Kurtis MacDermid with the game-winning goal, not something you see every day but it sure is fun. Key plays from Colton and Nichushkin alongside some key saves from Georgiev helped set the stage for the hero. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax0nzaKapks
Colorado kicked off the first leg of their back-to-back tonight in Minnesota. They made pretty clean work of things against Vancouver, but tonight posed some new challenges. Sam Girard has entered the NHL’s Player Assistance program and will be unavailable to the Avs for an indeterminate amount of time. Alexandar Georgiev started in net, and Logan O’Connor is still day-to-day…
While there are still plenty of issues to clean up scoring six unanswered goals to comeback against the Dallas Stars is no small feat. Wood, Johansen, Nichushkin, Rantanen, Cogliano and Colton all finding the net shows how deep the Avs scoring goes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jgtXia-VVo
Colorado had soup and salad in Seattle and Anaheim, but tonight was a main course and the Avs didn’t come hungry enough. Fortunately, comebacks make them work up quite the appetite. The Dallas Stars entered tonight on a four win game streak eager to make it five – especially with division points on the line. Despite going down 0-3 in…
Depth goals from Kiviranta, Cogliano, and Colton come in big as the Avs drop eight goals on the Anaheim Ducks. Strong production from Nichushkin, Girard, Johnson, and Toews carried the night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmi4jsZ9Eio
The Colorado Avalanche returned home after a successful outing in Seattle on Monday night, and Anaheim came to Denver on the second leg of a back-to-back. After an embarrassing loss to the St. Louis Blues in their last game at home, Colorado needed to reinforce their home-ice advantage with a steady performance. In a poetic fashion, the Avs flipped the…
It was an uneasy start but the Avs ultimately got back on track in dominant fashion. With key goals from Rantanen, Colton, and Makar the Avs managed to add some confidence builders from Drouin and Nichushkin too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIv0koAxMzs
Miles Wood comes through with two crucial plays against his old team alongside the Avs stars of Rantanen and MacKinnon to help secure an Avalanche win despite some Ross Colton nonsense. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WPlpl1MrW4
Sometimes you keep it simple, sometimes you just try stuff. When you are Nathan MacKinnon, Mikko Rantanen, and Cale Makar you do what you want. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymOzToJ3eFw
Colorado returned home to play in front of the home crowd after their three game road trip out East. There were a lot of storylines to get them up for this game: they were shutout their last two, Riley Tufte was recalled from the Eagles with a chance to impress after a good training camp, Ivan Prosvetov made his Avalanche…
One game into the season and Ross Colton is already impressing on the defensive side of the puck. How effective can he become as PKer and defensive stalwart while still providing needed depth production? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSzcwchBTc8
Colorado kicked off the first game of their regular season on the road in Los Angeles tonight. They started the year in the win column with a 5-2 victory. It was the first of three on a long road trip. After a flurry of excitement with the waiver claim of goaltender Ivan Prosvetov and a trade for defenseman Caleb Jones…
The Colorado Avalanche played their first preseason game in Ball Arena this afternoon. After three days of training camp, the squad entered game-action for the first time. They lost in a close 4-3 final, but there were still several storylines to follow. https://twitter.com/DNVR_Avalanche/status/1706019390230298915 It was a blend of NHL players and hopefuls including the debut of the probable-third-line made up…
Over the last handful of years the Avs have brought in a number of depth players and reclamation projects but have they actually performed betting in Colorado? The numbers a encouraging, and when applied to incoming players like Ross Colton and Ryan Johansen it could spell big things for the Avalanche this season. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ5w719u_zI
After a couple of weeks of waiting, the Colorado Avalanche and Ross Colton agreed to terms on a four-year contract Monday evening. The deal is worth $16M total, giving Colton a salary-cap hit of $4M per season. Colton had filed for arbitration and the hearing was set for July 27, but with this agreement that hearing will obviously be canceled.…
A day after trading young center Alex Newhook to the Montreal Canadiens, the Colorado Avalanche used part of the return from that deal to find his replacement in landing Ross Colton from the Tampa Bay Lightning. The final trade came down to Colton for the 37th pick, the later of the two picks acquired yesterday in the Newhook deal. Colton…
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