Good thing this game was at five o’clock Mountain, The whole audience may have fallen asleep if it went past ten. https://youtu.be/6SAbQb7I8K0
The three factors that made the Avs loss to the New York Islanders a complete bore. https://youtu.be/fAOkEVmYZ-o
Semyon Varlamov is finding it hard being a backup
Facing a must-win game on home ice against a floundering opponent that had just been eliminated from playoff contention 24 hours earlier, it was a familiar face who manned the net when the Avalanche took the ice tonight. Instead of starting Philipp Grubauer, arguably the hottest goaltender in the NHL over the last two weeks and the man responsible for…...
Despite Philipp Grubauer being the hottest goalie in the NHL at the moment (a .980 saves percentage and 0.99 goals-against average in the last five starts), and despite him having a three-year contract and presumably the inside track at being the No. 1 goalie of the Avalanche for the future, there is a strong chance Semyon Varlamov could return to…...
When we talk about how goaltenders are voodoo, this is the stuff we’re talking about. There were no signs of this coming. Following a dominant home win on January 4 against the New York Rangers, Philipp Grubauer started three games in the span of a month, giving up 16 goals (!) in those starts. At that point, Semyon Varlamov had…...
This will be a tough postmortem to perform, if, as it appears more and more likely, exactly how and why the Avalanche fell apart so badly in the second half of this season and missed the playoffs. I don’t really get it, folks. On Dec. 6, the Avalanche had a 17-7-5 record after a 5-2 win at the BB&T Center…...
Here’s the audio from last night’s locker room scrums with Nathan MacKinnon and Semyon Varlamov. I got to MacKinnon alone before others joined up and, as you’ll hear, others joined Varlamov and weren’t shy about asking the same question he’d already answered. Up first is MacKinnon: After we have the amusing interview with Varlamov, raw and uncut....
It was all right there for it to be a storybook day for Derick Brassard. Start the day with one team, play for the other just down the hall. Score the go-ahead goal with about 12 minutes left in the game, despite almost no sleep the night before and not having skated for three days. It’s still a great story.…...
I’m actually having a hard time getting this story started. Or, I was anyway. I probably sat here for 15 minutes staring at the milky white screen thinking “Did I just see what I think I saw?” I mean, look, we did not witness man walking on the moon. We did not witness the Rapture or anything. All that happened…...
After the process dominating the results for a while and goaltending being the primary face of their issues, the Avalanche rolled into Chicago tonight and flipped the script. In what was their worst defensive showing in quite a while, Semyon Varlamov once again owned the United Center. Varlamov’s stellar performance continues a strong run from him as his resurgence has…...
In the latest installment of the “Avalanche Weekly Breakdown”, presented by Piper Electric, Adrian Dater joins Allie Monroy to discuss why it’s OK to start feeling better about the Avs’ playoff chances again. Also up for discussion: What made Monday’s win over Vegas more special than usual, and why Friday’s game in Chicago is so Uuuuuuge. https://youtu.be/VV6Iol_kI9I
That’s how you end a losing streak! Following weeks of futility and seemingly inventing new ways to lose on any given night, the Avalanche went into a place that’s been nothing short of a house of horros and slayed a whole grip of demons all at once. Sure, it’s just one game but Colorado’s 4-1 win over the Winnipeg Jets…...
When you’ve lost seven games in a row, there aren’t really any positives you can take into the eighth game that don’t sound hollow or meaningful. The Avalanche went out and had the kind of first period they really needed to have. Sure, there were some mistakes but asking a team to play mistake-free is asking a team not to…...
BOSTON – Oh that’s right: Doing the same thing every time and expecting a different result. I can’t believe this overtime thing. But it comes down to the same thing every time: the Avs can’t finish anything with any of their chances in overtime. They overpass, just miss, get robbed, lose key faceoffs, turn pucks over and can’t make a…...
BOSTON – Never seen anything quite like this, this curse. I grew up around this area, too, where I truly used to believe in curses. Like, I really, truly believed the Red Sox and Patriots were cursed. But, no, I don’t think that anymore. Not about them anyway. But this overtime thing? It’s a curse at this point. The Avalanche lost…...
Allie Monroy and Jesse Montano discuss the Colorado Avalanche’s recent slump, roster moves they may make before the trade deadline, and more! https://youtu.be/WdBsC0xR3nI
Semyon Varlamov has huge pressure on him with Avalanche against Vancouver Canucks
Semyon Varlamov and Philipp Grubauer have not gotten the job done for the Avalanche
Semyon Varlamov talks about his recent struggles and looks ahead.
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