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Avalanche allows a flurry of power-play goals, loses to the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs

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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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What’s wrong with the Avalanche? Joe Sakic says it’s not coaching. “We can turn this thing around”

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Less than 15 minutes later meeting with reporters Tuesday night in the Pepsi Center, Avalanche general manager Joe Sakic witnessed a prime example of why his team entered its game against the Columbus Blue Jackets having won an NHL-low five games since Dec. 7. Exercising from the puck — the term for playing defense in
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Kiszla: Avs are the team Joe built. So would it be wrong to blame Sakic for a hockey team that stinks?

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This is the team that Joe constructed. And that team stinks. For a full two months, our local NHL squad was a rip-roaring disaster downhill that is directly, like a stinking Avalanche. “Oh, here it comes,” Joe Sakic said Tuesday, as I ready to ask why a team that stood tall next to Nashville beneath
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Rested Avalanche loses to Vancouver, falls to 2-8 in last 10 games

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The Vancouver Canucks scored double on his first four shots Saturday night as they magnified the Avalanche’s most glaring difficulty of lapses and playing behind. In a match between two highly rested teams in front of a sellout crowd at the Pepsi Center, the Canucks (24-22-6, 54 points) chose a three-goal lead twice before prevailing
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Avalanche splitting up Nathan MacKinnon, Gabe Landeskog, Mikko Rantanen line

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Avalanche coach Jared Bednar had the NHL All-Star break and the team’s designated bye week to reflect on its 3-7 slide in the last ten matches and float about the rest 32 regular-season games. Changes were expected and, so, the Avs will have a look Saturday night when they play their very first game. Against
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Why playing with Nathan MacKinnon is both a pleasure and a burden

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The Avalanche will follow along with its strategy to find secondary scoring by dividing up what is believed the NHL’s dangerous line in Saturday’s “Hockey Night in Canada” match against Vancouver in the Pepsi Center. For forward Alex Kerfoot, being promoted to the Nathan MacKinnon-centered line is both exciting and painful. “Pleasure to perform him
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Landeskog, Rantanen come up big in NHL All-Star tournament

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Avalanche teammates Mikko Rantanen along with Gabe Landeskog combined for eight goals and five assists in their two games in Saturday night’s NHL All-Star championship game. But it was Sidney Crosby who was the MVP with four assists in 2 games on precisely exactly the identical ice in which he won
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Avalanche All-Star trio: MacKinnon, Landeskog and Rantanen share rare connection

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The lights went dark before the puck drop from the Avalanche’s ultimate match prior to the All-Star break. Three players standing near the house bench were saw by A spotlight. A crowd roared as the trio waved and smiled. A hockey toast to background made from the Mile High City. The Avs’ top line of
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Why Carl Soderberg, Avalanche’s oldest member, is playing best hockey of NHL career

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There is a reason 33-year-old Carl Soderberg is enjoying the best baseball of his NHL career. The Avalanche second-line center tipped the puck beyond Los Angelesw Kings goaltender Jonathan Quick in the first stage Saturday. It opened the floodgates for a 7-1 success and notched Soderberg’s 16th objective of the year, tying a career high
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Avalanche rolls over Kings with dominant 7-1 victory

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Colorado spent the past two weeks trudging through a disastrous road trip.  Perhaps the Avalanche were nostalgic. Because one shot of sold outside Pepsi Center energy burst Saturday afternoon into the group ’s dominant performance this season. The Avalanche defeated the Kings 7-1 to tie some season-high for goals scored.  The win gives Colorado (22-18-8)
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