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• Recap: Avalanche outmuscle Sharks, win 4-1 for second straight

Robert Edwards-Imagn Images The Colorado Avalanche are back in the win column again as they continue to shine after rough start. Ross Colton scored twice, Justus Annunen made 25 saves in his first start of the season and the Colorado Avalanche kept the San Jose Sharks winless in a 4-1 drubbing Sunday night at SAP Center. Colton now has five goals in his last three games to kick off his hot...2024
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs. San Jose Sharks (6:00 p.m. MT)

Photo by Michael Martin/NHLI via Getty Images Can Colorado continue their winning ways? After finally breaking through and earning their first win of the season against the Anaheim Ducks, the Colorado Avalanche head out for a little three-game west coast road trip. Today marks the first of those three games against the winless San Jose Sharks. Sunday hockey in San Jose. : @AltitudeTV :...2024
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• Preview: Colorado looks to keep their winning ways alive against San Jose

Photo by Michael Martin/NHLI via Getty Images Can the Avalanche continue to build upon their last game against the Sharks? After finally breaking through and earning their first win of the season against the Anaheim Ducks, the Colorado Avalanche head out for a little three-game west coast road trip. Today marks the first of those three games against the winless San Jose Sharks. Sunday ...2024
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• Preview: Colorado looks to keep their winning ways alive against San Jose

Photo by Michael Martin/NHLI via Getty Images Can the Avalanche continue to build upon their last game against the Sharks? After finally breaking through and earning their first win of the season against the Anaheim Ducks, the Colorado Avalanche head out for a little three-game west coast road trip. Today marks the first of those three games against the winless San Jose Sharks. Sunday ...2024
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• NHL Rumors: Mikko Rantanen And Pittsburgh Goaltending

Mikko Rantanen is set to get paid by the Colorado Avalanche but how much? Does he get more than Nathan MacKinnon? We take a look!...2024
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• NHL Rumors: Mikko Rantanen And Pittsburgh Goaltending

Mikko Rantanen is set to get paid by the Colorado Avalanche but how much? Does he get more than Nathan MacKinnon? We take a look!...2024
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• Recap: Avalanche outmuscle Sharks, win 4-1 for second straight
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• Preview: Struggling Avalanche welcome the Ducks to Denver

Isaiah J. Downing-Imagn Images Can Colorado finally put it all together and get a win? The Colorado Avalanche continue to chase that ever-elusive first win of the season, as they welcome the Anaheim Ducks to Denver tonight. This will be the first of three matchups between these two teams this season, and wrap up Colorado’s current homestand. Friday night hockey in Ball Arena, with the A...2024
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• Recap: Avs crumble to Islanders for third straight loss

Photo by Michael Martin/NHLI via Getty Images Self-inflicted wounds and lack of firepower are slowing down the Avalanche. The Colorado Avalanche lost its third straight game to open the 2024-25 campaign, this time at the hands of the New York Islanders 6-2. Things are just not going Colorado’s way at the moment, and it’s glaring. For the first time since the 2008-09 season, the Avs have st...2024
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• Preview: The Avalanche hope to rebound against Patty Roy and the Islanders

Christopher Hanewinckel-Imagn Images Colorado looks to avoid going 0-3 to start the 2024-25 campaign. Things have gotten off to a rocky start in Colorado, with the Avalanche dropping their first two regular-season contests. The same is true for their opponent this evening, the New York Islanders. Fans at Ball Arena hope to see Colorado's first regular season win after a frustrating loss to...2024
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• Recap: Columbus outlasts Colorado in home-opener

Photo by Tyler Schank/Clarkson Creative/Getty Images Another double-digit duel didn’t go in the Avalanche’s favor. The Colorado Avalanche opened up its season at Ball Arena with another loss, this time by the score of 6-4 at the hands of the Columbus Blue Jackets Saturday night. It’s the second loss to open the year for the Avs, and the first time they’ve started 0-2 since the 2014-15 seas...2024
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• Preview: Saturday night hockey is back in Denver

Photo by Michael Martin/NHLI via Getty Images For the first time this season, Colorado plays at Ball Arena. The Colorado Avalanche open their season at Ball Arena tonight against the Columbus Blue Jackets. It will give fans the opportunity to see new faces in burgundy and blue for the first time with their own eyes, alongside some new faces. We will also see the team likely pay tribute to...2024
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• Recap: Avalanche drop opening game in Vegas 8-4

Lucas Peltier-Imagn Images A Mikko Rantanen hat trick was spoiled by a lot of dumb play. The long wait is finally over as the Colorado Avalanche dropped the puck for the 2024-25 at the home of the Vegas Golden Knights. Both teams are looking to get back to Stanley Cup glory after faltering in the postseason last spring. After a slow first period both team erupted for goals but Vegas got t...2024
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs. Vegas Golden Knights (8:00 p.m.)

