Playing with house money. That’s a gambling phrase that means you’ve put yourself in a good enough position that you are playing with little, to no risk at all. The Colorado Avalanche were playing with house money on Saturday night when they wrapped up their three-game road trip against the Seattle Kraken at Climate Pledge Arena. After a two(ish) week…
Good afternoon! I absolutely love me some matinee hockey, and that was what we had today as the Colorado Avalanche welcomed in old rival, the Detroit Red Wings. It’s no secret that the rivalry is nowhere near what it used to be, especially on the ice. I remember the days where you could feel the tension in the crowd. There…
As far as game recaps from me go, this one should be pretty tidy. I’m going to try to keep it under 1,000 words for once and let everyone get into their holiday weekends (myself included!) as we are about to go multiple days without Avalanche hockey for the first time since November 27-28. Starting with the game in Winnipeg…
Morning skate yielded a couple of updates that would influence tonight’s lineup: Kurtis MacDermid would play, Val Nichushkin – though absent – would also play, Jacob MacDonald skated as a forward, and Martin Kaut was recalled by the Colorado Avalanche. As a result, you knew a classic blended Jared Bednar game was on tap. Additionally, a piece of Colorado’s depth…
All across the NHL, it’s been a wild year for streaks. The St. Louis Blues have both won and lost eight straight games already and the Boston Bruins won their first 14 home games and still haven’t lost in regulation. It’s just been a streaky year. The Colorado Avalanche have largely missed that boat, but coming off a four-game losing…
Colorado State needed a get right game on Sunday. After a couple of disappointing showings in local rivalry matchups, the Rams needed to get back on track before they ultimately go out on the road for a couple of challenging games to conclude the non-conference slate. CSU started slow against Peru State. After initially going down 9-2, the Rams trailed…
We know about the injuries. We know about the losing streak. We know the Colorado Avalanche are down bad right now. Valeri Nichushkin returned to the lineup tonight and gave the Avs a whopping two (!) of their top-six forwards going into the game against the New York Rangers. Somehow, it felt like that made all the difference. No doubt,…
I’m prone to hyperbole. I don’t know if that’s because I’m a writer, a millennial, or a former emo kid. All three have definitely contributed to the tendency, so I’ll often joke about hockey games and how “half the game” was played at 5v5 so the results are an unreliable narrator. Tonight, however, the Colorado Avalanche and Buffalo Sabres treated…
There was a sequence in tonight’s game with just under six minutes remaining in the third period that felt like a pretty good summation of the night on the whole. Nathan MacKinnon had made a nice play through the neutral zone to create space and maybe a scoring chance. As soon as he got into the offensive zone, he pulled…
Timing is everything in life, right? When Colorado’s game against Nashville yesterday was postponed due to the flooding of Bridgestone Arena, it opened the door for a scheduled victory for the Avalanche. For those unfamiliar, scheduled wins/losses are all about one team being rested playing a team on the second night of a back-to-back and travel being involved. While the…
Amazing what a little European vacation and a couple of games against one of the NHL’s worst teams can do for some confidence, eh? Following yesterday’s 6-3 victory, the Colorado Avalanche came back out in Game 2 of the NHL’s Global Series in Finland with a significantly more dominant effort in a 5-1 victory that somehow wasn’t even as close…
Okay. Let’s take a deep breath and let it all out. If doing that resulted in what your neighbors might have concluded was an existential scream, then you probably watched the same Colorado Avalanche game I did tonight. When a team that is struggling to find its footing early in the year (again) puts itself into position to win a…
I wondered how long into the season we would get before I found an excuse to talk about that “championship mettle” that will follow this Avalanche core around for the rest of their careers. Turns out, it was just six games. For the second time in those six games, the Avs had the pleasure of traveling on the second night…
Because it’s me and y’all know how I love digging up a number/stat and calling it a “fun fact” (sometimes they aren’t so fun), I decided to lead off my first postgame piece this season doing the same thing. So… Fun fact! Artturi Lehkonen has more games played in the postseason than regular season as a member of the Colorado…...
The journey is over. The Colorado Avalanche won the Stanley Cup last night with a hard-fought 2-1 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning. The win gave the Avalanche a 4-2 series victory over the two-time defending champion Lightning and ended their big for the NHL’s first “three-peat” since the 1980s New York Islanders won four in a row. It wasn’t…...
All the way back in Round 1, I was talking with a fellow media member and they mentioned how much they love dramatic Game 4s. It’s almost always a team looking to go up 3-1, playing a team desperately trying to even the series. That was exactly what we had tonight. The Colorado Avalanche had successfully defended home ice in…...
You know those annoying people that like to bring up the weather during casual conversation? Well, I’m one of them. I obsessively check the day’s forecast throughout the day and want to know what I’m facing anytime I decide to leave the house. So imagine my amusement when I checked the forecast before leaving my house and seeing that the…...
Ahhh, yes. The backup goaltender storyline, we meet again. Backup goalies and quarterbacks are often joked about as the most popular players in town because while the number one guy is in the spotlight, there’s always that section of people clamoring for the next guy in line. The grass is always greener, you know? Well in a conference finals with…...
Hockey, like most facets of life I suppose, is built on some time-worn cliches that get us through things like game recaps. They become cliches, however, because at the core is almost always some level of truth found in there. One of hockey’s great truths is that you’re never in trouble in a playoff series until you lose a home…...
The stage was set following an unforgettable 7-2 win at home in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs at Ball Arena on Tuesday. Though a goal wasn’t scored two minutes into this contest like last time, it wouldn’t take Nathan MacKinnon much time at all to get the Avs on the board 5:25 into the first period. He led…...
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