 season. The 20-year-old MacKinnon had 21 goals and 31 assists last season. He missed the last 10 games after he sprained a......2016
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• Avalanche busy in free agency Friday, sign Colborne, Tyutin
DENVER - The Colorado Avalanche were busy in free agency Friday, signing a crop of players that includes forward Joe Colborne. The 26-year-old Colborne agreed to a two-year deal as he leaves Calgary after a season in which he set a career hig......2016
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• AP Source: Avalanche place Brad Stuart on waivers
A person with direct knowledge of the decision has confirmed to The Associated Press that the Colorado Avalanche have placed veteran defenceman Brad Stuart on waivers with the intention of buying out the final year of his contract. The person......2016
• Rangers acquire defenceman Nick Holden from Avalanche
NEW YORK, N.Y. - The New York Rangers have acquired defenceman Nick Holden from the Colorado Avalanche for a fourth-round pick in the 2017 draft. The 29-year-old Holden had six goals and 16 assists and 24 penalty minutes this past season. ......2016
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• Avalanche acquire Grimaldi from Panthers for Berra
DENVER - The Colorado Avalanche added another forward by picking up Rocco Grimaldi from the Florida Panthers for goaltender Reto Berra. The 23-year-old Grimaldi scored three goals and had two assists in 20 games for the Panthers last season. ......2016
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• Wings enjoy boos, then cheers
DENVER -- If only the fans at Coors Field knew how much Darren McCarty enjoyed their boos, they might have remained silent. For Colorado Avalanche fans, Red Wings McCarty, Kris Draper and Chris Chelios were -- and still are -- the enemy and wer......2016
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• Canada names final seven players for 2016 World Cup of Hockey roster
TORONTO - Canada's roster for the World Cup of Hockey was finalized Friday night with the addition of four forwards and three defencemen. Matt Duchene of the Colorado Avalanche, Brad Marchand of the Boston Bruins, Claude Giroux of the Philade......2016
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• Opinion: Rantanen trade blew up in our faces, fire Bednar and MacFarland
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• Can Simon Gagne Replace Jarome Iginla's Veteran Presence on the Boston Bruins?
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• Colorado Eagles grounded for the summer
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• Morning Flurries: Ilya Nabokov signs with Colorado
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• MHH Roundtable: Attacking the Offseason
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• Colorado Avalanche 2024-25 Player Report Card: Valeri Nichushkin
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• Opinion: It’s time to move on from 2C
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• Colorado Avalanche 2024-25 Player Report Card: Martin Necas
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• NHL 25: Oilers shut out Dallas 1-0 in classic defensive showcase
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• Breaking down the upcoming Drouin decision
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• Recap: Oilers shutout Stars 3-0 to even series
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• MacKinnon puts up three points, Canada burns Austria 5-1
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• Summer Concert Nights - Part One

With the warmer weather upon most of us in the Great White North, there will be a rise in the number of concerts that happen outdoors at various venues across Canada. I suspect that a number of you who stop by this blog will take in a performance or two when it comes to those summer concerts, so HBIC decided to save all its best performers in hockey jerseys for this occasion! Being that I'm not a ...2025
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• Avs blow third period lead again, lose in overtime as Dallas takes series lead

Isaiah J. Downing-Imagn Images 6 power plays with 0 conversions. The Colorado Avalanche are a mess. It’s been back-to-back overtime games, blown third-period leads, and tragic finishes for the Colorado Avalanche. There’s no way around it. This was as bad as it gets. Despite the Avalanche beginning the overtime period with 3:21 left on the power play, they failed to convert, as they did all...2025
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• Playoff Gm1 Recap: Blues @ Jets
The long wait is finally over…..the National Hockey League Playoffs kicked off with the league leading Winnipeg Jets taking on the St. Louis Blues in the opening round on Saturday evening. A contest featuring the #1 ranked Jets squaring off against the #8 ranked Blues would give one of these franchises the opportunity to pick up the first victory of the NHL 2024-25 post-season. The fans i...2025
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs Toronto Maple Leafs (5:00 p.m.)

Photo by Mark Blinch/NHLI via Getty Images It’s a Colorado Avalanche gameday! Following a strong performance in an emotional overtime victory over Mikko Rantanen and the Dallas Stars Sunday afternoon, the Colorado Avalanche will embark on their final Eastern Conference road trip of the season, which will take them through Eastern Canada. The Avs will face the Maple Leafs in Toronto to star...2025
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• Preview: Avs look to keep rolling into Ontario as road trip begins against Maple Leafs

Photo by Andrew Lahodynskyj/NHLI via Getty Images The Avs enter this trip with a nine-game point streak. Following a strong performance in an emotional overtime victory over Mikko Rantanen and the Dallas Stars Sunday afternoon, the Colorado Avalanche will embark on their final Eastern Conference road trip of the season, which will take them through Eastern Canada. The Avs will face the Map...2025
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• MHH Roundtable: Hopes and fears for what lies ahead

John A. Babiak Unpacking where the Avalanche stand after all their moves. After concluding what some might consider a shocking and franchise-altering trade deadline, especially in concert with other moves made this season, we unpack where the Colorado Avalanche stand heading into the final 16 games of the regular season. What move did you like the best? Adrian: I liked the addition of Mart...2025
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• Open Thread: Trade Deadline Frenzy

Photo by Michael Martin/NHLI via Getty Images Who will make the biggest deal or the worst deal? Trade deals line day finally here as the day of many dreams and fantasies, will any come true? What will be the biggest — or dumbest — trade made in the NHL today? How many members of the Colorado Avalanche be on the move in their quest to dress 50 players this season? Let us remind of the form...2025
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