Valeri Nichushkin of the Colorado Avalanche has re-entered the NHL/NHLPA Player Assistance following a failed drug test. Nichuskin has scored nine goals in the 2024 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs and leaves his team down against the Dallas Stars where they look to clinch a spot in the Western Conference finals.
Following a frustrating 5-1 loss to the Dallas Stars on Monday night (Apr. 13), the Colorado Avalanche find themselves down 3-1 in their Western Conference second-round series.
Monday went differently than how the Colorado Avalanche wanted it to. A pivotal Game 4 can see a series tied at two apiece or lead to a team being down 3-1 and having to mount a comeback.
Most teams depend on their star players to get them out of slumps, and the Colorado Avalanche are no different. Nathan MacKinnon has been held to just one assist over the last three games, all of which his team has lost.
DENVER – Down two games to one in the second round of the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs, the Colorado Avalanche were optimistic heading into Game 4 against the Dallas Stars on Monday.
The Colorado Avalanche are in some trouble. After dropping two straight to fall behind 2-1 in their second-round series against the Dallas Stars, the Avs were dealt massive blows.
It’s time for playoff plus/minus! As with every game, you take the good with the bad, so time to take a look at the pluses and the minuses in Game Four against the Dallas Stars for the Colorado Avalanche.
Monday was a pretty rough day for the Colorado Avalanche. They found out two of their better players wouldn’t be able to suit up for their pivotal Game 4 shortly before the puck was supposed to drop.
The Colorado Avalanche are on the verge of elimination for the first time in the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs after the team played maybe the worst game of its Western Conference second-round series against the Dallas Stars at Ball Arena on Monday night.
Valeri Nichushkin will once again be unavailable to the Colorado Avalanche during the playoffs. Nichushkin has entered Stage 3 of the NHL/NHLPA Player Assistance Program.
Morale for the Colorado Avalanche was pretty low on Monday night as they received bad news right before game four against the Dallas Stars. Valerie Nichushkin was going to be entering Stage 3 of the NHL/NHLPA Player Assistance Program and receive a six-month suspension.
So much happened to the Colorado Avalanche on Monday that the day seemed at least 48 hours long. It all started off so well. The Avalanche were set to get Jonathan Drouin back in their lineup, and hope had been restored that they could tie this series up.
You would be shocked too if you received the news that the Colorado Avalanche received prior to Game Four. Losing one of your best players not just for one game, but for at least six months?
In a must-win game, the Colorado Avalanche laid an egg. A really big one. Hours after learning that the team had lost Valeri Nichushkin to a six month suspension, the Avalanche, as their head coach described it, looked “frozen” in the first period, getting outshot 16-2 in front of their home crowd and generally looking awful.
Nobody likes Mondays, but this one was especially bad for the Colorado Avalanche. Hours after being informed by the NHL that one of their most productive players, Valeri Nichushkin, was suspended for six months, they fell to the Dallas Stars 5-1 in Game 4 of their second-round series.
Wyatt Johnston celebrated his 21st birthday a day early by doing something that only Wayne Gretzky had done before on Monday night.
Not much good at all for the Colorado Avalanche on and off the ice. A dreadful downfall for the Colorado Avalanche was shown to the world. In an outright ugly performance, the Avs fell 5-1 to the Dallas Stars in Game Four.
Just a short time after the NHL/NHLPA announced that Colorado Avalanche forward Val Nichushkin has entered the NHL’s Player Assistance Program, the Avs will now also be losing one of their top defenseman, Devon Toews.
The Colorado Avalanche are losing their leading playoff goal scorer.
We have a close-out game in New York and basically a must-win game in Colorado headlining tonight's playoff NHL action. We're drawn to the home teams leading the scoring charge this evening.
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