Colorado Avalanche surviving on points off Hurricanes, Blues
A tough road awaits the Avalanche in their 25 remaining games this season. The Avs currently sit in tenth place in the conference with 60 points, two points out of eighth place. They have played one more game than Calgary and Phoenix, who currently occupy ninth and eighth place. They have played two more games than the two teams directly behind them in the standings.
It is truly...
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Aaron Musick: The evoloution of Erik Johnson
This has been an article I've been writing for a while but because of the Denver Post's article by Mike Chambers, it felt like the right time.
When the Avalanche added a player like Erik Johnson to their roster late last year, there were some serious questions that had to be answered.
Was he a first round bust? Can he find his game again? Will he stop being so soft...
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Avalanche 4, Hurricanes 3, OT
Ryan O'Reilly scored on a slap shot with 1.2 seconds remaining in overtime and Jean-Sebastien Giguere stopped a season-high 39 shots in the Colorado Avalanche's 4-3 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes on Friday night.
Gabriel Landeskog, Milan Hejduk and Paul Stastny also scored for Colorado. The Avalanche have won two in a row since snapping a five-game skid.
The Hurricanes...
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Colorado Avalanche: Friday News and Notes
The Colorado Avalanche got a much needed win on Tuesday against the Chicago Blackhawks, sending the 'Hawks to their sixth straight loss, while snapping the Avs' five-game skid. The Avs came out and played a very good game all around. After allowing two goals, Giguere shut the door and was perfect from that point on. The Avsoffense finally came alive, netting five goals...
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Colorado Avalanche: O'Reilly The Factor in Avs Win
After a pretty evenly matched game in which the Carolina Hurricanes and Colorado Avalanche traded goals into a 3-3 regulation tie, Ryan O'Reilly, nicknamed "Factor" blasted a shot past goalie Cam Ward to send the Avs to victory with only 1.2 seconds left. O'Reilly had several chances before his game-winning goal, but had a game-high six shots and several quality...
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Hurricanes downed by Avalanche in overtime
DENVER (AP) -- Ryan O'Reilly scored on a slap shot with 1.2 seconds remaining in overtime and Jean-Sebastien Giguere stopped a season-high 39 shots in the Colorado Avalanche's 4-3 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes on Friday night.
Gabriel Landeskog, Milan Hejduk and Paul Stastny also scored for Colorado. The Avalanche have won two in a row since snapping a five-game skid...
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Blues 3, Avalanche 2, OT
Carlo Colaiacovo scored 3:18 into overtime to give the St. Louis Blues a 3-2 win over the Colorado Avalanche on Saturday night.
David Perron added two goals and an assist as the Blues won for the fourth time in five games and improved to 15-0-3 in their last 18 at home. St. Louis, which is among the NHL's best home teams at 23-3-4, has recorded at least one point in a franchise...
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The End of the Stastny Legacy
Before Joe Sakic, the greatest Quebec Nordique was Peter Stastny. Over his long career Sakic uprooted Stastny as the face of a franchise that moved to Colorado. But the allure of Rookie of the Year, Stastny, and the reunion with his brothers, Anton and Marian, has always been a story line for Colorado/Quebec.
The Stastny brothers, especially Anton and Peter, were the face of the...
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Avalanche Head into a Challenging Weekend Needing Points
The Colorado Avalanche and the Carolina Hurricanes will face off tonight at Pepsi Center for military appreciation night. The Hurricanes are last in the Eastern Conference, a disappointing placement for a young team that was hoping to be in the hunt. The Avalanche currently sit 12th in the Western Conference and are actually one point better than they were through the same number...
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Canucks 3, Avalanche 2, SO
Kevin Bieksa tied the game with 34.1 seconds remaining in regulation and Mason Raymond scored the lone goal in the shootout as the Vancouver Canucks rallied for a 3-2 win over the struggling Colorado Avalanche on Saturday.
Raymond sent the puck through the pads of Jean-Sebastien Giguere and Roberto Luongo stopped all three shots he faced for Vancouver, which ended the Avalanche...
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Improved Offense, Blues Win Again: 3-2 Over the Avalanche
With one fell swoop from Patrick Berglund and a deft tip from Carlo Colaiacovo finished a game that should have ended long, giving the St. Louis Blues a 3-2 overtime win over the Colorado Avalanche.
It was never a game St. Louis looked like losing, merely another that provided dominating attacking periods after one another only to be frustrated by a game goalie in Semyon Varlamov...
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Sam Gagner making a challenge to Paul Stastny's domain
We all know that Paul Stastny is master of the universe, but I mean, come on. Sam Gagner has to be making a push, right? Three signs that he is making a push to usurp Stastny's rule.1) See Above. That is his war cry, and associated battle charge. Stick out like a spear.2) In his last 5 games, Gagner has 8 goals and 7 assists (making a pace better than the entire Minnesota Wild...
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Aaron Musick: David Jones: should he stay or should he go?
The clash of ideas concerting David Jones: should he stay or should he go?
Two weeks ago, it was dead certain that Jones was on his way out of the Colorado Avalanche roster.
