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• Friday Feels: Power play struggles - bad luck or big trouble?

Ron Chenoy-Imagn Images The Avs power play has not been good for a bit - why?? Coming off a loss to Utah last night in which the Colorado Avalanche’s power play went goalless on three tries, there’s a lot of frustration in the fanbase about the man advantage. With Nathan MacKinnon, Mikko Rantanen, and Cale Makar on the unit, it shouldn’t be possible for it to struggle, right? Wrong. Power...2024
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs. New Jersey Devils (5:00 p.m.)

Photo by Rich Graessle/NHLI via Getty Images It’s a Colorado Avalanche game day! The Colorado Avalanche continues its road trip out East with a Sunday night matchup against the New Jersey Devils. It will be the team’s third game in four days on the trip, really testing the limits and travel at hand. After an off-year last year, the Devils are right on track to be in the playoff picture th...2024
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• Preview: Dancing with the Devils

Photo by Rich Graessle/NHLI via Getty Images The Avs are right back in action with its third game in four days. The Colorado Avalanche continues its road trip out East with a Sunday night matchup against the New Jersey Devils. It will be the team’s third game in four days on the trip, really testing the limits and travel at hand. After an off-year last year, the Devils are right on track ...2024
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• Nichushkin, Georgiev lead Avalanche to 2-1 win over slumping Red Wings

DETROIT (AP) — Valeri Nichushkin scored his third goal in two games, Alexandar Georgiev made 28 saves and the Colorado Avalanche beat the slumping Detroit Red Wings 2-1 on Saturday night....2024
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs. Detroit Red Wings (5:00 p.m.)

Photo by Dave Reginek/NHLI via Getty Images It’s a Colorado Avalanche game day! Finally, the Colorado Avalanche gets some good injury news before its matchup tonight against the Detroit Red Wings. Ross Colton will make his return after his hot start to the season. The old rivalry will be renewed yet again in this road matchup. Can the Avs find success in the middle game of this five-game ...2024
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• Preview: Ross Colton returns for renewed rivalry with Red Wings

Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images The Avs get a much-needed boost in the top six. Finally, the Colorado Avalanche gets some good injury news before its matchup tonight against the Detroit Red Wings. Ross Colton will make his return after his hot start to the season. The old rivalry will be renewed yet again in this road matchup. Can the Avs find success in the middle game of this five-...2024
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• Friday Feels: Power play struggles - bad luck or big trouble?
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs. Detroit Red Wings (5:00 p.m.)
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• Preview: Ross Colton returns for renewed rivalry with Red Wings
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• Recap: Hurricanes punish Avs early, stave off rally for 5-3 win

James Guillory-Imagn Images The Hurricanes outshot the Avs 28-12 in the first two periods and that set the tone for most of the game. The Carolina Hurricanes attacked the Colorado Avalanche early and often. That dictated most of the action Thursday at Lenovo Center. The Hurricanes dominated possession time en route to a 5-3 victory in Scott Wedgewood’s first start for the Avalanche. Unlik...2024
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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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• Insider Reports Avalanche’s Landeskog Has no Timeline to Return From Injury
Heading into the 2024-25 NHL season, the Colorado Avalanche knew they’d be missing key players. Jonathan Drouin, Artturi Lehkonen and Logan O’Connor were coming off offseason surgery, and Valeri Nichushkin…...2024
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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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• Recap: Avalanche desperately hang on for win against Flyers

Photo by Mitchell Leff/Getty Images It wasn’t pretty in the end, but two points is two points. They just did enough. The Colorado Avalanche opened up its four-game road trip out East with a 3-2 win over the Philadelphia Flyers on Monday night. It was a little too close for comfort after having a 3-0 lead, but the Avs just did enough to hold off the hard-charging home team. Colorado now mo...2024
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• Preview: The Avalanche are back at it against the Oilers

Photo by Andy Devlin/NHLI via Getty Images The Avalanche will play their second of a back-to-back in Edmonton against the Oilers. The Avalanche aren’t logging any vacation hours this weekend as they get set for their second contest in as many nights, this time against the Edmonton Oilers. The Avalanche fell to the Dallas Stars last night by a score of 5-3. Can they bounce back against the ...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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• Avalanche fade fast in third vs. Flyers for 6-3 loss
Photo by Len Redkoles/NHLI via Getty Images Well that was disappointing. The Colorado Avalanche came into their first game after the All Star Break fresh from a bye week and riding a three-game win streak from prior to their playing hiatus. The Philadelphia Flyers, in comparison, played and lost against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Friday night before facing the Avalanche at the tail end of a bac...2020
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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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"First Period Things started tumultuously as Valeri Nichushkin had his stick slashed in half and no call was given."

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"We can rule out trading core pieces like Gabriel Landeskog, Nathan Mackinnon, Mikko Raantanen, Valeri Nichushkin, Cale Makar and Devon Toews."

