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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 allows a flurry of power-play goals, loses to the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs

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Early in the second period Tuesday night, Avalanche forward J.T. Compher has been evaluated a double-minor penalty for cross checking stiff in the offensive zone. Compher was ready to devote the whole four minutes from the sin bin as his teammates killed off the drawback. Rather, he had been discharged after just 49 seconds. That’s
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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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Tyson Jost, the Avalanche’s 2016 first-round draft pick, sees the bright side of AHL demotion

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LOVELAND — Avalanche ahead Tyson Jost said Wednesday he’s taken his demotion to the American Hockey League’s Colorado Eagles “with a grain of salt” and certainly will return to the NHL club following week a much better player. Jost, who played 43 games with the Avs prior to being reassigned for their new AHL affiliate
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Philipp Grubauer in net as Avalanche hosts the similarly struggling Columbus Blue Jackets

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The Avalanche will seem to goalie Philipp Grubauer on Tuesday night to help stop a three-game losing streak in home. Colorado is currently 3-11-2 in its last 16 games but confronts a Columbus team that is also struggling. Columbus (28-20-3, 59 points) is on a five-game slide. The Avs (22-21-8, 52 points) are finishing a
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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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Rested Avalanche loses to Vancouver, falls to 2-8 in last 10 games

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The Vancouver Canucks scored double on his first four shots Saturday night as they magnified the Avalanche’s most glaring difficulty of lapses and playing behind. In a match between two highly rested teams in front of a sellout crowd at the Pepsi Center, the Canucks (24-22-6, 54 points) chose a three-goal lead twice before prevailing
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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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Why playing with Nathan MacKinnon is both a pleasure and a burden

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The Avalanche will follow along with its strategy to find secondary scoring by dividing up what is believed the NHL’s dangerous line in Saturday’s “Hockey Night in Canada” match against Vancouver in the Pepsi Center. For forward Alex Kerfoot, being promoted to the Nathan MacKinnon-centered line is both exciting and painful. “Pleasure to perform him
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Colorado Avalanche suffers black eyes, bruised knuckles and another crushing defeat at the hands of the Predators

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Ouch. Black eyes, bruised knuckles and another crushing defeat. This 1 hurt. Going into Monday’s matinee at the Pepsi Center — and as the Avalanche planned to gather a winning series for the first time since Nov. 28 — the Predators looked as good of a matchup as any so as to inject some mojo
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