New Avalanche forward Derick Brassard had an interesting 11 hours

Derick Brassard would have liked a little warmup. After scoring a goal in his Avalanche debut Monday night — approximately 11 hours after shifting locker rooms at the Pepsi Center — the Avs’ new forward from the Florida Panthers revealed he hadn’t skated at the previous 3 days. The Panthers didn’t have a morning skate
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Colorado Avalanche knows its penalty killing has been in peril at the Pepsi Center. Are things finally looking up?

Avalanche forwards Gabe Landeskog and Carl Soderberg had exactly the identical answer, which was no answer. “If we knew how to repair it, we’d,” they each said Feb. 16, soon after absorbing a 3-0 loss to the St. Louis Blues in the Pepsi Center. Colorado had just lost its sixth consecutive game at home, where it
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Avalanche keeping MacKinnon, Landeskog and Rantanen’s line broken up vs. Winnipeg

The Avalanche’s lines at Wednesday night’s match against the Winnipeg Jets will again look like trainer Jared Bednar drew names from a hat. There is a method to his madness, nonetheless, and Bednar would like to stick to what helped deliver a 3-0 success over the Vegas Golden Knights on Monday. Scorers Nathan MacKinnon, Mikko
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Journeyman minor-leaguer Andrew Agozzino has a big night for the Avalanche in his first NHL game since 2015-16

In the 470th game of his professional baseball career, but only his 11th at the NHL and first since the 2015-16 season, center Andrew Agozzino scored his first goal at the highest degree. Conserve the puck. Agozzino, 28, had been on Cloud 9 Monday night after serving lead the Avalanche into a 3-0 victory over Vegas
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Avalanche snaps six-game losing skid at Pepsi Center with shutout win over Vegas

After performing apparently everything wrong in the previous six home matches, the Avalanche merged up its own lines Monday night and finally discovered a winning recipe facing a near-sellout audience of 17,808 at the Pepsi Center. The Avs, who’d been outscored 28-9 throughout their six-game losing streak in front of faces, got plenty of scoring,
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Andrew Agozzino, the Colorado Eagles’ leading scorer, gets his shot with the Avalanche

While tearing up the American Hockey League offense, Andrew Agozzino has waited patiently for his shot at the NHL. Even the 28-year-old center is the Colorado Eagles’ top scorer and ranks fourth in the AHL with 50 points (22 goals). Six Eagles forwards, however, were called up to the Avalanche until Agozzino obtained the call Sunday.
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Analysis: Top-line struggles explains the Avalanche’s eight-game losing streak

Toronto’s top forward and its supporting offensive cast easily outplayed the Avalanche and its very best players Tuesday night in the Pepsi Center. In a match containing three point-per-game gamers on each aspect, the Maple Leafs won in a landslide. Colorado’s top line of center Nathan MacKinnon along with wingers Gabe Landeskog along with Mikko
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Avalanche allows a flurry of power-play goals, loses to the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs

Early in the second period Tuesday night, Avalanche forward J.T. Compher has been evaluated a double-minor penalty for cross checking stiff in the offensive zone. Compher was ready to devote the whole four minutes from the sin bin as his teammates killed off the drawback. Rather, he had been discharged after just 49 seconds. That’s
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When Avalanche games go into overtime, losing is almost a certainty

The optimist would say the Avalanche is on a three-game points streak, having lost its last three games in overtime. The pessimist would say Colorado has lost three straight games in OT — falling to 1-11 on the season when the game goes beyond regulation — and takes a seven-game losing streak overall into Tuesday’s
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Tyson Jost, the Avalanche’s 2016 first-round draft pick, sees the bright side of AHL demotion

LOVELAND — Avalanche ahead Tyson Jost said Wednesday he’s taken his demotion to the American Hockey League’s Colorado Eagles “with a grain of salt” and certainly will return to the NHL club following week a much better player. Jost, who played 43 games with the Avs prior to being reassigned for their new AHL affiliate
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