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Gabe Landeskog back for Avalanche voluntary skates “to make sure I’m ready” for playoff run

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Gabe Landeskog read 9-10 novels, spent months of quality time together with his wife and daughter, also found ice time at Toronto to train during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. But there was something about return to the Avalanche’s Pepsi Center ice on Monday. It was something regular. This was something different — again in the
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Avs Mailbag: Colorado continues to build from prospects, injured players getting healthy, NHL season update and more

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Denver Post sports writer Mike Chambers responds to queries in the Avs Mailbag every week throughout the season.  Pose an Avalanche- or NHL-related question for its Avs Mailbag. When the NHL resumes, how would the Loveland Express be up and running? In other words would be the Eagles be playing so players can have ice
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Star assessments: Evaluating the Avalanche’s top players in 2019-20

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Avalanche superstar Nathan MacKinnon is beyond a three-star player. If there were a fourth star, he would have it. And teammates Cale Makar and Ryan Graves, among others, are perhaps equally as important to a club that flirted with the Western Conference regular-season championship before the coronavirus pandemic halted the season. To help fill the
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Avs Mailbag: Who would Colorado most want to see in playoffs — if games are actually played?

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Denver Post sports writer Mike Chambers responds to queries in the Avs Mailbag each week.  Pose an Avalanche- or NHL-related query for the Avs Mailbag. What team would introduce that the Avs’ most favorable matchup in the playoffs’ first round? Least positive? — Jack, Hooper  If and once we resume play, Jack, I might think
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Avs Go From the Basement to Contenders in 3 Years

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How did the Colorado Avalanche transform themselves from one of the league’s worst teams, with 48 points in 2016-17, to contending for the top seed in the Western Conference in three short years? Changes. Lots and lots of changes. And it all started with current general manager Joe Sakic. The Perfect Storm – 2016-17 season
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Avalanche beat Red Wings 2-1, extending two winning streaks

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DETROIT — Make a nice nine. Captain Gabe Landeskog withstood a crunching hit when making a pass that surfaced Logan O’Connor to get a breakaway goal in the next stage, and also the Colorado Avalanche conquer the Detroit Red Wings 2-1 on Monday night for their season-high seventh straight victory. Better yet, it was the
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Tampa Bay extends win streak to 11 with overtime goal to beat Avalanche

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Lightning struck twice at the Pepsi Center on Monday night. To begin with, Avalanche first-line winger Mikko Rantanen was triggered into the end boards in the next stage and didn’t go back. Colorado’s highest-paid participant be out “weeks” using a shoulder injury. And then the red-hot Tampa Bay Lightning got a sleek breakaway goal from
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Avalanche skates past Blues with big second period

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Unexpectedly , this five-game homestand that takes the Avalanche to an 11-day split between games has turned into a affair. The Avs, who began the homestand prolonged their points streak Saturday by beating the finest in the company in the Pepsi Center. At a tight defensive game that featured just 43 joined shots, Cale Makar
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Avs dominate Sharks, improve to 1-0-2 in five-game homestand

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Looking for a team effort to squash the the Avalanche pulled off that and more Thursday night at Pepsi Center. This wasn’t just a solid triumph. It had been near-perfect in front of a crowd. The Avs cruised to a 4-0 triumph over the San Jose Sharks in Game 3 of a five-game homestand, moving
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Reeling Avalanche falls short in overtime loss to Penguins

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The relatively healthy Avalanche was a better team when it was injury-depleted — much like the current banged-up Pittsburgh Penguins. Minus superstar Sidney Crosby and a handful of other regulars Friday night, the Pens rallied from a third-period deficit and defeated the Avs 4-3 in overtime at the Pepsi Center. Center Jared McCann scored with
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