Hello from the press room of the Pepsi Center. Avs host the Devils, the Devils, the Devils! tonight, 7 p.m., be there or not be there. A couple of news items from the skate: Nail Yakupov gets a top-line left wing assignment tonight, replacing Sven Andrighetto, who moves to the fourth line. Yak will skate with Nathan MacKinnon and Mikko…...
Lots of laughs around the locker of Nikita Zadorov today. That’s sarcasm. Definitely not a fun time for the big Russian defenseman again, as he is in that dreaded state of no-man’s-land of being good enough to be on the Colorado Avalanche’s roster, but not deemed good enough of late to play actual games. When Zadorov was a healthy scratch…...
Looks like these are the lines for the Avs tonight against the Stars, at Pepsi Center: Andrighetto-MacKinnon-Rantanen Landeskog-Duchene-Yakupov Greer-Kerfoot-Bourque Nieto-Soderberg-Comeau Johnson-Zadorov Lindholm-Barrie Barberio-Bigras Varlamov NOTEBOOK Colin Wilson will not play tonight with an undisclosed injury. He’s considered day-to-day. Patrik Nemeth is out too, with Tyson Jost and J.T. Compher out longer term. Kerfoot and Greer skated on…...
Going from the ride of a lifetime to the Stanley Cup Finals with the NHL’s darling of the postseason in the Nashville Predators, to traded to a Colorado Avalanche team coming off an embarrassing 48-point season, in just a matter of three weeks, was a shock to the nervous system of forward Colin Wilson. But once his final destination was…...
The Colorado Avalanche released its training camp roster Thursday, as the players met with the media for the first time in the 2017-18 season. As seen below, the roster includes center Matt Duchene, who was expected to be traded over the summer but still remains with the team. Duchene chose not to answer questions from the media and instead issued…...
I promise I’ll dress a little better for these things from now on. But yes, that is a Winter Classic Philadelphia T-shirt I have on. This week’s Avalanche Minute has me summing up the Avs’ moves on free-agency and giving my opinion. By the way, happy birthday to Joe Sakic. He’s 48 now. https://youtu.be/ehVyQNhux-I...
As the wait for a Matt Duchene trade keeps turning more and more into the hockey version of “Waiting For Godot”, Colorado Avalanche general manager Joe Sakic seems utterly unfazed by impatient fans (and media) screaming for him to “Do something!” As far as Duchene is concerned, he is a member of the Colorado Avalanche hockey club now and…...
The Colorado Avalanche spiced up the first day of free agency by acquiring forward Colin Wilson from the Nashville Predators in exchange for a 2019 fourth-round pick. Wilson, 27, scored 35 points (12 g, 23 a) in 70 games for the Preds last season. While he has not lived up to his draft pedigree (7th overall in 2008), Wilson should…...
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