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Denver Sports Omelette: Cowboy up! Cale Makar and Avalanche ready for Round 2 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs

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Cowboy up! The Colorado Avalanche have had a few days to dust themselves off after beating up on the No. 1-seeded Calgary Flames in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The triumph in Game 5 at Calgary advanced the Avs into the second round of the playoffs for the first time in more
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Kiszla: Can’t ignore big, white elephant in the room. Nikola Jokic among NBA’s five best players in 2019.

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Underneath exactly the exact same basket Nikola Jokic rattled with a thunderous dunk that brought down the house, there sat linebacker Von Miller, wearing a No. 15 Nuggets jersey. In the first row near midcourt, Avalanche star Nathan MacKinnon leaned forward in a prime seat, savoring each one of Joker’s 16 points, 11 rebounds and
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Avalanche podcast: Avs win first NHL playoff series since 2008, what’s next and Milan Hejduk

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Denver Post hockey writer Mike Chambers visits with former Avalanche great Milan Hejduk at the latest episode of Traffic In Front of the Net. Hejduk, with his No. 23 retired from the Pepsi Center rafters, discusses the Avs’ first playoff-series victory since 2008 — when he was the right winger on a line with Joe
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Nuggets throttle Spurs in pivotal Game 5, take 3-2 series lead

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The Nuggets know they’re the better team. It only took them until Game 5 to prove it. Sooner or later, their confidence was likely to overwhelm. That flooding came in the form of an 108-90 rout of San Antonio on Tuesday night at the Pepsi Center, giving the Nuggets a commanding 3-2 lead in their
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Kiszla: LaMarcus Aldridge finally gives Nuggets fans what a too-polite basketball city needs, a villain to boo

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They’re Nuggets to crack, as LaMarcus “Low Blow” Aldridge and those basketball bullies down in San Antonio have found. In this NBA playoff series, have the Spurs come undone? We all know the Nuggets have nowhere close to the championship pedigree of a proud San Antonio franchise and harbor ’t even won a match in
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Chambers: Cale Makar making seamless transition from NCAA to NHL, and impressing off the ice

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CALGARY, Alberta — The grounded Cale Makar won’t make waves with Avalanche. Character counts in hockey, and the Avs wouldn’t have introduced Makar into the lineup at the Stanley Cup Playoffs if they believed he would interrupt chemistry. Makar, 20, didn’t perform in a single shift in Colorado’s season but is currently a defenseman for
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Grapes on a plane: Nuggets star Paul Millsap opens up on “little brother” Jamal Murray

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SAN ANTONIO — Jamal Murray was brooding when he walked to the Pepsi Center after rushing a possible game-winning shot in Game 1 of the Nuggets playoff series against San Antonio. As Murray trudged in from the players’ parking lot, head down, he heard a familiar voice. “I was just like ‘shake back! ’” Nuggets
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Avalanche, Cale Makar provide memorable moments in dominating Game 3 victory over Calgary Flames

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The script felt like total fiction, a dream made up for a college sophomore and a No. 8-seeded playoff team who played in different countries 24 hours earlier. Defenseman Cale Makar skated in the NCAA championship game in Buffalo on Saturday while the underdog Avalanche was preparing for Game 2 of its first-round series at
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Avalanche looks to sign Cale Makar immediately after NCAA championship game

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CALGARY, Alberta — The Avalanche will attempt to signal University of Massachusetts sophomore defenseman Cale Makar immediately after Saturday’s NCAA championship game in Buffalo, the group said, but it’s unknown if the 2019 Hobey Baker Award winner will make his NHL debut in Game 3 against the Calgary Flames at the Pepsi Center. Makar, 20,
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Why J.T. Compher is the Colorado Avalanche’s secret weapon in chase for Stanley Cup

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We should’ve seen it coming. In the 14 regular-season contests in which winger Avalanche winger J.T. Compher found the web — he scored just 16 times, but few were cheapies — Colorado posted a stellar record of 10-1-3. Fast forward to the Stanley Cup playoffs and there’s Compher, again, fastening a set of jumper cables
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