For two periods, it certainly looked like the Colorado Avalanche had a bounce-back game in store against the Golden Knights. Colorado’s second half of a back-to-back was going well in Las Vegas.
Fourteen-year-old Jackie flew to Colorado all the way from San Antonio, TX for her wish to meet her favorite hockey team, the Colorado Avalanche! Her wish began at Denver International Airport, where she was met by Make-A-Wish Colorado volunteers and Bernie, the Avalanche mascot, who personally escorted Jackie down the jet bridge.
As with every game, you take the good with the bad, so time to take a look at the pluses and the minuses in the game against the Vegas Golden Knights for the Colorado Avalanche.
The Colorado Avalanche are closing the regular season running through a difficult Western Conference gauntlet that – in theory – was going to be a good preparation for the playoffs.
The Colorado Avalanche are headed back to the NHL Playoffs in 2024. And they enter the tournament with a bit of a chip on their shoulder. Colorado entered last year’s playoffs as the defending Stanley Cup champion.
The Avalanche have been finding new ways to have bad games as the start of the playoffs near closer. Sunday’s 4-3 overtime loss at Vegas was no different.
In the NHL, you can play two nearly perfect periods, and still come away without two points. The Colorado Avalanche learned that the hard way on Sunday afternoon.
Hockey expert Tony Sartori of the Action Network has NHL picks with two anytime goalscorer predictions for games on Sunday.
Welcome to the April leg of the 2023-24 NHL regular season. At this point in the calendar, the stakes are elevated. We’re starting to see teams clinch playoff spots.
Hockey expert Nicholas Martin of the Action Network shares a prediction for Sunday's NHL game between the Colorado Avalanche and Vegas Golden Knights.
One team in Colorado had a much better day than the Avalanche. MUCH better. The Denver Pioneers, the premier program in NCAA Hockey, became the first school to win 10 National Championships on Saturday when they shutout the stacked Boston College Eagles by a score of 2-0.
Jared Bednar and the rest of the Avalanche coaching staff will be watching a lot of Winnipeg Jets video over the next week, and no, they will not be burning the tape from Saturday’s game.
DENVER — The Avalanche are asking starting goalie Alexandar Georgiev to do more than what he was brought in to do. Darcy Kuemper wasn’t asked to play behind a team giving up turnovers at this rate.
The Stanley Cup Playoffs are nearly upon us, and barring a miracle, the Colorado Avalanche‘s first-round opponent is set. The Winnipeg Jets spent much of the year looking destined for a Central Division title.
What a year it’s been for Colorado Avalanche first rounder Calum Ritchie. Ritchie’s Oshawa Generals advanced beyond the first round with a six game win over the Barrie Colts, and round two started for them on Friday night against the Ottawa 67’s.
The Colorado Avalanche have been without superstar Mikko Rantanen for the last two games after the Finn was concussed on a hit from Edmonton Oilers D-man Mattias Ekholm back on April 5.
With just three games remaining in the regular season, the Colorado Avalanche have a chance to secure a good spot in the standings ahead of the playoffs.
While Rantanen has been out for the team’s last two games due to a concussion, Wagner has been with the team for the better part of two weeks.
Scoring 50 goals in a single NHL season is quite an accomplishment for a player. Doing it for the first time – in the middle of a hat trick no less – is even more special.
It seems wild to fathom that a player like Nathan MacKinnon who has accomplished so much already had any milestones left to achieve. He’s a Stanley Cup champion, has two 100-point seasons – including the current one – and four others during which he tallied more than or nearly 90 points.
We split our plus-money prop looks yesterday, and we'll aim to do one better with two more looks on the ice tonight. There's plenty of action, but we've aimed to follow a pair of home teams in games that matter.
There is no doubt that the Colorado Avalanche are true Stanley Cup contenders as the regular season inches toward the finish line. The team is currently (As of April 8) second in the Central Division, third in the Western Conference, and sixth in the league with a record of 48-24-6 for 102 points.
After the Colorado Avalanche seemed unstoppable for most of March, they’ve simmered down a bit in the past couple weeks. In their last seven games, they’ve lost five games, and that was capped off by back-to-back games over the weekend against the Edmonton Oilers and the Dallas Stars, where they were outscored 13-6 in the process.
Colorado Avalanche head coach Jared Bednar announced that forward Mikko Rantanen has been placed in concussion protocol and will be out day-to-day. He has been skating on his own and will not be out of the lineup for long.
The Avalanche have signed veteran forward Chris Wagner to a one-year contract extension.
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