Stephen R. Sylvanie-Imagn Images It’s a Colorado Avalanche gameday! Well, Avalanche fans, the day has finally come! We get to watch Colorado Avalanche hockey tonight as the 2024-25 regular season starts in Vegas against the Golden Knights. How will young guys like Cal Ritchie, Nikolai Kovalenko, Ivan Ivan, and Sam Malinksi fair instead of Colorado’s missing talent? Will Vegas hand out some...2024
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• Weekly Grades: Extended Vacation Edition

Photo by Josh Lavallee/NHLI via Getty Images The Avs piled up the Ls this week. But were they actually good? (Hint: no) We’re back from the All-Star Break with the Colorado Avalanche weekly report card! This week Colorado couldn’t solve Jonathan Quick and the New York Rangers, failed a comeback bid in New Jersey, and fell to the Carolina Hurricanes. But were they any good? THE GAMES Mond...2024
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• MHH Roundtable: Will MacKinnon win the Hart Trophy?

Photo by Mark Blinch/NHLI via Getty Images At the break we take stock of where the Colorado Avalanche stand. After 49 games and a record of 32-14-3, which is good for the top spot in the Central Division, the Colorado Avalanche are in a great position for the stretch run portion of the season. This nine-day break gives everyone a chance to pause and reflect before things get very busy agai...2024
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• Weekly Grades: Guest Edition!

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Colorado Avalanche won two tough games this week but were they any good? With the weekly grades specialist Erza on vacation I will do my best to depict the week that was as your guest evaluator. We saw the Colorado Avalanche go 2-1-0 in their last home stand before the start of a long road trip, which began with a disappointing ...2024
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• Mikko Rantanen provides a not-so-serious update on the contract status of Nazem Kadri
Photo by Dave Sandford/NHLI via Getty Images Moose seems like he knows something no one else does. The Colorado Avalanche has been in full party mode since winning the Stanley Cup a week ago. From the parade on Thursday to partying at various nightclubs every night with the Cup since then, we’ve seen a different side of Avs players as of late. It’s crazy what can happen to a team after win...2022
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• Avalanche Comeback Yet Again in Donskoi and Grubauer Return to Ball Arena
Photo by Michael Martin/NHLI via Getty Images Avalanche win 4-3 in Kraken’s first game in Colorado Today the Seattle Kraken travelled to the Mile High City for their first ever game at Ball Arena. Two familiar faces returned for their first game against the Colorado Avalanche in front of the Avs faithful since going to the Kraken this offseason, Joonas Donskoi and Philip Grubauer. Recap: ...2022
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• Forgotten Phenom Nathan MacKinnon Trying to Regain Golden-Boy Status
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs. Boston Bruins (7:30 p.m.)

Isaiah J. Downing-Imagn Images It’s a Colorado Avalanche game day! The Colorado Avalanche will host the visiting Boston Bruins tonight in what awkwardly feels like a must-win for the Avalanche, who haven’t won a game three games into the new season. That might feel like an exaggeration, as we’ve seen some of the best Avalanche teams go on three-game slides. Boston arrives after a 4-3 defea...2024
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• Preview: The desperate Avs welcome the Boston Bruins

Bob DeChiara-Imagn Images Will the Avalanche start 0-4 for the first time since 98-99? The Colorado Avalanche will host the visiting Boston Bruins tonight in what awkwardly feels like a must-win for the Avalanche, who haven't won a game three games into the new season. That might feel like an exaggeration, as we've seen some of the best Avalanche teams go on three-game slides. Boston arriv...2024
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• Preview: Saturday night hockey is back in Denver
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs. Vegas Golden Knights (8:00 p.m.)
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• Preview: The Colorado Avalanche start a new season in Vegas

Stephen R. Sylvanie-Imagn Images We made it Avalanche fans. Hockey season is upon us! Well, Avalanche fans, the day has finally come! We get to watch Colorado Avalanche hockey tonight as the 2024-25 regular season starts in Vegas against the Golden Knights. How will young guys like Cal Ritchie, Nikolai Kovalenko, Ivan Ivan, and Sam Malinksi fair instead of Colorado’s missing talent? Will V...2024
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• Avalanche 24/25 Season Preview: Goalies

Photo by Matthew Pearce/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images A look into the Avs netminders for this upcoming season. With the season opener just one sleep away, it’s time to look at the goaltenders for the Colorado Avalanche and Colorado Eagles for the 2024-25 season. The organization is in a much different place in the crease than it was on opening night a year ago. With Pavel Francouz retir...2024
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• Avalanche 24-25 Season Preview: Forwards

