Tag: Gabe Landeskog
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Mark Kiszla: Avs’ championship window closes when Joe Sakic leaves Ball Arena
The Avalanche have gone back to the future, scheming to hoist the Stanley Cup again by doing it the only way this NHL franchise knows how. Let Super Joe do the heavy lifting. “We could panic and try to blow everything up and start all over,” Joe Sakic said Thursday, vowing to run it back…
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Mark Kiszla: Avs won’t win another Cup until somebody makes MacKinnon grow up
The Avalanche won’t ever get out of this rut if the NHL’s most talented team can’t find somebody to kick Nathan MacKinnon’s butt. Chris MacFarland, the ultimate hockey nerd, was never going to be the man to do that dirty work. So it’s just as well that C-Mac has moved on to Nashville, where the…
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Mark Kiszla: Avs would be crazy to run it back, because Father Time is undefeated
LAS VEGAS – In the dying final seconds of their championship dream, Father Time coldly broomed the Avs off the ice and out of the NHL playoffs. “We’ll be back,” Colorado captain Gabe Landeskog vowed Tuesday night, while standing accountable at his locker stall in the aftermath of a 2-1 loss to Vegas that eliminated the…
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Mark Kiszla: Epic playoff collapses now a Jared Bednar trademark
LAS VEGAS — Ding, dong. The Avs are dead. Don’t tell me about a championship window for a hockey team that keeps beating its head against the same wall and somehow expects a different result. This is insanity. And it’s got to stop. A disgusting 5-3 loss to Vegas screamed the problem with the Avalanche…
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Mark Kiszla: This Avalanche run to the Cup is revenge tour against the hockey gods
The Avs’ bandwagon has a full tank of gas and is steamrolling everything in its path on a revenge tour against the hockey gods. If this quest for the Stanley Cup feels personal, that’s because the Avs, starting with superstar Nathan MacKinnon, are taking it very personally. After toppling the Kings and taming the Wild…
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Mark Kiszla: Avs are wagon rolling to the Stanley Cup with Gabe Landeskog in driver’s seat
Fuel up those fire trucks for the championship parade, because ain’t nobody stopping these Avs from hoisting the Stanley Cup. Hot take? Maybe. But I’ve got my reasons, and the No. 1 reason to believe this is the Avalanche’s year to win it all can be described in two words: Gabe Landeskog. He is this…
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Mark Kiszla: Kings are clowns the Avs need as practice for real NHL playoff battles ahead
After meticulously crafting a hockey team as beautiful as an ice sculpture, Joe Sakic must watch the rest of the NHL try to take a hammer to his Avalanche during the Stanley Cup playoffs. “This is going to be fun,” Sakic told me Sunday. With that guarantee, the 56-year-old Avs executive stepped off the elevator,…
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Kickin’ It with Kiz: Here’s the no-brainer first-round pick for the Broncos in NFL draft
The Broncos signed no big name in free agency? This is garbage. General manager George Paton not getting an extension means he decided not to give a flip? And is coach Sean Payton really so full of himself that he figured nothing about this team needed to improve or change? – L.F., Denver Kiz: OK,…
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Mark Kiszla: Why no Denver athlete in last 40 years has worn the ‘C’ as well as Gabe Landeskog
It’s back! And the secret to the Avalanche regaining its championship mojo can be found in Special Sauce No. 92. Want to know why the Avs tower like Pikes Peak over everyone in the NHL’s power rankings? Start with the we’re-in-it-to-win-it vibe established by captain Gabe Landeskog. “I don’t want to say I told you…
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Avalanche alumni urge support for ex-NHL players: ‘We don’t have the tools’ | Health after hockey: Part II
Editor’s note: The Denver Gazette presents a three-part investigative series on health after hockey for NHL players. Part I examined the life and death of Colorado Avalanche enforcer Chris Simon. Part II digs into the support system for retired players. Kyle Quincey woke up in the hospital after 6 hours of lost consciousness with 40…