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Avs coach Jared Bednar blasts his players after losing a game they had to win

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Avalanche coach Jared Bednar chastised his players Friday following his rested squad blew a 2-0 lead and dropped to the road-weary Anaheim Ducks at a game Colorado had to win to keep its dwindling playoff hopes alive. “We were checking with our eyes,” Bednar said following the Ducks scored in the final minute of regulation
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Colorado Avalanche get shut out at home by Carolina Hurricanes

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Carolina Hurricanes goalie Petr Mrazek gathered or pushed aside everything the Avalanche threw at him Monday night, destroying the Avs’ glorious chance to gain ground in the Western Conference playoff hunt. “I have to say, he played a great game,” Colorado ahead Mikko Rantanen stated. After Minnesota dropped at home and Arizona dropped on the
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Avalanche dominates Buffalo Sabres in first game without Gabe Landeskog

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Producing shots Saturday was no issue, and preventing them seemed similarly as easy. The Avalanche, minus all-star left wing and team captain Gabe Landeskog, put together one of its most complete game of the season in front of a sellout crowd of 18,052 in the Pepsi Center. In Landeskog’s first absence of this season, Colorado’s
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Chambers: Avalanche trade for Derick Brassard didn’t help playoff chances much, but Colorado was smart at the deadline

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Based on the last four games, it s hard to criticize the Avalanche for doing little Monday’s NHL trade deadline. After outscoring four opponents by a combined 20-4 — including 5-0 at Nashville on Saturday — that the Avs are playing their best hockey of the season and believe they have what it takes to
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Colorado Avalanche knows its penalty killing has been in peril at the Pepsi Center. Are things finally looking up?

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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 in playoff picture after another victory over Central Division-leading Winnipeg

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The Avalanche is devouring everything in its course and alive. In response to an eight-game losing skid, the Avs have climbed back in the Western Conference playoff picture by producing factors in six of their last eight games — a stretch capped by Wednesday night’s 7-1 triumph over the Central Division-leading Winnipeg Jets in the
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Avalanche keeping MacKinnon, Landeskog and Rantanen’s line broken up vs. Winnipeg

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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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Avalanche snaps six-game losing skid at Pepsi Center with shutout win over Vegas

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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

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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

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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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