For Avalanche rookie sensation Cale Makar, the sky’s the limit

Cale’s strengths are his overall foundational hockey abilities (skating, puck handling, checking, etc.). Cale also has a love and passion for the game. He loves to play and he loves to practice. — Crowchild Pee Wee coach John Smith’s end-of-season report card on Cale Makar, April 2010 It wasn the way Cale Makar toed the
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Colorado Avalanche knows its penalty killing has been in peril at the Pepsi Center. Are things finally looking up?

Avalanche forwards Gabe Landeskog and Carl Soderberg had exactly the identical answer, which was no answer. “If we knew how to repair it, we’d,” they each said Feb. 16, soon after absorbing a 3-0 loss to the St. Louis Blues in the Pepsi Center. Colorado had just lost its sixth consecutive game at home, where it
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Journeyman minor-leaguer Andrew Agozzino has a big night for the Avalanche in his first NHL game since 2015-16

In the 470th game of his professional baseball career, but only his 11th at the NHL and first since the 2015-16 season, center Andrew Agozzino scored his first goal at the highest degree. Conserve the puck. Agozzino, 28, had been on Cloud 9 Monday night after serving lead the Avalanche into a 3-0 victory over Vegas
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Avalanche allows a flurry of power-play goals, loses to the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs

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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Analysis: Avalanche remains patient with goalie Spencer Martin

Should you assume Semyon Varlamov will stay nutritious — and that’s really been a terrible premise for the previous three years — the Avalanche appears to have enough goaltending thickness. There’so called Varlamov and newly signed free agent Phillip Grubauer — the 2018 Stanley Cup winner from the Washington Capitals — using the Avs. And
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