GLENDALE, Ariz. — Playing facing fans for the first time in almost a year, the Avalanche collected two wins and a maximum four points at consecutive-night games at Gila River Arena. Colorado finished the sweep Saturday with a 6-2 triumph against the Arizona Coyotes, who led in the 2 games which comprised limited fans but
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Cale Makar performed individual on-ice drills Thursday before Avalanche practice in a signal that Colorado’s standout rookie defenseman is nearing a return to training camp. Makar, one of three finalists for NHL rookie of the year, has not skated with the team since Saturday after being listed “unfit” to play; with league policy prohibiting teams
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Jared Bednar was animated as he’s probably ever been in his four decades as Avalanche head coach Saturday, at Day 5 of the training camp 2.0 in Pepsi Center. Bednar stopped an end-to-end 5-on-5 and unleashed an obscenity-laced tirade that included his concern about checking, the restricted practices remaining ahead of the Avs’ Aug. 2
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The Avalanche got a taste on Thursday of what it would feel like next month when the Western Conference playoffs unfold prior to no fans at 18,500-seat Rogers Place in Edmonton. For the first time because NHL training camps started Monday, the Avs maintained a scrimmage in a vacant Pepsi Center. “Obviously, it’so quiet, but
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A bit more than a year later choosing the Avalanche, Finnish winger Joonas Donskoi can unequivocally say totally free service went well for him. Donskoi, who played in the Western Conference finals last year with the San Jose Sharks, is currently preparing for the play with a group many believe may win the Stanley Cup.
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Some Avalanche players probably aren’t thrilled heading this year. Mikko Rantanen isn’t one of these. Last fall after all , the star right winger overlooked camp. Rantanen was without a contract in September and training by himself in his native Finland. He signed up a six-year, $55.5 million deal on the final afternoon of the
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For the first time since Feb. 17, Avalanche center Nathan MacKinnon had his two favored wingers on the flanks Monday in Day 1 of training camp to the NHL’s return-to-play, 24-team playoffs. This can be actually the Avs’ perfect line in operating toward winning the Stanley Cup. MacKinnon has skated with All-Stars Gabe Landeskog along
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Maybe what America needs is your pleasure of a hockey fight. Don’t even understand about you. However, everywhere I look, out of baseball commissioner Rob Manfred into NBA crusader Kyrie Irving, somebody’s fighting mad about something (or what ). From shore to shore, in red states and blue skies, people ’ve peaceful marches in the
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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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Ice hockey has been returned into Pepsi Center. Associated Articles Colorado youth hockey tradition outgrowing ice accessibility on Front Range Chambers: Avalanche rewind as NHL enters silent time prior to summertime playoffs As preceding Avs defenseman Kyle Quincey’s toddler son struggles brain cancer, hockey world rallies to offer support Dawg Nation hockey team looking to
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