Photo by Michael Martin/NHLI via Getty Images Looking at the Avs’ forward lines heading into the season. With the preseason behind us, the Colorado Avalanche ended 1-5 without too many regulars in any games. But the season opener is right around the corner on Wednesday night against the Vegas Golden Knights. We will see plenty of regulars in the side who missed out on the postseason. But, ...2024
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• 2024-25 Avalanche Season Preview: Central Division

Photo by Tyler Schank/Clarkson Creative/Getty Images Taking a deep-dive into Colorado’s Central Division matchups. The Central Division has the potential to be an intriguing one this year. As is always the case, the Colorado Avalanche will see every single team in the Central Division multiple times this year, some of which have made pretty big changes to their respective rosters. Take a l...2024
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• Preseason Recap: Avalanche fall 6-1 to Vegas and trim 10 from the roster

Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post Now there are 30 hopefuls for Avalanche opening night. For preseason game number four the Colorado Avalanche beefed up their roster a bit more than the bare bones offerings of the past week. It was the preseason debut for Avalanche stars Nathan MacKinnon, Mikko Rantanen and Cale Makar hoping to show a little bit more pizazz in front of the home cro...2024
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• Little Retires As A Jet

Rare are the players who spend an entire career with one team, let alone one franchise any longer. There will be some from this era who will wear that honour - Sidney Crosby, Nathan MacKinnon, and Connor McDavid all seem like locks - but finding guys further down the depth charts who fit that rare situation becomes harder and harder. Bryan Little technically fits the bill despite the Jets trading ...2024
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• Recap: Colorado finally breaks through against Anaheim

Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images The Colorado Avalanche finally get their first win of the season! Well, that only took a couple of minutes. After playing 15 periods of hockey in total across five games, and almost an entire overtime period as well, the Colorado Avalanche finally got their first win of the 2024-25 season, beating the Anaheim Ducks by a final score of 4-3. Let’s break...2024
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• MacKinnon scores in OT to lift Avalanche past Ducks 4-3 for 1st win

DENVER (AP) — Nathan MacKinnon scored with 40.1 seconds left on the clock in overtime and the Colorado Avalanche beat the Anaheim Ducks 4-3 on Friday night for their first win of the season....2024
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs. Boston Bruins (7:30 p.m.)
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• Recap: Avs crumble to Islanders for third straight loss
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• Preview: The Avalanche hope to rebound against Patty Roy and the Islanders
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• 2024-25 Avalanche Season Preview: Central Division
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• Preseason Recap: Avs secure first win of preseason in Vegas

Photo by David Becker/NHLI via Getty Images What happens in Vegas, doesn’t stay in Vegas - a W! Hang the banner! The Colorado Avalanche have won a preseason game! All jokes aside, the Avs contained the pressure from the Vegas Golden Knights to wrap up a 3-1 win on the strip on Thursday night. It’s the first one of the preseason, with one more to go before the real deal begins. The roster ...2024
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• Recap: Colorado finally breaks through against Anaheim
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• Preview: Struggling Avalanche welcome the Ducks to Denver
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs. Boston Bruins (7:30 p.m.)
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• Recap: Avs crumble to Islanders for third straight loss
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• Recap: Columbus outlasts Colorado in home-opener
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• Recap: Avalanche drop opening game in Vegas 8-4
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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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• VIDEO: Nathan MacKinnon drops nasty shootout move on Petr Mrazek
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• Reports: Avs give MacKinnon $100.8M extension

Nathan MacKinnon has signed an eight-year extension with the Avalanche, the team announced Tuesday. MacKinnon's AAV of $12.6 million surpasses that of Connor McDavid, according to multiple reports....2022
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• Why Nathan MacKinnon is the best hockey player in the world
With elite skills, strength and a determination to keep improving, the Avalanche center has a strong case....2020
• Crosby, MacKinnon give Worlds checks to hometown
Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins and Nathan MacKinnon of the Colorado Avalanche have donated their shares from winning the 2015 IIHF World Championship to the youth hockey organization in Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia. With an assist from M......2015
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• How Nathan MacKinnon molded the Avalanche into Stanley Cup champions

After years of postseason disappointment, Colorado is on top thanks to the culture created by its young star....2022
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• Ryan Graves has found a home with the Colorado Avalanche
Photo by David Kirouac/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The NHL’s leader in +/- offers many contributions for the Avalanche One of the more interesting storylines outside of Cale Makar’s rookie brilliance and Valeri Nichuskin’s resurgence is the emergence of Ryan Graves as a staple on the blue line for the Colorado Avalanche. The tale of how Graves arrived in Colorado is well-known. Brought ...2020
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• Morning Flurries: Two more Avalanche selected to the All-Star game

