When it wasn’t readily clear a few weeks ago, it’s jumping-off-the-screen clear now — Malik Beasley is legit. Monte Morris isn’t too bad . Or Torrey Craig. Or Trey Lyles. Or Juan Hernangomez. Or. The Nuggets are filled, and we may not even understand it when it wasn ’ t for the injuries suffered during
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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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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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Less than 15 minutes later meeting with reporters Tuesday night in the Pepsi Center, Avalanche general manager Joe Sakic witnessed a prime example of why his team entered its game against the Columbus Blue Jackets having won an NHL-low five games since Dec. 7. Exercising from the puck — the term for playing defense in
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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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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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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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Avalanche coach Jared Bednar had the NHL All-Star break and the team’s designated bye week to reflect on its 3-7 slide in the last ten matches and float about the rest 32 regular-season games. Changes were expected and, so, the Avs will have a look Saturday night when they play their very first game. Against
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There were jams, and there has been a downpour of 3-pointers. But rather than coming out of a Houston side that has tormented Denver the past couple of decades, it had been the Nuggets who flipped the script. Underneath newly-crowned All-Star Nikola Jokic and career-high nights in Malik Beasley and Torrey Craig, the Nuggets snapped
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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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