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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs. New York Rangers (7:00 p.m.)

Photo by Michael Martin/NHLI via Getty Images It’s a Colorado Avalanche gameday! After losing to the Jets last weekend, the Colorado Avalanche will search for the victory column again. At the same time, the Rangers hope to get a third consecutive victory—a sentence sort of flies in the face of each team’s success (or lack thereof) this season. The Rangers have notoriously struggled and und...2025
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• Preview: Rangers rollercoaster twist into Ball Arena to face the Avs

Photo by Ashley Potts/NHLI via Getty Images Can the Rangers beat the Avs and string three wins together for just the third time this season? After losing to the Jets last weekend, the Colorado Avalanche will search for the victory column again. At the same time, the Rangers hope to get a third consecutive victory—a sentence sort of flies in the face of each team's success (or lack thereof)...2025
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs. Chicago Blackhawks (5:30 p.m.)

Photo by Tyler Schank/Getty Images It’s Colorado Avalanche gameday! The Avalanche start a back-to-back situation with the Chicago Blackhawks tonight at the United Center in Chicago, IL. The Avalanche are climbing the standings as they stack points, having secured at least one in their last eight contests. It's the year of the debut, as Trent Miner will get the starters net tonight against ...2025
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• Preview: Trent Miner and the Avalanche breeze into The Windy City

Photo by Michael Martin/NHLI via Getty Images Can Colorado extend their league-leading point streak to nine games with Trent Miner between the pipes? The Avalanche start a back-to-back situation with the Chicago Blackhawks tonight at the United Center in Chicago, IL. The Avalanche are climbing the standings as they stack points, having secured at least one in their last eight contests. It'...2025
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs. Florida Panthers (7:00 p.m.)

Photo by Michael Martin/NHLI via Getty Images It’s a Colorado Avalanche gameday! Before this season, the Avalanche hadn’t won in Sunrise, FL, in quite some time but did so in late November by a score of 7-4. That victory featured a team scoring its way out of a goalie nightmare. That nightmare has ended, and the Avalanche will look to expand on their win over the Panthers in a snowy downto...2025
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• Preview: The Avalanche welcome former champs and feline foe

Photo by Michael Martin/NHLI via Getty Images Can the Avalanche win and sweep the season series against the defending champs? Before this season, the Avalanche hadn’t won in Sunrise, FL, in quite some time but did so in late November by a score of 7-4. That victory featured a team scoring its way out of a goalie nightmare. That nightmare has ended, and the Avalanche will look to expand on ...2025
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs. New York Rangers (7:00 p.m.)
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs. Buffalo Sabres (7:00 p.m.)

Photo by Bill Wippert/NHLI via Getty Images It’s another Colorado Avalanche game day! It was a busy morning for the Colorado Avalanche with a Gabe Landeskog signifying at morning skate and an extension for depth defenseman Keaton Middleton announced. Still, there is a game to play tonight against the Buffalo Sabres. The Avalanche look to extend their five-game win streak and the Sabres hop...2025
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• Preview: Swords drawn in rematch with the Buffalo Sabres

Photo by Bill Wippert/NHLI via Getty Images Can the Avalanche make it six in a row? It was a busy morning for the Colorado Avalanche with a Gabe Landeskog signifying at morning skate and an extension for depth defenseman Keaton Middleton announced. Still, there is a game to play tonight against the Buffalo Sabres. The Avalanche look to extend their five-game win streak and the Sabres hopi...2025
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• Recap: Avalanche contain Sharks in 4-2 win

Photo by Eakin Howard/Getty Images Joel Kiviranta was the game’s MVP. Those who were rooting against Alexandar Georgiev got their wish. Heading into one last busy stretch before the holiday break, the Colorado Avalanche continued on their road trip to visit the some old friends and the San Jose Sharks. The visitors got the better of their former goaltender in a third period come back in th...2024
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• Recap: Rantanen hat trick fuels 6-2 win in Pittsburgh

Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images The Colorado Avalanche head home 4-1 on their east coast swing. At last, the final game of this five-game road trip was a meeting with the Pittsburgh Penguins. After sweeping their weekend back-to-back the Colorado Avalanche were hoping to end their sojourn on a high note with another win. And that just happened as the stars shone bright in this 6-2 Avalanche...2024
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• Recap: Alexandar Georgiev slams the door in Avs 2-1 win over Red Wings