Photo by Ashley Potts/NHLI via Getty Images Cale Makar and Alexandar Georgiev will be returning to Toronto in a few weeks. The remaining 2024 All-Star selections were revealed and to the surprise of no one Cale Makar was named to his third consecutive All-Star game. The Colorado Avalanche teammate joining him and the previously announced Nathan MacKinnon is Alexandar Georgiev. This is the...2024
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• Avs pivot Nathan MacKinnon will carry daily hockey teams
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• Recap: Avalanche outmuscle Sharks, win 4-1 for second straight
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs. Anaheim Ducks (7:00 p.m.)

Isaiah J. Downing-Imagn Images Can Colorado capture that ever elusive first win? The Colorado Avalanche continue to chase that ever-elusive first win of the season, as they welcome the Anaheim Ducks to Denver tonight. This will be the first of three matchups between these two teams this season, and wrap up Colorado’s current four-game homestand. Will Anaheim leave Ball Arena two games over...2024
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs. Boston Bruins (7:30 p.m.)
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• Recap: Avs crumble to Islanders for third straight loss
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• Preview: The Avalanche hope to rebound against Patty Roy and the Islanders
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• Preview: Saturday night hockey is back in Denver
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• Morning Flurries: First Goal Energy

Photo by Jeff Bottari/NHLI via Getty Images Your daily dose of Avalanche news, along with other interesting storylines across the NHL. To pass the time until the next Avalanche game, have a listen to the reigning MVP Nathan MacKinnon’s latest interview with Spittin’ Chicklets. As always there’s a healthy amount of golf talk among other conversation about teammates in this relaxed interview...2024
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• Recap: Avalanche outmuscle Sharks, win 4-1 for second straight
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• Colorado’s Carriage Crisis Continues

Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports Will fans in Colorado have to endure another year of blackouts/carriage disputes? The next NHL and NBA seasons are just two months away, and KSE/AltitudeTV and Comcast Xfinity still have yet to come to an agreement that would allow all fans and cable providers access to live game broadcasts. Should the standoff persist, this will mark the sixth season for Avalan...2024
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• Lost in the Avalanche: Where are the champions?

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images Just how much of the 2022 Stanley Cup champion Colorado Avalanche has changed? Time moves fast and with it the changing complexion of the NHL keeps evolving. While the Colorado Avalanche still have Stanley Cup aspirations they’ll have to accomplish a repeat this era with fewer and fewer familiar faces on the squad. Too soon to check-in on where the ...2024
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• MHH 2024 Mock Draft

Photo by Kyle Harris/NHLI via Getty Images Who will the Avalanche select at 24? What better way to pass the time to the 2024 NHL Draft than a mock draft? Get to know the likely first-round candidates plus a few options for the Colorado Avalanche at pick 24. The festivities kick off on June 28th in Las Vegas. We will be live at The Sphere to bring all the details! Bonus: Check out our picks...2024
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• MHH Roundtable: The Long Goodbye

Photo by Ashley Potts/NHLI via Getty Images The staff shares thoughts on Colorado’s second round playoff exit. Before a summer of uncertainty can unfold, we must put the 2023-24 Colorado Avalanche season to rest. After getting eliminated in six games in a tough second-round meeting with the Dallas Stars here are our thoughts as we reflect on what transpired. After getting knocked out in ...2024
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• The Cost Of Addiction

I don't think anyone would deny that Valeri Nichushkin was having himself a heckuva postseason. After terrorizing the Jets for five games, it seemed the big Russian winger was set to give his former team, the Dallas Stars, nightmares as well. With Colorado trailing 2-1 in the series, they needed all their best players to step up, but Valeri Nichushkin was, instead, forced to step away by the NHL a...2024
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• The roller coaster train ride of Valeri Nichushkin

Photo by Ashley Potts/NHLI via Getty Images The implication, reactions, and facts surrounding the latest news surfacing about the Russian forward. Managing Editor’s Note: I am going to do the best I can to get the correct information and reaction around a very sensitive topic surrounding Valeri Nichushkin. If I get anything wrong, I sincerely apologize and will correct my mistake as soon a...2024
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• Preview: The Avs are hoping to get the last laugh against Minny

Photo by Bruce Kluckhohn/NHLI via Getty Images The Wild won’t make the playoffs but Colorado is still jockeying for playoff position. April Fools Day has since passed, but that hasn't stopped former teammates Brandon Duhaime and Marc-Andre Fleury from celebrating well into the month. It's all fun and games between games, but when Minnesota and Colorado square off tonight at Ball Arena, th...2024
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