The Avalanche already had a massive challenge at the start of this season. One game in, it got tougher.Jonathan Drouin, a breakout player and one of the great stories in…
LAS VEGAS — The Avalanche’s first contest of the 2024-25 season looked far too similar to Game 1 of the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs.Alexandar Georgiev allowed five goals on 16…
LAS VEGAS — The Colorado Avalanche is working with a thinner margin for error to start the 2024-25, but no missing forwards would have made up for the deficiencies on…
General manager Chris MacFarland acknowledged the uncertainty surrounding his team as it prepares to open the 2024-25 season Wednesday night in Las Vegas.He also made it clear the expectations for…
The 2024-25 NHL season began this past weekend with a couple of games in Prague, but league play begins in earnest in the coming days.It should be a fascinating season.…
Zeev Buium had a freshman season for the ages a year ago, and now he’s got a chance to be one of the most decorated players in the history of…
For years, Gabe Landeskog was the go-to guy for the Colorado Avalanche in the net-front position on the power play.With Landeskog unavailable the past two seasons, Valeri Nichushkin evolved into…
The intensity and physicality at Colorado Avalanche practice increased dramatically Wednesday, with the last two exhibition games looming and a few spots in the opening night lineup still up for…
When Cale Makar danced through the Winnipeg Jets for one of the prettiest postseason goals in franchise history, he pointed to the moment during the sequence when he felt luck…
Jared Bednar has been answering questions about the positives and negatives of playing his superstar forwards, Nathan MacKinnon and Mikko Rantanen, together versus apart, for several seasons.The start to this…
HIGHLANDS RANCH — Ralston Valley’s plan to control the clock and slow the game down against Valor Christian looked like a great idea for about a quarter and a half.Then…
Training camps open this week, so it’s time to take stock of where everyone in the NHL is with the offseason behind us.We will revisit these rankings a few times…
Not a lot has changed for the Colorado Avalanche since its 2023-24 season came to an abrupt end in the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs in May.The Avs…
FORT COLLINS — There was plenty of discourse over the past week about Colorado’s offensive line and comments their quarterback made that were perceived as a slight to the guys…
FORT COLLINS — There might not be a better representation of the ebbs and flows of being a college football fan in the current chaotic landscape than the scene Saturday…
Hunter Goodman was working on a nice game when he stepped into the batters’ box in the bottom of the eighth inning.He made a career night with one more swing.Goodman’s…
For the first time in 495 days, Antonio Senzatela will find his way to the mound for a major league game.Senzatela, returning from Tommy John surgery on his right elbow,…
Plenty has changed for Calum Ritchie in the past year, but his importance to the Colorado Avalanche remains the same.Ritchie is the organization’s top prospect. He’s the best chance for…
FORT COLLINS — Colorado State collected its first win in a Rocky Mountain Showdown tuneup, but the cost might have lasting effects on the Rams’ season.CSU defeated Northern Colorado, 38-17,…