Brian Bradshaw Sevald-Imagn Images Just about in the end thanks to a brilliant goaltending performance. The Colorado Avalanche traveled to Detroit to face off against their long-time rivals, the Red Wings, after a tough loss in Carolina. The Avalanche desperately needed to win to stay above .500 and the Red Wings were looking to kick a four-game skid. Recap The Avs’ constant struggle to s...2024
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• Avalanche can’t pull off late game heroics in 5-3 loss to Dallas

Photo by Glenn James/NHLI via Getty Images The third period comeback was fun while it lasted. The Colorado Avalanche went to Dallas over Thanksgiving and on Black Friday hoped to shop for a W in the two teams’ first regular-season matchup since their playoff series last postseason. A third period comeback eventually led to a 5-3 defeat as the Avalanche will hope for a better result tomorro...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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• Five under the radar targets for the Colorado Avalanche to consider this offseason
Photo by Norm Hall/NHLI via Getty Images Should Sakic look to make a run at any of these five players? With the Stanley Cup Finals coming to a close, hockey fans will begin to shift their focus to the next phases of the NHL’s yearly cycle; the NHL Draft, and Free Agency. With both events getting ready to kick off next week, NHL general managers will get ready to help push their rosters in the d...2020
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"Colorado Avalanche With Val Nichushkin out of the lineup with a day-to-day lower body injury presumably Casey Mittelstadt moves back to the second line from the fourth line to face his former team."

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"We had exclusive footage of Val Nichushkin and Jonathan Drouin skating at the Family Sports Center while the team was away on business."

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"Val Nichushkin and Evan Rodrigues will travel with the #Avs to Vancouver and Edmonton, but Jared Bednar is unsure whether they’ll play."

2022
"And it wasn’t long before the next score as Val Nichushkin took over the puck and drove the net just minutes later and then Nathan MacKinnon found the loose change at 10:58 to go up 2-0."

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"With Gabriel Landeskog suspended and Val Nichushkin now injured “week-to-week”, Colorado will be playing without half of their top-6 forwards."

2020
"They have one of the best players in the game, the presumed Calder Trophy favorite and a cast of new faces - Andre Burakovesky, Nazem Kadri, Joonas Donskoi, Val Nichushkin and P-E Bellemare - who have given the Avalanche the type of depth that most teams can only dream of."

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"From Sean Tierney (@ChartingHockey) He’s not one of the biggest reasons the Avalanche are winning games, but Val Nichushkin has been playing a big role in the success the team is having."

• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs. New York Rangers (7:00 p.m.)
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• Recap: Rantanen hat trick fuels 6-2 win in Pittsburgh
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs. Tampa Bay Lightning (5:00 p.m.)

Ron Chenoy-Imagn Images It’s a Colorado Avalanche game day! Alright, the Colorado Avalanche have (almost) everyone back and seem to have turned the page on their early-season struggles. With a victory tonight over the Lightning (and a Dallas loss), Colorado will be tied for third place in the division and extend their winning streak to four games. Tampa is coming in on a cold streak, losin...2024
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• Preview: Road warrior Avs have one more test in Tampa

Photo by Tyler Schank/Clarkson Creative/Getty Images Can the Avalanche win their fourth straight road game? Alright, the Avalanche have (almost) everyone back and seem to have turned the page on their early-season struggles. With a victory tonight over the Lightning (and a Dallas loss), Colorado will be tied for third place in the division and extend their winning streak to four games. Tam...2024
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• Opinion: Malinski, Kovalenko & Ivan ease the prospect pain in Colorado

Isaiah J. Downing-Imagn Images All three camp hopefuls appear to be affordable and serviceable NHLers. It was no secret heading into this season that the Avalanche would be a little bit without to kick things off. Having roughly 20M dollars worth of players on the mend and not on the ice, it was all anyone could talk about, significantly when the Avalanche dropped their first four games. W...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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• 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 Announce Training Camp Roster

Photo by Michael Martin/NHLI via Getty Images Colorado announces their training camp roster on the eve of training camp. As we are less than one day away from Colorado’s training camp commencing, we finally got a look at the official training camp roster comprised of 55 players vying for a spot on the 2024-25 Colorado Avalanche. Ready to hit the ice tomorrow.#GoAvsGo pic.twitter.com/JSK...2024
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• Breaking down Calum Ritchie’s options

