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HISTORICAL FACTS: 2 - The Untold Story

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…

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Avalanche beat Islanders on Evan Rodrigues’ shootout goal against unflappable Ilya Sorokin

The Avalanche’s season series with the Islanders was a story of opposites.

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Artturi Lehkonen’s shorthanded redemption helps Avalanche to tense win over Flyers

What goes around doesn’t always come around in the divine art of puck luck, but redemption worked in eerily parallel ways for Artturi Lehkonen on Tuesday night.

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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.”

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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…

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Cale Makar scores wonky goal in Avalanche’s 4-1 win over 'really deep' Carolina Hurricanes

DENVER — Cale Makar’s 50th career goal defied physics.

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Slow start continues for Avalanche in blown 3-0 lead to New York Islanders

ELMONT, N.Y. — Just when one problem seemed to be solved for the Colorado Avalanche, the headache multiplied instead.

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‘Soft with the puck’: Just how rare was Avalanche’s shutout loss to New Jersey?

NEWARK, N.J. — In the Avalanche’s least inspiring stretches early this season, the immediate temptation might be to label any lethargy as championship hangover. Colorado did, after all, have the shortest offseason recharge in the NHL.

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There’s a Gabriel Landeskog-sized hole on Avs roster for three months. Who steps up to fill it?

If Nathan MacKinnon represents the heart, then Gabriel Landeskog is the Avalanche’s soul and spine, the last link in a mighty chain that finally dragged Lord Stanley’s Cup to its rightful plinth a mile high.

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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.

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Mark Kiszla: Tim Connelly walked away from Denver. Michael Malone is itching to beat his old basketball brother.

Until Tim Connelly scratched a seven-year itch and abruptly ended a beautiful relationship with Michael Malone to take the money in Minnesota, they were inseparable basketball brothers, a front-office exec and fiery coach joined at the hip in the quest to make the Nuggets a legit championship contender.

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Ryan O’Halloran: For Nathan MacKinnon, Jared Bednar, Joe Sakic, winning Stanley Cup caps long journey

TAMPA, Fla. — One by one, as if it was choreographed weeks ago, all 28 players and each member of the coaching, training and equipment staffs and front office took their turn with the Stanley Cup here late Sunday night.

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Avalanche dethrone Lightning to win Stanley Cup for 3rd time

Behind a goal and an assist from Nathan MacKinnon, the Avalanche won the Stanley Cup for the third time in franchise history and first in more than two decades by beating the Lightning 2-1 in Game 6.

Chicago Sun-Times

Colorado Avalanche beat Tampa Bay to clinch Stanley Cup

TAMPA, Fla. — The NHL’s worst team only five years ago, the Avalanche completed its journey to the top of the hockey world Sunday night, defeating the Tampa Bay Lightning 2-1 to win the Stanley Cup for the first time in 21 years.

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The Independent UK

Avalanche dethrone Lightning to win Stanley Cup for 3rd time

The Colorado Avalanche have won the Stanley Cup after dethroning the two-time defending champion Tampa Bay Lightning

Tribune News Service

Lightning’s Brayden Point unlikely to play tonight in Stanley Cup final Game 6

TAMPA, Fla. — The Lightning will try to prolong their season once again without Brayden Point.

Los Angeles Times

Helene Elliott: For a 208th draft pick, Ondrej Palat is becoming quite the Stanley Cup hero

DENVER — Lightning coach Jon Cooper clearly remembers the first time he saw winger Ondrej Palat.

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Ryan O’Halloran: Darcy Kuemper’s bounce-back effort helps put team one win from Stanley Cup

Darcy Kuemper, stopper of Tampa Bay Lightning shots.

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Here's why the Kraken and other NHL teams are pulling goalies earlier

SEATTLE — It's 2:19. Do you know where your goalie is?

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John Romano: Guess which team in the Stanley Cup final has faith in its goalie?

TAMPA, Fla. — If faith can win you a hockey game, then the Lightning may have already pulled even in the Stanley Cup final.

The Guardian - US

Avalanche put seven past Lightning to move within two wins of Stanley Cup

Andrei Vasilevskiy and Tampa Bay were thumped 7-0 by Colorado, losing not only the game but their cool and their mojo in the process.

Chicago Sun-Times

Avalanche beat Lightning in OT to open Stanley Cup Final

The Avalanche penalty kill came up clutch against the Lightning, and Andre Burakovsky scored in overtime for the 4-3 victory.

Tribune News Service

Colorado Avalanche embracing test to beat the best

There will be no asterisks on the Stanley Cup this season.

The Denver Post

Avalanche goalie Darcy Kuemper 100% for Stanley Cup Final; forwards Nazem Kadri and Andrew Cogliano not ruled out

DENVER — The Avalanche injury update on Thursday was perhaps as good of news as fans could have hoped.

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Mark Kiszla: Avalanche gets first shot at Stanley Cup since 2001, when Joe Sakic and Patrick Roy were kings of hockey universe

EDMONTON, Alberta — Wearing a smile nearly as big as when he handed the Stanley Cup to Ray Bourque in 2001, Joe Sakic emerged from the Colorado locker room after Avs’ 6-5 victory against Edmonton. “It’s fun. But we’re not done,” Sakic told me Monday. “We need four more wins.”

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