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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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Nuggets Journal: NBA’s return – and postseason – hinges on these four factors

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A little more than fourteen days into the coronavirus hiatus and NBA heads are becoming restless. Players whose bodies have been conditioned to ramp up their performance are currently stewing. Trainers who would ordinarily be scouting playoff competitions are left with an void. Media, typically tasked with figuring tiebreak scenarios out are forced to speculate.
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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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Nuggets rewind: From embarrassing to stunning, the 8 moments that defined Denver’s season

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Whichever way the time went, it was definitely going to be memorable. The Nuggets would capitalize on year &rsquo effort and establish that their staying power or discriminated beneath the stress of expectations. Though the Nuggets skidded into the hiatus with six losses in their past 11 matches, theyrsquo;t experienced a season up to now.
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Nuggets/Avalanche ticket holders in limbo amid postponed seasons for coronavirus pandemic

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Martin Letain is a lifelong Colorado Avalanche fan. The Canadian proposed to attend his first game at Pepsi Center at mid-March when he bought two tickets months in advance of puck fall against the Vancouver Canucks. The game date was a sign Friday the 13th. “It was really poor timing,” Letain stated. “I was dreaming
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Coronavirus may have delayed the MLB season, but here’s 5 classic Rockies games you can watch for free

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Matthew Stockman, Getty ImagesNolan Arenado of this Colorado Rockies celebrates with his teammates after hitting a 3 RBI walk off home run in the ninth inning against the San Francisco Giants at Coors Field on June 18, 2017 at Denver. While the world of sport is stuck on pause contrary to the coronavirus pandemic that
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