The Avs are putting it all together depth scoring from Ryan Johansen, Cale Makar being Cale Makar, special teams functioning on both ends, Alexandar Georgiev standing on his head, and more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX65YMj52kQ
The Colorado Avalanche had one more game at home before taking off for a three game road trip later this week. Before they could fly out, they had business to handle in Ball Arena against the 10-6-5 Tampa Bay Lightning – now 10-7-5 after tonight. The Lightning started the year without two-time finalist and Vezina winner, Andrei Vasilevskiy. Both teams…
The Colorado Avalanche had a quick turn around after their 3-2 victory in Minnesota last night. Back in Ball Arena, the Avs took off from morning skate to stay as fresh as possible. The Calgary Flames, also coming in on the second leg of a back-to-back, had an eventful night of their own with a 7-4 win over Dallas last…
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
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
A 4-point night from Mikko Rantanen leads the way as the Avs drop a touchdown in New York. The Avs’ top players had the offense turned up to 11 which allowed them to get away with some slopiness on the other end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1GOM-Ykam4
The Avs kicked off their three game East coast road trip tonight in New York against the Islanders. Colorado stayed hot with a 7-4 win to go 6-0-0. With their win, the Avs unlocked a new league record of 15 consecutive regular season road wins. They started their road-streak last March and remained perfect on the road through this point.…
A four-point night from Artturi Lehkonen helps the Avs to a five-goal second period and a W over the Hurricanes. The Avs continue to show they have the forward depth they were lacking last season. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TovpK4qL7BE
Shorthanded goals appear to be the secret ingredient for Colorado right now as LOC kicked off the scoring with his 2nd of the year. Backed up by quality play in all facets of the game the Avs rolled to an easy shutout. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgOd1EjZaGM
After a three game sweep on the road, Colorado finally returned to Ball Arena to play in front of their home crowd. Chicago entered tonight’s contest on the heels of a 4-1 victory over Toronto for the fifth game of their own road trip. Understandably, they were running on fumes and the slight momentum-bump of a 2-2-0 record. Colorado may…
The Colorado Avalanche wrapped their final preseason game on the road in Vegas tonight. They gave up four unanswered goals to fall 4-3 in the end, but it was not without several highs among the lows. To start, Colorado did not hold back on bringing their big-guns. https://twitter.com/DNVR_Avalanche/status/1710111380312072516 Nathan MacKinnon skated on a top-line with Jonathan Drouin and Artturi Lehkonen,…
The Colorado Avalanche won their second game of the preseason against the Vegas Golden Knights 3-2. https://twitter.com/megangley/status/1706473096147034279 Compared to Sunday’s game, tonight’s lineup featured a lot of youth from players like Maros Jedlicka, Jeremy Hanzel, Ivan Ivan, Oskar Olausson, Matt Stienburg, Jason Polin, and Gianni Fairbrother. At the top, Ryan Johansen and Jonathan Drouin made their Avalanche debut. Bowen Byram…
Jonathan Drouin showed some high-end skill alongside the likes of Ryan Johansen and Oskar Olausson in the first win of the preseason for the Colorado Avalanche. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUqgXywCCZI
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
Colorado’s biggest need has been filled. What would you most like to see the Avs address next? AJ: I’ve always been a defense-first kind of guy, but even with the hole(s) on the Avalanche blueline, I want to see how they fill the myriad of forward jobs. I wonder if the injury issues last year will push the team to…
The Avalanche kickstarted their offseason on Saturday morning by agreeing to a trade that will send pending free agent Alex Galchenyuk to the Nashville Predators in exchange for Ryan Johansen. In addition to the players, Nashville agreed to retain 50% of Johansen’s remaining contract. I’m going to give a grade of the trade at the end because that’s what everyone…
The Colorado Avalanche dropped the opening game of their first round series against the Nashville Predators by a score of 5-2.
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