Photo by Dennis Pajot/Getty Images NHL, junior or both? One of the most anticipated storylines in next month’s Colorado Avalanche training camp will be concerning top prospect Calum Ritchie’s chances of landing a spot on the NHL squad. After inking his Entry Level Contract in July the possibility has become at least realistic with a nod of commitment from the organization. NHL The simples...2024
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs. Chicago Blackhawks (5:30 p.m.)
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs. Florida Panthers (7:00 p.m.)
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• Preview: The Avalanche welcome former champs and feline foe
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• Preview: Swords drawn in rematch with the Buffalo Sabres
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• Recap: Rantanen hat trick fuels 6-2 win in Pittsburgh
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• Recap: Alexandar Georgiev slams the door in Avs 2-1 win over Red Wings
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• Avalanche can’t pull off late game heroics in 5-3 loss to Dallas
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• Recap: Valeri Nichushkin carries team in Colorado win over Vegas

Isaiah J. Downing-Imagn Images He is making a statement to those who doubted him. Valindicated. The Colorado Avalanche and the Las Vegas Golden Knights gave each other all they had Wednesday night at Ball Arena. At the end of regulation, that same energy carried over into overtime and even the shootout, which verged into epic category, until Valeri Nichushkin scored the lone goal in the fi...2024
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs. Tampa Bay Lightning (5:00 p.m.)
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• Recap: Avalanche contain Sharks in 4-2 win
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• Avalanche can’t pull off late game heroics in 5-3 loss to Dallas
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• Recap: Valeri Nichushkin carries team in Colorado win over Vegas
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• Opinion: Malinski, Kovalenko & Ivan ease the prospect pain in Colorado
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• Lab #77: Win Now Mode

The latest Mile High Hockey Lab episode is available, and Jackie earned a ding. What’s new? The 77th installment of the Mile High Hockey Lab is available on your preferred Podcast platform! Don't forget to download our new episode and give us a follow! This episode was hosted by Adrian Hernandez and joined by Jackie Kay, Ezra Parter, and Brennan Vogt. The Colorado Avalanche have come screaming ba...2024
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• Updates on Landeskog, Nichushkin, and more at media day

Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images Training camp starts today, and there were plenty of updates from Jared Bednar to start the year. The Colorado Avalanche held its annual media day yesterday, hearing from Jared Bednar and star players on the team for the first time in this new 2024-25 NHL season. With lots of questions surrounding the team as the season gets underway, it was interesti...2024
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• MHH Roundtable: 2024-25 Bold Predictions

Photo by Andy Devlin/NHLI via Getty Images Find out how right -- or wrong -- we will be! Before the 2024-25 Colorado Avalanche training camp and season begins, we are putting our favorite segment from our Mile High Hockey Lab podcast on paper — Bold Predictions! What are you predicting for any Avalanche player in particular? Evan: It feels crazy to predict this, but with the animal he was...2024
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• Morning Flurries: Cal Ritchie signs contract with Colorado

