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Nathan MacKinnon reaches milestone as Avalanche defeats Islanders 3-1

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In winning trend Wednesday night, Nathan MacKinnon attained a Hall of Fame-backed milestone with his 50th point of the season, becoming just the third Avalanche participant to produce 50 points in 3 consecutive seasons. Merely club legends Joe Sakic and Peter Forsberg had done this before, together using Sakic (1998-2002) and Forsberg (1995-99) — both
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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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Avalanche GM Joe Sakic discusses Nathan MacKinnon injury, Mikko Rantanen contract, Jared Bednar extension and more

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Avalanche general manager Joe Sakic held a season-ending news conference Tuesday, less than a week after his team lost Game 7 of a Western Conference semifinal playoff series to the San Jose Sharks. Sakic — Star center Nathan MacKinnon will not require shoulder surgery after suffering the injury early in Game 7. “Just rest,” Sakic
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Avalanche erupts from wretched first period to blow out Edmonton

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It was a gallant change of heart. The first period felt like a funeral. The Avalanche played as if its playoff hopes were dead during the first 20 minutes Tuesday at the Pepsi Center. The Edmonton Oilers, who were eliminated from the postseason by losing Monday at Vegas, produced the game’s first nine shots in
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Avalanche goalie Philipp Grubauer is in that special place: “The zone”

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Avalanche Trainer Jared Bednar and standout defenseman Tyson Barrie used the same Term to describe goalie Philipp Grubauer after Wednesday morning’s skate at the Pepsi Center. “He’s at a zone,” they said. “It’s really helpful to get into a rhythm, for sure,” Grubauer said of his busiest stretch of the season. Semyon Varlamov, who started
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Avs coach Jared Bednar blasts his players after losing a game they had to win

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Avalanche coach Jared Bednar chastised his players Friday following his rested squad blew a 2-0 lead and dropped to the road-weary Anaheim Ducks at a game Colorado had to win to keep its dwindling playoff hopes alive. “We were checking with our eyes,” Bednar said following the Ducks scored in the final minute of regulation
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Chambers: Avalanche trade for Derick Brassard didn’t help playoff chances much, but Colorado was smart at the deadline

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Based on the last four games, it s hard to criticize the Avalanche for doing little Monday’s NHL trade deadline. After outscoring four opponents by a combined 20-4 — including 5-0 at Nashville on Saturday — that the Avs are playing their best hockey of the season and believe they have what it takes to
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Avalanche in playoff picture after another victory over Central Division-leading Winnipeg

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The Avalanche is devouring everything in its course and alive. In response to an eight-game losing skid, the Avs have climbed back in the Western Conference playoff picture by producing factors in six of their last eight games — a stretch capped by Wednesday night’s 7-1 triumph over the Central Division-leading Winnipeg Jets in the
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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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Avalanche snaps six-game losing skid at Pepsi Center with shutout win over Vegas

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After performing apparently everything wrong in the previous six home matches, the Avalanche merged up its own lines Monday night and finally discovered a winning recipe facing a near-sellout audience of 17,808 at the Pepsi Center. The Avs, who’d been outscored 28-9 throughout their six-game losing streak in front of faces, got plenty of scoring,
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