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• Recap: Avalanche offense goes silent in loss to wounded Wild

Ron Chenoy-Imagn Images Mackenzie Blackwood was outstanding and Nathan MacKinnon had a brilliant goal, but it wasn’t enough to get the win. This time, the win went to the wounded warriors. The Minnesota Wild were missing Kirill Kaprisov and a few other key players on Monday against the Colorado Avalanche, but it didn’t matter. The Wild entered this matchup having lost four of their last f...2025
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• Preview: Avalanche offense looks to get back on track against Oilers

Photo by Michael Martin/NHLI via Getty Images MacKinnon and McDavid square off once again It’s a Colorado Avalanche gameday! The Avalanche are back in action tonight to square off against Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers. After a come from behind victory against the New York Rangers on Tuesday the Avs had clinched the result they were after, but were not happy with how they played -...2025
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs Edmonton Oilers (7:30 p.m. MT)

Photo by Michael Martin/NHLI via Getty Images It’s a Colorado Avalanche gameday! The Colorado Avalanche are back in action tonight to square off against Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers. After a come from behind victory against the New York Rangers on Tuesday, the Avs had clinched the result they were after but were not happy with how they played - with Head Coach Jared Bednar citin...2025
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche at Minnesota Wild (5:00 p.m. MT)

Photo by Jonathan Kozub/NHLI via Getty Images It’s a Colorado Avalanche gameday! After a letdown performance in Chicago on Wednesday, a dominant performance in the club’s 6-1 win over the Minnesota Wild Thursday got the Avs back on track with their ascent of the Central Division. Coming into tonight, the Avs still sit in 4th in the division but are hot on the tails of Dallas, Minnesota, an...2025
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• Preview: MacKinnon, Avalanche look for redemption in WPG against Hellebuyck, Jets

Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post Hellebuyck shutout the Avalanche in Winnipeg on Nov. 7. It’s an Avalanche game day! The Avs’ pursuit of the top of the Central Division continues tonight as the Avalanche visit Winnipeg to square off against Connor Hellebuyck and the Winnipeg Jets. This is the third matchup between the two clubs this season, in what should be the most intense matchup be...2025
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche at Minnesota Wild (6:00 p.m. MT)

Photo by Bruce Kluckhohn/NHLI via Getty Images It’s another Colorado Avalanche game day! With the eight-game point streak coming to a halt last night, the Colorado Avalanche have an opportunity to quickly rebound on the second night of a back-to-back with a win against one of the top teams in the NHL thus far this season. The Avs simply didn’t play well against the Blackhawks. Despite heav...2025
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• Preview: Avalanche offense looks to get back on track against Oilers
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche at Minnesota Wild (5:00 p.m. MT)
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• Preview: Avalanche hunting bounce back against wounded Wild

Photo by Bruce Kluckhohn/NHLI via Getty Images Avs get a chance to to rebound quickly after a souring defeat to the Blackhawks Wednesday. It’s another Avalanche game day! After dropping one in Chicago and losing a point streak in the process, the Avalanche are back in action tonight for a visit with the Minnesota Wild. The Wild have been one of the most consistent teams in the NHL this se...2025
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• Open Thread: Colorado at Dallas (7:00 p.m.)

Photo by Andy Cross/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images It’s an Avalanche game day! It’s an Avalanche game day! After the Colorado Avalanche were turned aside by the Dallas Stars in the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs last spring, the Avs and Stars will meet for the first time this season. With both teams coming into this contest with disastrous performances in the re...2024
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• Preview: Avalanche look to exact revenge on Dallas Stars

Photo by Matthew Pearce/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Avs see the Stars for the first time since last Spring It’s an Avalanche game day! After the Colorado Avalanche were turned aside by the Dallas Stars in the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs last spring, the Avs and Stars will meet for the first time this season. With both teams coming into this contest with disastrous pe...2024
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• Recap: Avalanche erupt for four-goal period in impressive win over Panthers

Photo by Joel Auerbach/Getty Images Mikko Rantanen led the way for the Avs with a four-point night. Let’s go streaking! The Colorado Avalanche defeated the defending Stanley Cup Champion Florida Panthers by a final score of 7-4 Saturday evening. Coming off of a grindy win in DC against the Washington Capitals, the Avs were looking to put together a more complete performance against a tough...2024
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche at Washington Capitals (5:00 p.m.)

Photo by Michael Martin/NHLI via Getty Images Can the Avalanche make it two in a row on this road trip? It was less than a week ago when the Colorado Avalanche celebrated the return of three regular forwards back into their lineup but was soundly beat by the Washington Capitals in a 5-2 loss. With a result like that, a quick rematch is ripe for some tasty revenge as the Avalanche hope to b...2024
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• Preview: Avalanche look to payback Capitals with a win in D.C.