Jones, who recently has been benched for superstars like Kevin Porter, has found a groove again it seems scoring three goals his pas two games.
It is not just that he has scored, it is the way he has scored. Two o...
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Colorado Avalanche: Thoughts on the Tyson Barrie Promotion/Stefan Elliott Demotion
This morning, the Colorado Avalanche recalled defenseman Tyson Barrie from their American Hockey League affiliate, the Lake Erie Monsters and sent defenseman Stefan Elliott back down to Lake Erie. Both Barrie and Elliott are promising, young, puck-moving defensemen in the Avalanche organization. Both players were drafted by the Avs in 2009, the same draft that saw the Avs claim...
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Colorado Avalanche to debut Tyson Barrie against Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday
It may be merely an exchange of rookie defencemen for the Colorado Avalanche, but regardless Tyson Barrie is looking forward to making his calling count.
He’ll suit up for the Avs on Tuesday when they take on the Chicago Blackhawks.
From the Denver Post:
“Great kid with a lot of potential,” Avs defenseman Shane O’Brien said of Barrie, who was one of Colorado...
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NHL: Avalanche Warning --2/6/12
After a day off yesterday, in which the Avalanche players got to enjoy the Super Bowl like the rest of us (unless you're a Patriots fan), they took to the ice for practice today with a slightly new-look roster. Stefan Elliott is gone and in his place is Tyson Barrie, the 20-year-old defenseman who was enjoying a very successful season in Lake Erie before his call-up to Colorado...
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Hejduk scheduled to tie Foote in franchise games played
ST. LOUIS — No skate today for the Avalanche, which flew here immediately after last night’s 4-3 overtime victory over Carolina in Denver. No updates, really, other than the same guys who participated in last night’s warmups — including scratched defenseman Ryan Wilson — also just skated in warmups at Scottrade Center.
Assuming veteran winger Milan Hejduk...
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Carolina Hurricanes vs. Colorado Avalanche 2/10/12 Scoring Chances
The hockey gods giveth and they taketh away. I feel that phrase sums up tonight's game well as the Hurricanes suffered their second consecutive overtime loss and this time the game-winner goal came with less than two seconds left in overtime. To make matters worse, Carolina had a 38-28 even strength shot advantage and controlled this game for a good 40-some minutes but a few...
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Game 55 Preview: Hurricanes at Avalanche
Carolina Hurricanes (20-25-10) at Colorado Avalanche (27-25-3)Pepsi Center, 9 p.m.TV: FS-Carolinas, Altitude
The Hurricanes have faced the Western Conference only 10 times this year and have a middling record of 4-4-2 against those teams. Out of who they have faced in the Western Conference, the division they have had the most success against it he Northwest as they are 2-1-0 against...
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Duchene update; O’Reilly cements victory in deserving, dramatic fashion
Remarkable performance by Ryan O’Reilly in a very entertaining hockey game tonight at the Pepsi Center, where the Avalanche wins 4-3 on O’Reilly’s blast with 1.2 seconds remaining in overtime. I have an early flight to cover Saturday’s game at St. Louis, so I have to be quick here (I haven’t packed!).
Pretty sure I capture the spirit of the thing in...
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Avalanche Warning: Final Stretch
Denver Post writer Adrian Dater reported yesterday that third year center Matt Duchene is still out indefinitely with a knee injury. This is not the news the Avalanche were hoping for heading into the stretch run out of the All-Star break. The Avalanche’s 26-23-2 record is good for 54 points and ninth place in the Western Conference.
The Avalanche have 31 games remaining in their...
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Avalanche Warning: The Weekly Colorado Avs Report
Welcome to Avalanche Warning, my new weekly feature on the Northwest Division's Colorado Avalanche. Today, I will look at the week ahead for the Avalanche coming out of the All-Star break. The Avs should be a well-rested group after sending only Gabriel Landeskog to the all-star weekend and even he shouldn't be the worse for wear as he did not play in the All-Star Game...
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Mueller makes big return from concussion
Peter Mueller has been dealing with concussion issues for most of the past two seasons. Less than a week after returning to action with the Colorado Avalanche, he had a game he won't soon forget.
The right wing scored his first two goals of the season and had an assist in Colorado's 4-3 overtime win over Florida last Wednesday.
"It was almost somewhat surreal what...
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Kobasew Fined For Tripping
NEW YORK (February 6, 2012)—Colorado Avalanche forward Chuck Kobasew has been fined $2,500, the maximum allowed under the Collective Bargaining Agreement, for tripping Vancouver Canucks defenseman Dan Hamhuis in NHL Game No. 770 in Colorado on Saturday, Feb. 4, the National Hockey League’s Department of Player Safety announced today.
The incident occurred at 13:20 of...
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Aaron Musick: Now for something completely different
In their search to find some kind of spark plug, the Colorado Avalanche have sent Stefan Elliott back down to Lake Erie for some more seasoning.
Tyson Barrie has also been called up to replace him. Barrie and Elliott are both highly-touted defensive prospects but have several key differences. Elliott is a shoot-first defenseman in the mold of Brian Leetch or Dan Boyle while Barrie...
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