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Finnish forward Joonas Donskoi chose Avalanche in free agency last summer. He’s now having a career year.

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A bit more than a year later choosing the Avalanche, Finnish winger Joonas Donskoi can unequivocally say totally free service went well for him. Donskoi, who played in the Western Conference finals last year with the San Jose Sharks, is currently preparing for the play with a group many believe may win the Stanley Cup.
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Nathan MacKinnon back with preferred wingers as Avalanche begins training camp

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For the first time since Feb. 17, Avalanche center Nathan MacKinnon had his two favored wingers on the flanks Monday in Day 1 of training camp to the NHL’s return-to-play, 24-team playoffs. This can be actually the Avs’ perfect line in operating toward winning the Stanley Cup. MacKinnon has skated with All-Stars Gabe Landeskog along
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Star assessments: Evaluating the Avalanche’s top players in 2019-20

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Avalanche superstar Nathan MacKinnon is beyond a three-star player. If there were a fourth star, he would have it. And teammates Cale Makar and Ryan Graves, among others, are perhaps equally as important to a club that flirted with the Western Conference regular-season championship before the coronavirus pandemic halted the season. To help fill the
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Chasing Gretzky, Alex Ovechkin could join 700-goal club against Avalanche

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Alex Ovechkin will face the Avalanche on Thursday night needing two aims to become the eighth part of their NHL’s 700 club. But because of his age, that landmark goes past hockey and places the Washington Capitals superstar on par with the best professional athletes of all time. The Capitals’ media relations team duly suggests
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Avs blow another third-period lead, fall 3-2 to Stars in overtime

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In case the NHL Plays had opened Tuesday, the Dallas Stars and Avalanche would have started a first-round show involving the Central Division’s Nos. 2 and 3 seeds. But, no, we’re three months away from the postseason and Tuesday’s tilt was the fourth and closing assembly between the competitions. Overtime was required, and also in
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Avalanche All-Decade Team: Colorado’s best players from 2010 through 2019

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Having a decade at Colorado sports coming to a close, The Denver Post has a look at the top players in 2010 through 2019 for each of Denver’s important specialist franchises. This ’s the Avalanche’s team: Forwards Colorado Avalanche Mikko Rantanen (96), Nathan MacKinnon (29) and Gabriel Landeskog (92) celebrate a goal from the Vegas
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Avs sweep their two-game homestand after beating Blue Jackets

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Counterbalance was the theme Saturday night at the Pepsi Center. The Avalanche, overlooking to begin the game and also a fourth late in the next phase, used three objectives out of two 21-year-old defensemen to conquer the Columbus Blue Jackets 4-2. Rookie Cale Makar scored and fellow blue-liner Sam Girard once because the Avs swept
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Chambers: Avalanche has been at its best against NHL’s best

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Against the NHL’s teams this year, the Avalanche has come experts up. Before the year began the two teams most capable of winning the Stanley Cup were both the Tampa Bay Lightning and Boston Bruins at the Eastern Conference, along with the Nashville Predators and Vegas Golden Knights from the West. Throw from the defending seminar
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Nikita Zadorov had surgery to repair broken jaw, out “week-to-week” for the Avalanche

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The Avalanche will be without another player on a basis, trainer Jared Bednar stated Saturday morning, since defenseman Nikita Zadorov sustained a broken jaw Thursday and necessary surgery Friday. “Everything went nicely, therefore we’ll just watch how things go another few days and then we’ll attempt to put him back to the ice,” Bednar stated
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Avalanche regains offensive mojo in 9-4 victory against Predators

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The Avalanche crime entered Thursday night at a substantial drought. Colorado responded against Nashville using a tidal wave of aims. The Avs hammered the Predators, 9-4, within the Pepsi Center with six targets over 8 minutes in the second stage alone to snap a five-game losing series. Colorado forwards Joonas Donskoi listed his hat trick.
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