John Babiak/SB Nation After a troubling loss in Denver, the Avalanche are ready for the rematch. It was less than a week ago when the Colorado Avalanche celebrated the return of three regular forwards back into their lineup but was soundly beat by the Washington Capitals in a 5-2 loss. With a result like that, a quick rematch is ripe for some tasty revenge as the Avalanche hope to build ...2024
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• Preview: Fortified Avalanche Welcome Capitals Tonight

Photo by Michael Martin/NHLI via Getty Images Val Nichushkin, and Jonathan Drouin, and Miles Wood, oh my! One final game at home commences tonight before the Colorado Avalanche embark on a road-heavy schedule for the rest of the calendar year. This contest will be the 12th game at Ball Arena thus far in the 2024-25 season and the Avalanche have used home ice to their advantage to stay afl...2024
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• I Stand With Girard

It might be time that we have a serious chat here on HBIC because the image to the left is how most people will want to remember Samuel Girard once his career comes to an end. However, it seems clear that Girard is struggling to find the good times in hockey right now as he released a statement today announcing that he was stepping away from the game to seek help for anxiety and depression with wh...2023
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"Projected Lineup: Jonathan Drouin (27) - Nathan MacKinnon (29) - Mikko Rantanen (96)Ross Colton (20) - Casey Mittelstadt (37) - Artturi Lehkonen (62)Joel Kiviranta (94) - Parker Kelly (17) - Logan O’Connor (25)Tye Felhaber (48) - Juuso Parssinen (16) - Jere Innala (22) Devon Toews (7) - Cale Makar (8)Samuel Girard (49) - Josh Manson (42)Keaton Middleton (67) - Sam Malinski (70) MacKenzie Blackwood (39) Minnesota Wild After opening the year as one of the NHL’s hottest teams, followed by a bit of a dip in December, the Wild have found their stride once again, having won their last four contests coming into tonight’s matchup."

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"Just to note Samuel Girard and Miles Wood have also participated in the informal skates."

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"Colorado defenseman Samuel Girard, 25, who had been away from the Avalanche for personal reasons and did not play in either of their past two games, has left the team so that he can receive care from the NHL/NHLPA Player Assistance Program."

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"Samuel Girard Girard is the most divisive player amongst the Avalanche fanbase, as his poor series against Vegas two years ago is the lens through which many Avs fans see him."

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"Samuel Girard will be taking Toews’ spot on the first pairing with Cale Makar and recently signed Jack Johnson will be filling in on the bottom line."

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"Playing the tough minutes in a shit down line with someone like Samuel Girard would create more freedom and better matchups for Cale Makar to excel."

2019
"Compher Defense Samuel Girard - Nikita Zadorov Mark Barberio - Ian Cole Ryan Graves - Calle Rosen Philadelphia Flyers The Flyers will be without one of their best players as Travis Konecny remains out of the lineup after he suffered a concussion last week."

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"DENVER (AP) The Colorado Avalanche will be without defenseman Samuel Girard for Game 3 against Nashville due to an upper-body injury."

2017
"Defenseman's injury forced Nashville into playing Samuel Girard and showcasing him to rest of league."

2016
"The Nashville Predators have signed defenseman Samuel Girard to a three-year, entry-level contract "

• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche at Minnesota Wild (5:00 p.m. MT)
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• Recap: Avalanche erupt for four-goal period in impressive win over Panthers
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• Preview: Avalanche aim to rebound against surging Hurricanes

Photo by Michael Martin/NHLI via Getty Images Colorado faces another team atop the NHL standings early on in the season Perhaps we get a weather omen today? After losing a hard-fought battle on Thursday evening in Winnipeg against the Jets, the Avalanche return to Ball Arena in a snowy downtown Denver to take on the Carolina Hurricanes. There was a lot to like in the latter half of Colora...2024
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• Avalanche offseason focused heavily on stacking defense

Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports The Colorado Avalanche have a stacked blueline entering the 24-25 season and with the signing of Oliver Kylington, Colorado’s depth has received an extra boost. The Colorado Avalanche appear to be a defensive powerhouse entering the 2024-25 season. Earlier this week, Colorado announced they had signed 27-year-old defenseman Oliver Kylington to a one-year...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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• Preview: Avalanche look to keep streaking against Blue Jackets as long homestand begins

Photo by Rick Ulreich/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Colorado is on a seven-game win streak heading into this contest. Home, sweet home. After a lengthy road trip, the Avalanche are back home for the first time in 14 days for a visit with the Columbus Blue Jackets. Currently riding a seven game win streak that saw the Colorado Avalanche sweep a four-game road trip, the Avs are playing ...2024
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• Preview: Avalanche ready to roll against Wild after busy deadline week

Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports New day, new lineup. This is going to be fun. Is this the most anticipated game day of the regular season? I think yes. The Colorado Avalanche are back in action tonight, facing the Minnesota Wild. The Avs roster is going to look very different compared to Wednesday night, as they prepare to welcome four new Avs to the lineup: Center Casey Mittelstadt, Defensema...2024
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• 2023-24 Avalanche Position Preview: Defense

Photo by Ashley Potts/NHLI via Getty Images Powered by cover boy Cale Makar, the Avalanche boast one of the best bluelines in hockey. With the season just around the corner and the roster being finalized, it's time to review the 2023-24 Colorado Avalanche roster. This team aims to rebound after a rough Stanley Cup defense routed by injuries and inconsistency. Will new players be able to m...2023
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• Preview: Avalanche offense looks to get back on track against Oilers
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs Edmonton Oilers (7:30 p.m. MT)
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• Preview: MacKinnon, Avalanche look for redemption in WPG against Hellebuyck, Jets
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche at Minnesota Wild (6:00 p.m. MT)
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• Recap: Avalanche erupt for four-goal period in impressive win over Panthers
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche at Washington Capitals (5:00 p.m.)
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs. Washington Capitals (7:00 p.m. MT)

Photo by Jamie Schwaberow/Getty Images Can the squad make it four wins in a row with three returning players? One final game at home commences tonight before the Colorado Avalanche embark on a road-heavy schedule for the rest of the calendar year. This contest will be the 12th game at Ball Arena thus far in the 2024-25 season and the Avalanche have used home ice to their advantage to stay...2024
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• Preview: Fortified Avalanche Welcome Capitals Tonight
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• Morning Flurries: It’s Hockey Season

Photo by Michael Martin/NHLI via Getty Images Your daily dose of Avalanche news, along with other interesting storylines across the NHL. As the calendar flips to September and the Labor Day US holiday, there will be a hint of chill in the air which only means one thing, the hockey season is truly just around the corner. it will be a busy month with rookie camp, the Rookie Faceoff in Los An...2024
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• Preview: Avalanche look to keep streaking against Blue Jackets as long homestand begins
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• Recap: Avalanche can’t withstand the storm in 5-2 loss to Carolina

Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images A bad first period and power play was too much to overcome. In search of a win on this lengthy road trip the Colorado Avalanche made their latest stop at the home of the Carolina Hurricanes. That win did not materialize this evening as a first period Martin Necas hat trick put the Avalanche in a hole early in which six power plays couldn’t dig out of i...2024
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• Samuel Girard enters player assistance program

Photo by Andrew Lahodynskyj/NHLI via Getty Images The Colorado Avalanche defenseman will receive treatment away from the team. Rumors started swirling ever since Colorado Avalanche defenseman Samuel Girard missed Monday’s game in Nashville for what was described as personal reasons but the team never said anything beyond what Jared Bednar gave in his post game presser. Then a report from ...2023
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• Recap: Disastrous night crumbles Colorado’s chances

Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images Where can we wash our eyes out after watching that game? After the heartbreaking loss, the Colorado Avalanche suffered at the hands of the St. Louis Blues the Avalanche were looking to bounce back with a win. The team started the game hot but things didn’t go how they drew it up, at all. The Game Less than two minutes into the game the Blues got off t...2023
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• Morning Flurries: Colton’s arbitration date revealed
Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports Your daily dose of Avalanche news, along with other interesting stories from around the NHL. As the Colorado Avalanche and newly acquired Ross Colton inch closer on a contract for next season and beyond, there is now a deadline as the NHLPA has announced the date of his arbitration hearing will be July 27th. This gives the two parties another two weeks to get t...2023
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• Avs' Girard to enter program, cites 'alcohol abuse'

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• Sam Girard is the latest target of toxic fandom
Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images It’s Mile High Hockey Lab time, and we just released our 12th installment! Some Colorado Avalanche fans seem to have redirected their out-of-touchness to defenseman Samuel Girard as this season approaches the deadline. Many jumped to the defense of the small-framed 24-year-old when a still shot of the crowd surfaced showing an Avalanche fan donning a re...2023
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• Signing Nazem Kadri would cost the Colorado Avalanche a key contributor
Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports The Avalanche simply do not have enough cap space currently available to sign Kadri at fair market value. ...2022
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• Avalanche D Girard (sternum) out for postseason

