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Avs Mailbag: Colorado continues to build from prospects, injured players getting healthy, NHL season update and more

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Denver Post sports writer Mike Chambers responds to queries in the Avs Mailbag every week throughout the season.  Pose an Avalanche- or NHL-related question for its Avs Mailbag. When the NHL resumes, how would the Loveland Express be up and running? In other words would be the Eagles be playing so players can have ice
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NBA targets May 8 for earliest individual player workouts at team facilities

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The NBA’s crawl toward normalcy reach a milestone Monday with a significant date circled on the group calendar. Related Articles Nuggets insider: Michael Malone delivers firsthand take of Michael Jordan in “The Last Dance” Nuggets exit interview: Mason Plumlee’s consistent ethics a luxury Denver may not be able to afford Nuggets exit interview: Torrey Craig’s
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If NHL resumes play, Jared Bednar needs “two weeks or less” to get Avalanche up to speed

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Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said Thursday he can get his team prepared to play competitive hockey “two weeks, or much less,” when the NHL decides to resume its regular period. The NHL “stopped ” its season March 9 because of the coronavirus, the afternoon after Colorado defeated the New York Rangers to increase to 42-20-8.
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How Peyton Manning and Todd Helton fared in the East Tennessee celebrities tournament bracket

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John Leyba, The Denver PostTodd Helton speaks with Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning on Oct. 13, 2013 at Mile High Stadium in Denver. Together with the NCAA Tournament being canceled due to this coronavirus outbreak, it looks like every outlet has their own version of March Madness. (Shameless plug: Vote within our best Colorado athlete
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Colorado Xplosion, the state’s first pro women’s basketball team, helped ABL change the sport

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Amid the dust, both dinginess and thin crowds of Denver Coliseum, the Colorado Xplosion planted seeds for women ’ s basketball’s growth and stabilization. The unheralded team was in the center of excellence in girls ’s basketball in 1996 as one of eight franchises in the American Basketball League. The ABL launched that October because
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Chambers: Saturday marked the unofficial end of the NHL’s regular season. Now what?

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The NHL’s regular unofficially ended Saturday, and if all games hadn’t already been postponed since March 12, the Avalanche could have hosted the St. Louis Blues at the season finale for both teams in the Pepsi Center. The sport likely could have had implications in identifying the Center Division winner and also Western Conference regular-season
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With baseball postponed, Coors Field’s Aramark workers struggle with no financial support from company or Rockies

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For Debra Gow-Kennedy, Functioning in Coors Field is a family affair. Both she and her husband would be Aramark workers, the former a cashier as well as the latter a cook, whereas three more family members function for its concession business in the stadium. However, with the significant league season indefinitely postponed due to the
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Chambers: Let’s play Stanley Cup hockey all summer

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Let’s play summertime baseball — the ideal time of year to walk into a rink that is refrigerated. I overlook playing with it in addition to covering hockey. The 1 thing that my private skates have over the NHL is that we do it yearlong — we get to play the game if a beer
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Lessons from Spain: Nuggets coach Jordi Fernandez fears coronavirus on two continents

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At least three times every day, Nuggets assistant trainer Jordi Fernandez transports to Spain, in which cousins, uncles, aunt, his parents, sister, grandma and friends all grapple with their new reality. The FaceTime calls supply a little reprieve for both Fernandez, 37, who’s watched as the yanks from afar at the threads of their own
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Second Avalanche player tests positive for coronavirus, team says

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A Colorado Avalanche player has tested positive the group announced Saturday morning. Associated Articles Avalanche provides AHL defenseman Jacob MacDonald two-year extension Avalanche participant tests positive for coronavirus Avalanche awards AHL All-Star T.J. Tynan with a 2020-21 contract Avalanche rewind: 12 defining moments from the 2019-20 year Star evaluations: Evaluating the Avalanche’s leading players in
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