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"Colorado Avalanche forward Valeri Nichushkin has been given until Nov."

2020
"Valeri Nichushkin wasn't able to live up to the hype during his time in Dallas, but a late-summer signing by the Colorado Avalanche may have been enough to save the Russian's winger's NHL career."

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"Valeri Nichushkin delivered his second game-winning goal of the season."

2018
"When Valeri Nichushkin broke into the NHL straight out of the 2013 draft, he made his mark with 14 goals and 34 points in 79 games, giving the Dallas Stars…"

2016
"DALLAS - Valeri Nichushkin had a goal and an assist on his 21st birthday, and the Dallas Stars stopped a four-game slide with a 4-2 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Friday night."

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"If the Stars are in the mix, Nill said he plans to stand pat and treat the pending returns from injury of Valeri Nichushkin and Patrik Nemeth as the team’s deadline improvements."

2014
"Dallas Stars forward Valeri Nichushkin will have hip surgery next week and is expected to miss four months, the team announced Saturday."

• Friday Feels: Power play struggles - bad luck or big trouble?
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• Analyzing the Avalanche rookies early into the season

Photo by Jonathan Kozub/NHLI via Getty Images Who will stick when regulars make their return? The youth movement for the Colorado Avalanche has been strong. Full of new guys with fresh looks and potential, most have made some impact. While it has been fun to watch, the likes of Jonathan Drouin, Miles Wood, and Valeri Nichushkin are coming back as soon as Friday. Their imminent returns mea...2024
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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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• Recap: Avalanche hold off Senators to win fifth consecutive game

Photo by Michael Martin/NHLI via Getty Images Casey Mittelstadt stays hot with another multi-point effort. The Colorado Avalanche defeated the Ottawa Senators by a final score of 5-4 in a late offensive explosion. The game was pretty tight for the majority of the contest until things opened up in a big way in the final frame. The win marks Colorado’s fifth consecutive win after an 0-4-0 st...2024
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• Cal Ritchie decision coming soon

Photo by Michael Martin/NHLI via Getty Images What will the Avalanche do with its new rookie? Colorado Avalanche forward Cal Ritchie was the talk of the town all offseason. He went into rookie camp in July unsigned and was miles better than anyone else in attendance. He finally signed his ELC days after camp, and seemingly stuck around Denver all summer, skating and working hard to be a pa...2024
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• An Avalanche of injuries, 2024-25 edition

John A. Babiak The season is four games old and the injury ward is already filling up for the Avs. The season is only four games old, and the injury list is already much longer than anticipated for the Colorado Avalanche. Some faces from the start of the season remain the same, but some new ones have entered the fray as well. This was a series two years ago I’d hoped wouldn't make a comeb...2024
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• MHH Roundtable: Let the games begin!

Photo by Matthew Pearce/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The roster is set, now we are ready for puck drop on the 2024-25 Colorado Avalanche season. With the Colorado Avalanche season kick-off just around the corner and the setting of their initial roster, here are our final thoughts just before the puck drops on the 2024-25 season. Note: we are continuing the assumption that both Nikola...2024
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• Avalanche trade Erik Brannstrom to Canucks for Tucker Poolman

Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post Brannstrom signed with Colorado on July 2nd Colorado Avalanche General Manager Chris MacFarland continues to be hard at work prior to puck drop on the NHL season. The club announced today that they have traded Defenseman Erik Brannstrom to the Vancouver Canucks, in exchange for Defenseman Tucker Poolman, and a 2025 4th round pick. We have acquire...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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• Friday Feels: Power play struggles - bad luck or big trouble?
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• Preview: Ross Colton returns for renewed rivalry with Red Wings
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• Recap: Hurricanes punish Avs early, stave off rally for 5-3 win
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• Recap: Valeri Nichushkin carries team in Colorado win over Vegas
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• Nichushkin scores only goal in shootout, Avs beat Golden Knights, 2-1

DENVER (AP) — Valeri Nichushkin scored the only goal in a five-round shootout and also scored Colorado's only goal in regulation as the Avalanche beat the Vegas Golden Knights 2-1 on Wednesday night....2024
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• Recap: Avalanche desperately hang on for win against Flyers
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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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• Analyzing the Avalanche rookies early into the season
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• Recap: Valeri Nichushkin carries team in Colorado win over Vegas
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• Recap: Avalanche desperately hang on for win against Flyers
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• Analyzing the Avalanche rookies early into the season
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• Recap: Avalanche hold off Senators to win fifth consecutive game
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• An Avalanche of injuries, 2024-25 edition
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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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• Avalanche trade Erik Brannstrom to Canucks for Tucker Poolman
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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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• Nichushkin opens up on Seattle incident, leaves more questions than answers

Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports Valeri Nichushkin claims his absence from the 2023 Western Conference Quaterfinals was injury-related, contradicting comments made by head coach Jared Bednar Before failing a drug test in May and getting suspended for six months, Colorado Avalanche forward Valeri Nichushkin opened up in an exclusive interview with Russian YouTuber Mikhail Cherkasov regarding a m...2024
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• Nichushkin scores on 21st birthday, Stars beat Devils 4-2
DALLAS - Valeri Nichushkin had a goal and an assist on his 21st birthday, and the Dallas Stars stopped a four-game slide with a 4-2 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Friday night. Vernon Fiddler, Jason Spezza and Colton Sceviour also scor......2016
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• Avs' Nichushkin enters player assistance program

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• Nichushkin isn’t the player he was projected to be, but he’s finding his groove in Avs’ bottom six
Valeri Nichushkin wasn't able to live up to the hype during his time in Dallas, but a late-summer signing by the Colorado Avalanche may have been enough to save the Russian's winger's NHL career. The post Nichushkin isn’t the player he was projected to be, but he’s finding his groove in Avs’ bottom six appeared first on TheHockeyNews....2020
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• Recap: Wild take down Avalanche in controversial and rough affair
Photo by Michael Martin/NHLI via Getty Images It was not a good game for the Avs and the stripes. Ugh. That’s all that needs to be said about this one. With a chance to go to the top of the Central Division for the first time since November, the Colorado Avalanche laid down and suffered a 4-2 loss to the hands of their bitter rivals, the Minnesota Wild. In what was a subpar performance, th...2023
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• Woman found in Avalanche's Valeri Nichushkin hotel room in Seattle had to be transported to the hospital

Nichushkin has disappeared from the Avalanche's playoff series against the Kraken...2023
• Red Wings’ Massive Mirco Mueller Trade Tree Grows Larger with Deadline Deals
Heading into the 2013 NHL Draft, the Detroit Red Wings reportedly had their sights set on selecting Valeri Nichushkin in the first round. Unfortunately, the Russian winger was snapped up…...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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• IIHF drops doping case against Avs' Nichushkin

A years-old doping case against Colorado Avalanche forward Valeri Nichushkin has been dropped by the IIHF, the Russian Hockey Federation said....2022
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs. New Jersey Devils (5:00 p.m.)
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs. Detroit Red Wings (5:00 p.m.)
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• Preview: Ross Colton returns for renewed rivalry with Red Wings
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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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• Preview: Colorado looks to bounce back against Philly

Photo by Len Redkoles/NHLI via Getty Images After getting some of the band back together from injuries, Colorado sets out on a four-game road trip. After completing a four-game homestand, the Colorado Avalanche head out east to kick off a four-game road trip and take on the Philadelphia Flyers, this will be the first of two regular-season matchups between these teams this season. When ...2024
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• Nichushkin opens up on Seattle incident, leaves more questions than answers
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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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• Weekly Grades: Road Winnin’ Edition

Photo by Andy Devlin/NHLI via Getty Images The Avs took two Ws on the road this week - but were they any good? We’re back with the Colorado Avalanche weekly report card! This week Colorado extended its winning streak to seven games with two more road wins over the Edmonton Oilers and St. Louis Blues. But were they any good? THE GAMES Saturday @ Edmonton: 3-2 WTuesday @ St. Louis: 4-2 W PL...2024
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• Nichushkin’s Return Could Be a Turning Point for the Avalanche
With all the rumors and speculation around the NHL Trade Deadline, some good news has come early for the Colorado Avalanche. Valeri Nichushkin has been cleared to resume practicing with…...2024
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• Avalanche add veteran Zach Parise on one year deal

Photo by Mike Stobe/NHLI via Getty Images Parise appeared in all 82 games for the New York Islanders last season. Can you call this the first “big” move of the 2024 NHL Trade Deadline? After a couple of days of excitement and speculation following a report from longtime Minnesota Wild reporter, Michael Russo, the Colorado Avalanche announced on Friday that they would be signing veteran Le...2024
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• Valeri Nichushkin enters Player Assistance Program

Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images Nichushkin becomes the second player this season on the Avalanche team to enter the program. Monday afternoon saw the Colorado Avalanche and NHLPA announce Valeri Nichushkin had entered the Player Assistance Program. It comes after rumors swirled earlier in the day before being confirmed this afternoon. He remains out indefinitely while receiving care...2024
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• An updated Avalanche of injuries
Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports Trying our best to see the length of time players will be out for. One step forward, two steps back. Such is the motto for the Colorado Avalanche this season. Ever since the puck dropped for Opening Night back against the Chicago Blackhawks, the Avs have not had a healthy lineup. As is commonplace now, let’s go over our most recent injury updates and predicted r...2022
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• The Avalanche’s seven-goal outburst over the two-time defending champs isn’t the headline
Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports In this instance, zero is bigger than seven, as crazy as that sounds. ...2022
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