Colorado defenseman Samuel Girard will miss the rest of the postseason with a broken sternum, Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said Saturday night after his team's 5-2 victory over the Blues in St. Louis, a win that gave the West's top seed a 2-1 series lead....2022
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• Nazem Kadri out until playoffs
Isaiah J. Downing-USA TODAY Sports The star center took a beating earlier this week. On Thursday night, Nazem Kadri took a hard cross-check to his chest area from Timo Meier. This sent him flying into the back-end of another San Jose Sharks player and the boards. He went down to the ice clutching his upper body/shoulder/arm area. It was certainly a concern but that concern wore off as he f...2022
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• Colorado Avalanche Game Day: Landeskog returns for night two against Coyotes
Isaiah J. Downing-USA TODAY Sports The Avalanche play the second of a back-to-back in Arizona. Tonight, the Colorado Avalanche will finish a back-to-back against the Arizona Coyotes in Arizona. Last night’s contest featured three lead changes and needed a shootout to determine the winner. Nazem Kadri was the only shooter able to net a goal in the shootout and captured the win for Colorado...2022
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• Taylor Hall or Alex Pietrangelo: Who would you rather have?
Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images Should the Colorado Avalanche pursue a high priced free agent this offseason? With all professional sports in a holding pattern, this summer is going to be very unique for the hockey world. The 2020 NHL draft has already been postponed and not even the league knows when it is going to be rescheduled. Eventually, we are going to see an NHL offseason. Whether it ...2020
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• Colorado Avalanche Game Day: Road trip continues in Boston
Photo by Steve Babineau/NHLI via Getty Images Colorado and Boston meet for the first time since Hall hit and MacKinnon injury. The Colorado Avalanche and Boston Bruins will face off in a matinee contest today at TD Garden in Boston Massachusetts. The Avalanche are fresh off a 5-3 victory over the Buffalo Sabres, and the Bruins just beat the Senators in overtime on Saturday. The Avalanche...2022
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• Open Thread: Colorado at Dallas (7:00 p.m.)
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• Preview: Avalanche look to stay hot on road against Panthers

Photo by Joel Auerbach/Getty Images Colorado looks to win its third straight game visiting the defending Cup champs. It’s an Avalanche game day! The Colorado Avalanche are back in action in Sunrise, Florida, where they’ll play visitor to the defending Stanley Cup Champion Florida Panthers. The Avs will look to officially begin a streak with a win this evening, as well as a 3-0-0 start to ...2024
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche at Washington Capitals (5:00 p.m.)
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• 5 reasons why the Avalanche won’t trade Samuel Girard
Photo by Jared Silber/NHLI via Getty Images Logical reasons put a stop to this line of thinking. There has been a lot of speculation and rumors over the last week but also stretching back to the beginning of the season that Samuel Girard is on his way out of Colorado. While he certainly isn’t untouchable, few truly are, there are several reasons why the Colorado Avalanche has been wise to...2022
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• The championship Avalanche was not a “rebuild”
Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images Patience and smart decisions were the hallmark of this championship team. In the aftermath of the Stanley Cup victory and celebrations is the impending draft and opening of free agency with 31 other organizations asking how they can accomplish the same feat as the Colorado Avalanche just did. Some teams have either won in recent years or feel they are c...2022
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• Nazem Kadri out until playoffs
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• Ranking the Last 10 Season of Colorado Avalanche Hockey Part 2: The Best
Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images In part one of my rankings of the last ten season of Avalanche hockey I looked at what I considered to be the bottom five. Now I will be looking at the top five seasons of Colorado Avalanche hockey (out of the last ten seasons) 5. The Worst of the Best - 2013-14 Season Finally, a winning season on this list. The 2013-14 season will be one of the most memo...2021
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• Colorado Avalanche Game Day: Layover in Los Angeles
March 9, 2020; Los Angeles, California, USA; Los Angeles Kings goaltender Jonathan Quick (32) blocks a shot against Colorado Avalanche right wing Joonas Donskoi (72) during the third period at Staples Center. Mandatory Credit: Gary A. Vasquez | Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports Avalanch head to LA looking to defeat the Kings The Avalanche: 1-1-0Los Angeles Kings: 0-0-2Puck drop: ...2021
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• Analyzing Drew Helleson’s future in the Colorado Avalanche organization
Photo by Codie McLachlan/Getty Images How does Helleson’s Avalanche future look? The 2021 World Junior Championship capped off with a thrilling Team USA vs Team Canada gold medal game Tuesday night, with team USA taking the 2-0 victory. For Avalanche fans, the tournament featured four promising young prospects, all of which made it to the gold medal game for their respective countries. For...2021
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• Avalanche become fourth team to eliminate opponent with second 7-1 victory over Arizona
Perry Nelson-USA TODAY Sports Three games into the Colorado Avalanche’s first round series, the Arizona Coyotes looked like they had signs of life following their pick-up of a 4-2 win. Those signs of life quickly fluttered out in their following two games, though, and the Avalanche made quick work of Arizona in a five-game series that capped off with a 7-1 win led by none other than Nazem Kadr...2020
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