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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 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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Journeyman minor-leaguer Andrew Agozzino has a big night for the Avalanche in his first NHL game since 2015-16

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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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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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Avalanche Insider: Jared Bednar won’t order bag skates or bench his top players

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Jared Bednar won’t start yelling and kicking. The Avalanche coach, despite his staff ’s eight-game losing streak and NHL-worst 5-16-6 album since Dec. 7, won’t dictate bag skates and seat his leading players without constant cause. Bednar is a participant ’s coach who believes in person and group meetings over bag skates — a term
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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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When Avalanche games go into overtime, losing is almost a certainty

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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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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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Analysis: At this rate, the Avalanche will become a trade-deadline seller

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Nearly three weeks prior to the Feb. 25 NHL trade deadline, the Avalanche is inching towards becoming a vendor and adding on for its glorious 2019 draft portfolio. Colorado’s goaltending has been below average, the group ’s defensive lapses continue together with frequency and trainer Jared Bednar says he’s tried every ahead blend from the
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