When he played in Montreal, Artturi Lehkonen wasn’t seen as an offensive player. He scored 18 goals in his first NHL season, which is no mean feat… But after that, he often found himself in a defensive role, so he couldn’t showcase his skills.
Aarif Deen breaks down the Avs’ five-game series victory over the Winnipeg Jets. He touches on the bounceback from Alexandar Georgiev, Valeri Nichushkin’s scoring, Artturi Lehkonen’s importance and roster depth.
Artturi Lehkonen showed promising signs of becoming a bonafide top-six scoring winger after an 18-goal rookie season with the Montreal Canadiens in 2016-17.
The Winnipeg Jets were facing elimination for the first time in the series against the Colorado Avalanche. It was time that they had to step up and Colorado did not step back at all themselves.
What a gem Joe Sakic, President of the Colorado Avalanche, found in Artturi Lehkonen. Since being traded to the Avalanche from the Montreal Canadiens in 2022, he has fit right in with this team.
In the playoffs, any means is good for motivation. We often see clubs counting the remaining victories to lift the Stanley Cup after a game, a tradition that has taken root in many NHL dressing rooms.
Yes, this is a team full of superstars, but what made the Colorado Avalanche so dangerous during the 2022 Stanley Cup run was the duo of Artturi Lehkonen and Valeri Nichushkin.
Valeri Nichushkin got the hat trick on Sunday but Cale Makar was the difference for the Colorado Avalanche.
Colorado Avalanche left winger Artturi Lehkonen has turned into a goal-scoring machine this postseason.
The Western Conference playoffs are very tight this year. All four series in this conference were 2-1 in favor of one team, prior to Sunday’s games. This afternoon, we were treated to Game 4 between the Colorado Avalanche and the Winnipeg Jets.
YB's Griffin Carroll went 2-0 again yesterday on his NHL picks, a clean 6-0 over the past three days. Let's just continue to win hockey props, eh?
And how do you like your series? At the moment, we’re enjoying tighter series in the West than in the East. True, only two series have featured two games in the West, but those series are 1-1.
We split our plus-money prop looks yesterday, and we'll aim to do one better with two more looks on the ice tonight. There's plenty of action, but we've aimed to follow a pair of home teams in games that matter.
Artturi Lehkonen scored with 0.5 seconds left in overtime and Sean Walker scored two goals as the visiting Colorado Avalanche won their sixth consecutive game 3-2 over the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday night.
The Colorado Avalanche got a glimpse of what a fully healthy lineup could look like for them on Saturday night, and I think they’re going to be very happy with what they saw.
The Colorado Avalanche were simply glad to have Artturi Lehkonen back playing this season. His recent performances have proven he’s getting back to his old self again.
Chasing improved positions in their respective conference standings, the Colorado Avalanche and Tampa Bay Lightning are coming off impressive road wins.
The Avalanche will activate winger Artturi Lehkonen off long-term injured reserve before Wednesday's game against the Capitals.
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 Philadelphia Flyers for the Colorado Avalanche.
The most recent update on Colorado Avalanche forward Artturi Lehkonen from the team was that he was set to miss “weeks” after a scary fall into the boards last week against the Seattle Kraken.
The Colorado Avalanche finds themselves down a pair of forwards.
Lehkonen, 28, suffered the injury midway through Thursday’s game against the Kraken when he went crashing head first into the boards after a collision with Seattle defenseman Jamie Oleksiak.
Colorado Avalanche forward Artturi Lehkonen left Thursday night’s game against the Seattle Kraken following a scary collision with Kraken defenseman Jamie Oleksiak that sent Lehkonen crashing head-first into the boards.
Lehkonen now joins Gabriel Landeskog, Erik Johnson and Darren Helm on the Avalanche injured reserve.
The Montreal Canadiens are certainly going to be sellers come trade deadline time. The question is which players they’re going to sell off and which ones they’re going to keep in the fold to build around.
Following the season-ending injury to Sammy Blais, the Rangers are interested in Canadiens winger Artturi Lehkonen.
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