A 2 – 0 win in a quality, complete game from both teams is just another notch in the Avs and Darcy Kuempers belt. Even against top-quality competition, the Avs high-end talent cannot be stopped. https://youtu.be/NMvXOUaeW4I

Jack Johnson – C+ He’s being asked to do maybe a little more than you’d ideally like him to with Bowen Byram out of the lineup, but I really do think his play has been trending upward lately and I liked his game for the most part tonight. Erik Johnson – C- I just want him to settle into his…...

The Jack Eichel trade went down at the crack of dawn yesterday morning, ending an embarrassing saga for the Buffalo Sabres who essentially held their star player and former captain medically hostage while they waited for teams to pony up the assets to free him of the shackles of being a Sabre. Vegas was always one of the most logical…...

The Avs offense comes up short against Vegas once again as Colorado falls to 2 – 4 on the season. Some encouraging signs from the defense were not enough to get the avs over the hump and back to .500. https://youtu.be/TCIyivTHelA

Colorado’s season ended Thursday night with a 6-3 loss in Game 6 against the Vegas Golden Knights. The first four-game losing streak of the season for the Avalanche ended up costing them their chance at the Stanley Cup as the Avs once led 2-0 in the series and watched it all slip away. The Avs were significantly better than their…...

In a best-of-series, there’s a certain margin of error afforded each team. It’s exactly three games. After that, a team has to be perfect to get through to the next round. After Mark Stone’s game-winning goal in overtime won Game 5 for Vegas, Colorado’s margin for error is now completely gone. Once up 2-0 in this series, the Avalanche has…...

Game 3, meet Game 4. You’re so alike, I have a feeling you’re going to get along great. As long as you aren’t from Colorado, it’s going to be an adorable match and you could have a fantastic long-term future together. The Avalanche heads back to Denver following a 5-1 thrashing at the hands of the Vegas Golden Knights with…...

Here’s the short part of the story: Colorado played poorly again in Game 3 while Vegas fed off an energized home crowd and outplayed and embarrassed the Avalanche for much the game. Two goals in 45 seconds late in the third period erased a 2-1 Colorado lead and flipped the series from heading to 3-0 in Colorado’s favor while the…...

Throughout the course of this regular season, a lot of talk surrounding the Colorado Avalanche centered on the concept of the “kinds of games” that championship teams win. It was overblown a bit but it was interesting to watch the Avalanche evolve as the year went on as they kept checking the boxes. Watching the defending Stanley Cup champions last…...

Coming into Game 1 of the highly-anticipated Colorado-Vegas series, the conversation largely centered around “rest versus rust” and the surprising decision of the Golden Knights to start Robin Lehner after Marc-Andre Fleury backstopped them through a grueling seven-game series against Minnesota. Coming out of Colorado’s 7-1 Game 1 demolition of Vegas, there are answers to some of those questions but…...

After a week of waiting, the Colorado Avalanche finally has a Round 2 opponent. It wasn’t easy as the Vegas Golden Knights coughed up a 3-1 series lead for the third consecutive year but they prevailed last night in a Game 7 domination of the Minnesota Wild with a 6-2 victory, bringing them here to Denver for Game 1 tomorrow…...

The Avs may win the president’s trophy or they may not. At this current moment know one knows exactly what the future holds for Colorado but I do know one thing, I’m going to enjoy the ride. https://youtu.be/bbqije6bFRM

Following two straight losses in St. Louis to the suddenly-surging Blues, Colorado rolled into Vegas to take on the Golden Knights in a matchup anticipated by everyone. These are two teams everyone views as Stanley Cup contenders and the two likeliest teams to come out of the West Division in the postseason. With Vegas four points up on Colorado in…...

The point streak lives! That’s the upside, I suppose. The downside is Vegas retained control of the West Division as they scraped out a 3-2 overtime to stay just one point ahead of Colorado in the standings. Because the season didn’t end today, there are a variety of takeaways here. The Avs now have a 10-game point streak in which…...

Okay, now what? The Avs had a huge series against Minnesota and they destroyed the Wild to the point where one of their beat writers spent the following week harping on how shots are counted because there was nothing else of substance from that series to delve into. Colorado went to Arizona and pulled three of four points against the…...

The four-game series between the two favorites from the West Division finished much as it started – with an opportunistic Vegas team finding enough offense and then turning the keys over to highlight-machine Marc-Andre Fleury. The first game of the series was a 1-0 Vegas win in which the Avs played a sloppy, disjointed game where Fleury made no mistakes…...

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays Nathan MacKinnon from the swift scoring of his points. The Avs battle the element of good weather and come away victorious, eventually. https://youtu.be/TuE7vt1jq5g

I guess technically I’ve had all day to start writing this piece because the puck dropped right about 12 and a half hours ago to begin Colorado’s third outdoor game experience, this time a Lake Tahoe “home” game against the Vegas Golden Knights. Sam Girard scored just minutes into the contest and the television broadcast worked overtime to prevent gratuitous…...

In an 82-game season with a normal schedule, there isn’t very much you could do to paint the 13th game of the season as particularly important. You’d still have about 85% of the regular season remaining and most likely would see that team again down the road, especially a division rival. Maybe you’ve noticed but we’re not in a normal…...