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Cale Makar overtime goal for Avalanche finally dispatches pesky Coyotes

DENVER — The Avs seem to encounter few obstacles more mystifying than a Coyotes team with nothing to lose.

The Denver Post

Avs snap winless streak with lopsided 6-0 shutout of weakened San Jose Sharks

The Avalanche did not need a bigger boat.

The Denver Post

Avs trade for Jack Johnson, sending Andreas Englund to Chicago Blackhawks

Jack Johnson won a ring in Denver, and now he’s returning for more.

The Denver Post

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How Cale Makar returned to Avalanche games with head injury twice in one month

DENVER — Avalanche coach Jared Bednar is comfortable with how the team has handled the health of Cale Makar after the defenseman, on two separate occasions this month, was cleared to return to games in which he sustained head injuries that later turned out to be related concussions.

The Denver Post

Panthers’ Matthew Tkachuk dons goggles, goes full ‘Florida Man’ in Breakaway Challenge

SUNRISE, Fla. — Matthew Tkachuk really likes being a Florida Panther and he wants to make sure everyone knows it.

Miami Herald

SI:AM | Let These College Hoops Games Fill Your Football Void

It’s a loaded slate this weekend.

Sports Illustrated

Cale Makar Is the Next Bobby Orr

It’s long been sacrilege to suggest anyone could measure up to the all-time great. But then the Colorado defenseman came flying into the picture.

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Another fast start fuels Avalanche in dominant 4-1 win over Canucks

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Suddenly, the Colorado Avalanche’s strong starts are beginning to blur together enough to be forgotten.

The Denver Post

Alexandar Georgiev shines, Mikko Rantanen breaks another Joe Sakic record in Avalanche 4-1 win at Calgary

CALGARY, Alberta — Jared Bednar’s choice of goaltender the last three games was never meant to stir speculation about a competition, nor was it a show of distrust in his starter.

The Denver Post

Cale Makar, Nathan MacKinnon both score twice in Avalanche’s 6-3 rout of Red Wings

DENVER — It would have sounded ludicrous as recently as four days ago to credit the 2022-23 Avalanche with a feat of dominance equally impressive as the previous year’s team.

The Denver Post

Florida Panthers score late to erase Avalanche 3-goal comeback in 5-4 Avs loss

From one moment to the next, the outlook on the Avalanche’s season can deteriorate from apprehension to hopelessness, or just as easily it can swivel from existential dread to ecstatic amnesia. The defending champion Avs are testing their fans on almost a nightly basis, as they simultaneously test their own…

The Denver Post

Seth Jones has no disillusions about hollow All-Star selection

Someone from the last-place Hawks had to be chosen, and Jones was the lucky — or unlucky — man. He’s now headed to Florida on Feb. 3-4, but he remains dissatisfied with his actual performance this season.

Chicago Sun-Times

Avs fall apart, Alexandar Georgiev slams stick, comeback falls flat: How Colorado blew 2-0 lead for fifth straight loss

The emotional high of Alexandar Georgiev’s season was aired on television after the seventh game. Two months and 30 games later, the low-point was also visible for everyone to see.

The Denver Post

Avalanche blow 2-goal lead in third period, lose in shootout to erase Cale Makar’s stellar night

DENVER — Nights like this from Cale Makar and Mikko Rantanen shouldn’t be taken for granted. Nor should they be wasted.

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NHL star hailed for incredible act of sportsmanship which could have cost team dear

The Colorado Avalanche defeated the New York Islanders 1-0 on Monday night - but star defenseman Cale Makar stole the show as he showed off his sportsmanship to reverse a poor penalty call

USA Today Sports Media Group

A classy Cale Makar amazingly got referees to wave off a penalty called against an Islanders player

What an amazing display of sportsmanship.

The Denver Post

Scoring depth continues to elude Avalanche in 4-2 loss to Sabres

DENVER — They had seen this before at Ball Arena. The Avs were knocking on the door, slowly establishing more offensive zone time. A scoring chance here and there. Once Colorado gets one, a second sometimes feels inevitable, especially for an underdog nursing a two-goal lead.

The Denver Post

Mikko Rantanen hat trick gives Avalanche dramatic overtime win at St. Louis

ST. LOUIS — Pavel Francouz and the Blues are a lot alike. If the Avalanche backup goalie had to be compared to any team this season, it would probably be St. Louis.

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Goalie Carter Hart rebounds and the Flyers defeat the injury-plagued Colorado Avalanche, 5-3

PHILADELPHIA — No captain Gabriel Landeskog, no winger Valeri Nichushkin, no winger Artturi Lehkonen for the reigning Stanley Cup champion Colorado Avalanche, due to injury. That was (almost) no problem for the Flyers, who have been decimated by injuries of their own for the last two seasons.

The Denver Post

Avalanche blow 3rd-period lead to Canucks, Evan Rodrigues injured

At the Avalanche’s first practice after a loss to St. Louis last week, coach Jared Bednar responded to a question about potential injuries from that game by half-jokingly commenting that Colorado “made it through one.”

The Denver Post

Avalanche stay hot, escaping Dallas on Mikko Rantanen’s shootout goal

Alexandar Georgiev broke out the same celebration.

The Denver Post

Nathan MacKinnon, Cale Makar lead charge for Avalanche in 4-0 win over Capitals

WASHINGTON — Nicolas Aube-Kubel and Darcy Kuemper know better than anyone else living in the nation’s capital what Nathan MacKinnon can do with a puck. They were witnesses to his brilliance for one season, the longest season of his career at that. The season he went coast-to-coast for a playoff…

The Denver Post

Avalanche allows 3 goals with fewer than 5 men on ice in overtime loss to Winnipeg Jets

DENVER — So maybe Colorado has some experimenting to do with its second, third and fourth lines. Maybe the penalty kill needs intense self-evaluation. Maybe the Avalanche lacks depth.

The Denver Post

Sean Keeler: All Hail Cale Makar, NHL MVP! Avalanche defender and Hart Trophy are destined to be together. Here’s why.

The great ones lead the scouting report. Cale Makar makes you rip the stupid thing up and start over from scratch.

WEKU

The NHL season starts today. Here are 4 storylines to follow as hockey begins

The Colorado Avalanche are looking to become hockey's third back-to-back champion in just eight years, while the Toronto Maple Leafs will try once again to break their five-decade Stanley Cup drought.

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