Outscoring your problems gets a W just as well as not having any. Goals from Nichushkin, Makar, Rantanen, Erod, and crucially Eller were enough for the Avs to take the 5 – 4 win over Ottawa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQpuZWkPLHg
Seven goals including multi-goal performances from Rantanen, Lehkonen, and Newhook lead the Avs to their biggest win of the season. Finally a spark of life inside an organization that has been on the struggle bus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JduGQnRgESg
The Panthers, Lightning, and Leafs remain the teams to beat in the Atlantic but could we see these teams take a step back this season or will they continue to control the East? https://youtu.be/v-GjIOE_Iek
The Avs are right back to chaotic hockey as they manage to squeak a point out of Ottawa. With problems hitting them before the game even began the uphill battle was not made any easier by the reffing but the loss still ultimately falls on the Avs own faults. https://youtu.be/Rb14_GPQEdo
Who knew the season series against the Ottawa Senators would provide so much drama? After Colorado’s 7-5 home win against the Sens last week, the Avalanche visited Ottawa’s barn and another roller coaster ensued with Ottawa getting a 6-5 overtime win this time around. It was a game full of controversy, however, as Ottawa’s third goal is the kind that…...
The Avs won and that may be the only tangible thing you can take from this hockey game where up was down and left was right. A fun experience but not a sensical one. https://youtu.be/U37ZcAtGpFU
Imagine hearing this last season: The Colorado Avalanche have too much depth. The idea that the Avalanche lacked scoring potential beyond its top line was beaten to death, beaten in the afterlife, and then beaten some more. Colorado was often called a ‘one-line team.’ It seems that Joe Sakic felt personally attacked by this narrative because, since the conclusion of…...
It must be some kind of mutation for Rantanen to have a backhand like that. https://youtu.be/N24QmY2kntk
The three best Avs from their shutout victory on home ice over the Ottawa Senators. https://youtu.be/V-GLxvfAPPE
It took 514 days but Avalanche fans woke up last week finally not giving a damn about the Ottawa Senators. A lot has happened in that time. Ottawa went from an expected playoff team to a league doormat and the Avalanche flipped the script on a 48-point season to consecutive playoff seasons. When Matt Duchene was finally (mercifully?) traded in…...
Matt Duchene and the Ottawa Senators played an eerily familiar game tonight against the Colorado Avalanche.
In this edition of the BSN Avalanche Weekly Breakdown, presented by Bender’s Bar and Grill, Allie Monroy and Adrian Dater break down the Colorado Avalanche’s upcoming matchups against the Senators and the Wild. They also discuss the return of Matt Duchene and what is to be expected as well as some positives thing to take away from Wednesday’s loss to…...
BROOKLYN, N.Y. – If ever there was a story that seemed destined to finish “And they lived happily ever after”, it was the union of Matt Duchene and the Colorado Avalanche. As a boy growing up in remote Halliburton, Ontario, Duchene papered the walls of his room with posters of Avalanche heroes such as Joe Sakic, Patrick Roy and Peter Forsberg.…...
The Colorado Avalanche have traded Matt Duchene to the Ottawa Senators as part of a three-way trade involving the Nashville Predators. In exchange, Ottawa forward Kyle Turris heads to Nashville and both teams send a combination of picks and prospects to the Avalanche. From Ottawa, the Avalanche received forward Shane Bowers, goaltender Andrew Hammond, a first round pick in 2018…...
Jared Cowen is no fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs. “I wish teams would have more of an interest in taking better care of their players instead of whatever their goal or mindset was there,” Cowen, at Colorado Avalanche training camp on a professional tryout, said Friday. Cowen was acquired by the Maple Leafs in February of 2016, but never…...
On the Avalanche’s pre-training camp roster right now are two of the top 10 picks in the 2009 NHL entry draft. Matt Duchene is, yes, still on the Avs and was the third player announced in the first round of that ’09 night in Montreal. Six spots later, Ottawa Senators personnel stepped to the stage and said they were proud…...
The big news out of Avalanche headquarters had nothing to do with Saturday night’s rematch with the Edmonton Oilers or anything else with the final few games down the stretch of this abysmal season. Rather, it had everything to do with the early part of next season. The NHL announced Friday morning that the Avalanche will play in Stockholm,…...