The Colorado Avalanche’s season came to a close on Friday (May 17), eliminated by an overtime goal from a former fan favorite in Denver. It was Matt Duchene’s only goal of the series, pushing the Dallas Stars past the Avs and into the Western Conference Final.
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.
In case you didn’t already know, Avalanche superstar Nathan MacKinnon made it clear that he’s never going to be okay with losing. The 29 year old superstar wasn’t quite saying the same things he said back in 2021 when his team lost to the Vegas Golden Knights in the second round, but he wasn’t that far off.
The Colorado Avalanche fought as hard as they could and dragged the season out as long as possible. As they turned everything around in game five, but it was a battle of attrition in game six.
DENVER — No matter how many years you’re a part of this — how many times you lose in the postseason, the sudden shock of being eliminated never gets easy.
I have a lot of thoughts running through my very tired head after the Colorado Avalanche fell in overtime to the Dallas Stars. Dallas had and has young guys on cheap contracts that are already difference makers for them.
The season has come to an end for the Colorado Avalanche, and it comes at the hands of one of their former stars. Matt Duchene, who asked out back in 2017 and eventually got his wish, finished the game off in double overtime, putting a rebound past an outstretched Alexandar Georgiev and giving the Stars the 2-1 victory over Colorado.
It took a while, but the Dallas Stars are headed to the Western Conference Final for the second season in a row.
Game 6 represents a brand new life for the Avalanche. Like a fresh Colorado morning snowfall not yet trampled by the kiddos running to school, the Ball
Quite literally every statistic you look up this postseason would seem to indicate Mikko Rantanen is having one heck of a playoff run. With the big winger on the ice, the Avalanche are dominating the puck, controlling 62.47% of the shot attempts.
The Colorado Avalanche are used to the “next man up” mentality and have been all season. That won’t change for Game Six on Friday night. Yakov Trenin, who left Game Five in the first period, will not be available to play for the Avalanche.
We should really clean things up on the ice after yesterday's dud, and we're back to the plus-money well to do just that. Florida and Dallas are looking to close things out and both move on to their second-straight Conference Final appearances.
There are two Stanley Cup Playoffs Second Round games on the slate Friday, and anytime goal-scorer odds for players from each matchup are listed below.
For the first time in a very, very long time, the Colorado Avalanche have a late first round pick that they have every reason to be very excited about.
When Casey Mittelstadt was traded to the Colorado Avalanche in March, it was met with a load of scrutiny and confusion. And why wouldn’t it be? Colorado
Colorado Avalanche defenseman Cale Makar is one of the best players in the NHL at his position and he reminded everyone of that on Wednesday night. With his team facing elimination in their Second Round series against the Dallas Stars, Makar showed up in a big way.
“I think we have a lot of season left.” Avalanche superstar Nathan MacKinnon told ESPN post-game. He might just be right. With the season on the line and coming from their most emotional and worst game of the year, the Avalanche showed resilience Wednesday night in Dallas to win Game 5.
The Colorado Avalanche got two goals from Cale Makar to take Game 5 from the Dallas Stars and fend off elimination in their NHL playoff series. The Stars will take a 3-2 lead when the two teams head back to Colorado for Game 6 of their series on Friday, May 17.
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.
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.
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