Tag: Minnesota Wild
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Avalanche setting the pace among familiar list of contenders at midway point of season | NHL Insider
With back-to-back regulation losses, it is time to ask the question. What is wrong with the Colorado Avalanche? Actually, it’s not. The Avalanche have just been so good this season that back-to-back losses is uncharted territory for them. And at the halfway point of the NHL season, they’ve dug such a chasm between themselves and…
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Avalanche, Cale Makar remind Wild who runs the Central Division | Evan’s take
SAINT PAUL – This doesn’t look like a Colorado Avalanche team that needs any extra motivation, but Jesper Wallstedt may have made a rookie mistake in giving them some. “It kind of says that we’re a better team than them,” Wallstedt said after the Wild beat the Avalanche 3-2 in a shootout in November. “We…
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‘Exactly what we want’: Avalanche openly chase home-ice advantage after win over Predators, 4-2
Is it too early for the Avalanche to talk about having home-ice advantage in the postseason? Not at all. The Avalanche have apparently been talking about it for months. With a 4-2 win on Saturday night over the Nashville Predators and a Dallas Stars loss, the Avalanche extended their lead to six points in the…
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Why a tight Central Division race with the Dallas Stars isn’t a bad thing for the Avalanche | Evan’s take
The Colorado Avalanche are off to an historic start. Their reward? A whopping three-point lead on the second-place Dallas Stars. Such is life in the NHL’s Central Division. The Avalanche recently became the second team in NHL history to go beyond the first 25 games of a season with just one regulation loss. Through 29…
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After ‘frustrating’ end to last season, Ross Colton playing his best hockey in Avalanche uniform | NHL Insider
In the blink of an eye last October, Ross Colton went from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows. “It sucked, honestly,” Colton told The Denver Gazette. What “sucked” was Colton breaking his foot after blocking a shot in the second period of a game on Oct. 28, 2024, against the Chicago Blackhawks.…
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Vintage Landeskog returns in overtime loss as Avalanche win streak ends | 5 takeaways
All good things must come to an end. The Avalanche’s win streak has come to an end at 10 games, as the Minnesota Wild took down Colorado in a shootout on Friday afternoon by a score of 3-2. Naturally, it took more than 60 minutes to decide a winner in a game between the two…
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Colorado Avalanche set to open preseason against Vegas Golden Knights
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The Colorado Avalanche’s upcoming six-game exhibition slate includes two games each against the Dallas Stars, Minnesota Wild and Vegas Golden Knights. The Avalanche will open the preseason in the same building where their postseason ended in 2020-21 – T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. There were no preseason games in 2020-21. The regular season opened Jan.…
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Colorado Avalanche stick to formula in win over L.A. Kings
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Devon Toews, then Cale Makar. Then Devon Toews from Cale Makar. The Colorado Avalanche’s top defensive pairing picked up the scoring slack in the absence of Nathan MacKinnon and set the pace in a 3-2 win over the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday. Makar had a goal and an assist for the second straight night.…
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Colorado Avalanche ride four-goal second period to road win over Minnesota Wild
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One can never safely assume that the Colorado Avalanche have finally hit a wall. Nathan MacKinnon fired up the formerly sluggish visitors 18 seconds into the second period when he collected a long pass from Samuel Girard, then blew past the defense alone. He beat Cam Talbot glove side and tied the game at 1.…
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Colorado Avalanche cap home stand with thrashing of Minnesota Wild
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DENVER – Sixty minutes of first-rate hockey closed a home stand in which the Avalanche seemed to come into their own. Colorado cruised to a sixth straight victory Saturday afternoon, 6-0, and finished a nine-game stretch at Ball Arena 7-1-1. “We’re starting to put real strong performances together here in the course of this home…