The Colorado Avalanche escaped the Vegas expansion draft relatively unscathed, losing goaltender Calvin Pickard to the Golden Knights and improving at the position in the years after. That was not the case with this year’s round of expansion as the Seattle Kraken were set to take one of the $3M players on Colorado’s roster. Between Ryan Graves, J.T. Compher, and…...
Protected lists are due in one week and while some teams may be scrambling to make moves the Avs protected list should be pretty set except for the final few spots. This video breaks it all down for the Avs. https://youtu.be/klvJt1grcSo
JT Compher records his first career hat trick as the Avs continue to hunt down the president’s trophy. Is the Avs’ depth getting hot just in time for the playoffs? https://youtu.be/m1BSCl5RE-o
Something a little bit different since that game wasn’t really worth talking about. The Avs top five producers are truly something to behold. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmAsI0E8jqo
The Avs are better than you. They know it, you know it, all the fans newly back in the arena know it. This is the type of game that makes teams question their entire existence. https://youtu.be/-RTeP9ZwCiU
Despite the blazing hot Joonas Donskoi the Avs fall short in OT to Vegas to bring the season series to 3 – 2 – 1 in the battle for the top of the West Division. https://youtu.be/8qFN9VcrbfU
The Avs continue their dominant stretch of hockey with what might be their weakest underlying game but the score is still just as pretty. https://youtu.be/1gBTGVm_UPo
The Avs managed to beat themselves once again as the final score suggests. Even with the ugliness in this game, the Avs had opportunities to win and once they tighten up it’s not hard to see them going on the warpath. https://youtu.be/CjgA4zhzJjY
The next preview of the 2021 season adds some heat with Rudo and Evan bringing their hot takes to the table for the Avs’ bottom six forwards. Will Pierre-Edouard Bellemare be replaced or re-sign? What about Matt Calvert? and many other takes on the likes of Donskoi, Compher, Jost, and Nichushkin. https://youtu.be/83bOsR3-Pu8
The year that no one wanted is finally over. While the majority of 2020 is better left in the rearview, it wasn’t all bad on the ice. On this edition of The Tape, we look back at some of the best plays made by the Avs last season. 1. Depth dominance. We start with a little reminder that even a fourth-line…...
In an offseason that seems set to never end given the league’s owners current position of trying to take even more money from the players, we’re digging deeper into the bag of tricks that we in the biz call “content.” Today, we’re taking a look at one of the most-requested topics from readers: the expansion draft, how it works, and…...
The Avs forward core has championship-caliber depth, and the defense isn’t far behind. https://youtu.be/2mD-X3wLv_s
Three of the best Avs from a dominant performance against the Dallas Stars in the round robin. https://youtu.be/paGwUYSfdtc
Yesterday, we looked at “The New Guys” and how they’ve helped change Colorado’s roster at the top. Today, we’re going to look at everyone’s favorite players, “The Glue Guys.” No Stanley Cup has ever been won without the heart, grit, and lovable determination of the guys who go hard every shift of every game, even if they aren’t the most…...
When I went on the podcast this week and said I wasn’t worried about any of the teams out west being able to beat Colorado, I figured I was just getting the hype train prepped for what will surely be a fun playoff experience regardless of the outcome. What I wasn’t expecting was the hype train to be just as,…...
Players scoring on their old team might be the only consistent thing about the NHL. https://youtu.be/vUDERZPbFrc
The San Jose Sharks suck this year. After how last year ended for the Avalanche, I’m sure there’s some real schadenfreude going on with regards to how the Sharks have fallen apart and won’t even have their own draft pick to benefit from this lost season of theirs. But up close and back in the Shark Tank for the first…...
The three best Avs plus one from their road win over the San Jose Sharks. https://youtu.be/P9lV8HTZOJ8