Studs Colorado’s stars Cale Makar, Mikko Rantanen, and Nathan MacKinnon combined for six points tonight and were awesome. Their shot metrics were superb, they dominated the eye test, and they produced at an elite rate. Against a Buffalo team that frequently gets billed as Colorado East when the Avalanche were in their first stages of this competitive window, the Avs [...] The post Avs-Sabres Game 29 Studs & Duds appeared first on DNVR ..read more

It took goals from Mikko Rantanen, Nathan MacKinnon, Cale Makar, Tomas Tatar, Ross Colton, and Ben Meyers but the Avs overcame their mistakes. The post Mikko Rantanen’s Wild Ride | Avalanche Review Game 28 appeared first on DNVR ..read more

Colorado needed to dig deep tonight to ensure their losses didn’t begin to stack up.  The Calgary Flames have had struggles of their own this season and sit in the middle of the Pacific Division. After a pretty mixed homestand, the Flames hoped to snag a win on the road to start things off on the right foot. Both teams [...] The post “It shows a lot in terms of how deep guys can dig.” Tomas Tatar, Mikko Rantanen, and Avs’ PP breakout from their struggles appeared first on DNVR ..read more

Studs Tomas Tatar Scoreless through the first 27 games (Tatar played in 26 of them), a guy who had scored 211 goals in his NHL career finally broke through from a terrible dry spell to start his Avalanche career. He made a nice finish in front of the net on a great play from Ross Colton. Good finish, the exact [...] The post Avs-Flames Game 28 Studs & Duds appeared first on DNVR ..read more

Studs Discipline Lost in what was ultimately a disappointing night, one upside I enjoyed was that the Avalanche only had to kill one penalty on the night. It’s a little skewed because they also were called for another one that resulted in a penalty shot, but both situations were thisclose to going well for the Avalanche. They didn’t, however, but [...] The post Avs-Flyers Game 27 Studs & Duds appeared first on DNVR ..read more

The Colorado Avalanche (16-9-2) returned to Ball Arena for the third game of their homestand. They received more reinforcements in the way of Val Nichushkin who returned to the lineup tonight after missing two games due to illness. As a result, the lines received more remixing. Nichushkin joined the second line made up of Mikko Rantanen at center and Tomas [...] The post “We’re shooting ourselves in the foot…” Nathan MacKinnon continues to impress, but Avs frustrate themselves with another loss appeared first on DNVR ..read more

Tonight the Colorado Avalanche were downed 4-2 by the Winnipeg Jets. On just the second game of their homestand, the Avs left some division points on the table. The score coming out of the first period didn’t fully capture Colorado’s start. It wasn’t all bad, and Avs even had a jump early into things, but they lacked urgency by the [...] The post “We got to get more guys going in the same direction…It’s costing us.” Jared Bednar says some stars need to be better following Avs 4-2 loss appeared first on DNVR ..read more

Studs Nathan MacKinnon Remember two whole games ago when I was frustrated that Nathan MacKinnon hadn’t taken over a game in a while and even though he was finding his way to points, he just didn’t look like Nathan MacKinnon? Fair to say that’s over. His goal and assist tonight felt like the Jets got off easy as he was [...] The post Avs-Jets Game 26 Studs & Duds appeared first on DNVR ..read more

Nathan MacKinnon drops a goal and two assists playing next to Jonathan Drouin who adds two assists of his own as the Avs get past the Anaheim Ducks. The post The Halifax Homies (Drouin & MacKinnon) | Avalanche Review Game 25 appeared first on DNVR ..read more

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