We folks here at Last Word provide all the latest and greatest from the 2024 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs. Now is time for our preview and prediction of the Colorado Avalanche and Dallas Stars second round series.
This Colorado Avalanche team looks good. Really good. If you have plans for late May or early June, you might want to delay them a little longer, because this team might still be going at that point.
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 Winnipeg Jets for the Colorado Avalanche.
If you let the Colorado Avalanche start rolling, you’re in trouble, and right now, the Winnipeg Jets don’t seem to have an answer for them. The Avalanche have the Jets on the brink of elimination, and if you ask me, they could have very easily swept this series.
You can’t give this Colorado Avalanche team an inch, because they’ll take a mile. That’s exactly what happened in the third period of Game Three. It’s a far cry from the team the Avalanche put on the ice against the Seattle Kraken in the postseason last year.
You’re not going to get any concrete information out of Colorado Avalanche head coach Jared Bednar when the playoffs roll around. The second Colorado finished their regular season, he went into lockdown mode.
The Colorado Avalanche are almost certainly unhappy with their opening game performance in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Colorado fell to the Winnipeg Jets in Game 1 on Sunday night.
Here are four of the biggest potential X factors for the Western Conference in this year's first round.
Colorado Avalanche captain Gabriel Landeskog is missing his second straight regular season as he is recovering from a knee cartilage replacement he had last May, and head coach Jared Bednar said he is “not close” to returning with the Stanley Cup Playoffs approaching, according to theScore.
It’s weird that the Colorado Avalanche suddenly have a lot of time to practice, but with the schedule the way it is, Jared Bednar has got some time to whip his team into shape.
Jared Bednar and the rest of the Avalanche coaching staff will be watching a lot of Winnipeg Jets video over the next week, and no, they will not be burning the tape from Saturday’s game.
Are the Dallas Stars a wagon? At least one person thinks so: Colorado Avalanche head coach Jared Bednar. In a battle of the Western Conference’s two best teams, it was the Stars that came out on top on Sunday night, beating the Avs 7-4 to solidify their position at the top of the Central Division.
The Colorado Avalanche will play without Mikko Rantanen again on Tuesday night against the Minnesota Wild, but there were signs of progress. Rantanen skated by himself for about 30 minutes today, mostly doing stick-handling and shooting work.
The Colorado Avalanche are probably going to put in a request for the league to review if Nathan MacKinnon deserves an assist on Colorado’s game-tying goal, but they don’t expect it to change.
You’re supposed to have a little bit more energy after a day off, right? Apparently that’s not always the case for the Colorado Avalanche. After Sunday’s emotional comeback win against the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Avalanche were given a full day off on Monday.
Nathan MacKinnon gets all the headlines in Colorado, and for good reason, but the Avalanche have another star that’s on fire at the moment. Mikko Rantanen scored two more goals on Friday night, giving him eight goals in his last five games.
Colorado Avalanche forward Logan O'Connor will undergo season-ending hip surgery later this week, coach Jared Bednar told reporters on Sunday. Bednar could not say whether O'Connor will be recovered by the start of training camp for the 2024-25 season.
Colorado Avalanche head coach Jared Bednar confirmed on Sunday that forward Logan O’Connor will undergo hip surgery and be forced to miss the rest of the 2023-24 season.
The Colorado Avalanche expect defenseman Josh Manson will be ready for the team’s season opener on Oct. 11 in Los Angeles; however, they also confirmed backup goaltender Pavel Francouz will begin the season on the shelf.
The Colorado Avalanche have signed head coach Jared Bednar to a three-year contract extension beginning with the 2023–24 season, the club announced Tuesday.
The penalty set up a four-on-three power play for the Lightning, and they took advantage with a Nikita Kucherov goal that gave the team a 2-1 lead.
Colorado Avalanche coach Jared Bednar has seen the complaints that a too many men on the ice penalty wasn't called on the team's overtime goal against the Tampa Bay Lightning on Wednesday and he doesn't agree.
Avalanche goaltender Darcy Kuemper did not participate in his team’s optional practice on Wednesday, one day after leaving Game 1 of the Western Conference Final with an “upper-body” injury.
While losing the head coach is a big blow, it’s Francouz’s absence that is the real headline for the Avalanche. The backup goaltender was expected to carry a steady load this season to help new starter Darcy Kuemper.
Colorado coach Jared Bednar has been cleared to work Game 6 following a COVID-19 scare that involved Bednar producing an irregular test result.
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