Photo by Brian Babineau/NHLI via Getty Images Your daily dose of Avalanche news, along with other interesting storylines across the NHL. The wait is finally over as the Colorado Avalanche have signed their top prospect Calum Ritchie to a three-year Entry Level Contract. Ritchie had a phenomenal 2023-24 season where he scored 80 points in 50 games and led his team to the OHL finals. A rewar...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 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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• Val Nichushkin is taking advantage of his second chance in the NHL
Brian Fluharty-USA TODAY Sports When the Colorado Avalanche signed Val Nichuskin to a one year contract at the end of August, most expected him to be nothing more than training camp filler that was destined for the AHL Eagles. After all, he hadn’t scored a goal in the NHL since March 4th, 2016. The Avalanche were a team with a number of new faces and a glut of bottom-6 capable forwards, so the...2019
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• The Colorado Avalanche have turned from lovable underdogs to legitimate Stanley Cup contenders
Photo by Bruce Kluckhohn/NHLI via Getty Images A winning streak has the Avalanche within striking distance of the top seed in the west Starting on December 16th, the Colorado Avalanche had only four regulation wins over the next month. The team that had looked like the best in the Western Conference for the first two months of the season, had fallen out of the top-3 in the Central Division and ...2020
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• Colorado Avalanche lose Nazem Kadri out “weeks, not days”
Photo by Andre Ringuette/NHLI via Getty Images Injury leaves Kadri out of the lineup indefinitely The Colorado Avalanche got some bad news Tuesday morning as head coach Jared Bednar told Altitude Sports Radio that center Nazem Kadri is out indefinitely and that the team is expecting him to be out of the lineup for “weeks, not days”. “Kadri is out indefinitely... lower-body injury... weeks, not...2020
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• Weekend Flurries: Avalanche win again and Taylor Hall speculation runs rampant
Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports Where is Taylor Hall going to be traded? Last night got pretty wacky in a hurry. Shortly before the Colorado Avalanche were set to take on Taylor Hall and the New Jersey Devils, only to have Hall was pulled from the lineup for “precautionary reasons” just before game time. Obviously, speculation ran wild as to whether or not he was on the verge of being traded. The s...2019
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• Recap: Meyers scores first NHL goal as Avalanche rout Hurricanes 7-4
Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images With the win the Avalanche clinch the Central Division and Western Conference As the home stand continued the Colorado Avalanche welcomed the Carolina Hurricanes hoping to avenge their only shutout loss of the season back in Raleigh. The scoring started early en route to a spirited, physical and sometimes wacky yet decisive 7-4 win for the Avalanche. ...2022
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• More injury updates for the Colorado Avalanche
Photo by André Ringuette/NHLI via Getty Images Some good, some bad, but still same ol’ injuries. Tuesday’s practice revealed plenty more about the injuries the Colorado Avalanche currently faces. After Monday night’s agonizing 3-2 defeat to the Vegas Golden Knights, we learned more about players and their status. One of them is Evan Rodrigues, who was a late scratch and didn’t play Monday ...2023
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• Twitter Tuesday: To re-sign, to trade or to not; Bowen Byram and goaltenders
Photo by Michael Martin/NHLI via Getty Images Is Tyson Jost or Colin Wilson worthy of staying? And here’s why Bowen Byram can’t play in the AHL The new decade has ushered in a new year of Colorado Avalanche hockey, and with it, more questions. After starting the year with a commanding statement 7-3 win over the Central Division-leading and defending Stanley Cup-having St. Louis Blues, and follo...2020
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• Colorado Avalanche Game Day: Yes, it’s actually a game day!
Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports Nathan MacKinnon and the boys are back Finally. It’s been 11 long days since we last saw the Colorado Avalanche on the ice. After the All star break and a bye week, the Avs will be back in game action tonight as the travel to Philadelphia to take on the Flyers. Despite these two teams being separated by only one point, they come into this game in very different posi...2020
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• Colorado Avalanche Game Day: Familiar faces in new places
John E. Sokolowski-USA TODAY Sports Tyson Barrie and Alex Kerfoot visit as members of the Toronto Maple Leafs Tonight’s game at the Pepsi Center isn’t an ordinary one. As if being Hockey Fights Cancer night wasn’t big enough, this game marks the first time the Colorado Avalanche and Toronto Maple Leafs will face off since connecting on a blockbuster trade this past offseason. Tyson Barrie and...2019
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs. Chicago Blackhawks (5:30 p.m.)
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs. Florida Panthers (7:00 p.m.)
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs. Buffalo Sabres (7:00 p.m.)
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• Recap: Avalanche contain Sharks in 4-2 win
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• Recap: Alexandar Georgiev slams the door in Avs 2-1 win over Red Wings
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• Avalanche can’t pull off late game heroics in 5-3 loss to Dallas
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• Breaking down Calum Ritchie’s options
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• MHH Roundtable: The Long Goodbye
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• Weekly Grades: MacKinnon Nichushkin Domination Edition

Photo by Bruce Kluckhohn/NHLI via Getty Images The Avs went 2-2 this week. But were they any good? We’re back with the Colorado Avalanche weekly report card! This week Colorado couldn’t get their engines going against the Jets, swallowed the Sharks, got goalied in Chicago, and rode a career night from Nathan MacKinnon to victory over the Senators. But were they any good? THE GAMES Satur...2023
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• Recap: Avs get Mrazek’d in Chicago

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Colorado couldn’t find an even strength goal and lost despite excellent special teams play. The Colorado Avalanche found a new way to lose tonight, absolutely dominating the first and third periods and both sides of special teams only to let a couple of nifty plays from Connor Bedard in the first and a couple of nitpicky penalties in the third sink the...2023
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• Weekly Grades: The Finnish Dad Edition

Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images Mikko Rantanen (or Ismo Lehkonen?) powered the Avalanche to a 2-1-0 week. We’re back with the Colorado Avalanche weekly report card! This week Colorado couldn’t solve Philadelphia, came back in the third to extinguish the Flames, and ran a Mack truck through the Buffalo Sabres. But were they any good? THE GAMES Saturday vs Philadelphia: 5-2 LMonday ...2023
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• Recap: Avs give up two at the buzzer to lose a heartbreaker in Nashville

Photo by Danny Murphy/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Just when it looked like the Avs would sneak out with two points, disaster struck, and they leave Nashville with zero The Colorado Avalanche hoped to extend their winning streak to four games against the Nashville Predators on Monday night, and just when it looked like that would happen...it didn’t. The game had some positive takeaways...2023
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