Two recent Colorado Avalanche players have gotten official titles in the front office for the organization. Andrew Cogliano and Pavel Francouz, two members of the 2022 Stanley Cup winning team, have moved on to the next chapter of their careers.
Nathan MacKinnon never thought he’d win the Hart Trophy. I’m not sure why. Has he not seen himself play hockey? On Thursday night, MacKinnon became the second Avalanche player to win both the Hart Trophy and Ted Lindsay Award in the same season, matching what Joe Sakic did back in 2001.
In today’s NHL rumors rundown, Andrew Cogliano has announced his retirement. Meanwhile, the Toronto Maple Leafs have to make decisions on Mitch Marner and Mark Giordano but have elected to move on from Ilya Samsonov.
The offseason has arrived for all but the two teams who are still taking part in the playoffs. For the rest, it’s time to examine what they will need to accomplish over the coming months. Next up is a look at Colorado.
Everyone loves a good veteran in their locker room, and the Colorado Avalanche had not one, but two elder statesmen (in NHL terms) as regulars on their team last year.
As with every game, you take the good with the bad, so time to take a look at the pluses and the minuses in the game against the Edmonton Oilers for the Colorado Avalanche.
There is a very, very real chance that the Colorado Avalanche and Dallas Stars will meet in round one of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. That is not lost on some of the veterans in the Colorado locker room.
Andrew Cogliano and Nathan MacKinnon scored 49 seconds apart in a three-goal second period, Alexandar Georgiev had 33 saves, and the Colorado Avalanche beat the scuffling Dallas Stars 5-1 in Denver on Tuesday night.
Continuing along with Oilersnation’s top stories of 2023, at No. 13, we have some violence between former Oilers teammates. During Game 6 of last year’s first-round playoff series between the Seattle Kraken and Colorado Avalanche, Jordan Eberle drilled Andrew Cogliano into the boards with a hit from behind.
Colorado Avalanche forwards Logan O’Connor and Andrew Cogliano are very close. In fact, given how they’re usually connected at the hip on the ice, you might think they’re long lost relatives.
Andrew Cogliano suffered a fractured neck as a result of a dangerous hit from Kraken forward Jordan Eberle on Friday night. The news of that injury is jarring enough, but what is even more more jarring is the fact Cogliano somehow returned to the game in the third period.