Author: Kate Shefte
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Darcy Kuemper, Colorado Avalanche blank Calgary Flames in first game without Gabriel Landeskog
DENVER — Through the first two months of 2022, the Colorado Avalanche were uncommonly healthy and wildly successful. Adversity rolled in again this week. Coach Jared Bednar said captain Gabriel Landeskog would have knee surgery Monday and the team hopes to have him back sometime in the final 22 regular-season games. From March 3-13, the…
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Avalanche captain Gabriel Landeskog to have knee surgery Monday
The Colorado Avalanche confirmed Saturday that captain Gabriel Landeskog will undergo knee surgery Monday. Multiple sources quoted Colorado coach Jared Bednar, who said it was a lingering issue and not related to Landeskog’s ACL. He’s set to miss time but the hope is the Avalanche will have their top-line winger back by the playoffs. More…
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‘Wasn’t fun. Wasn’t pretty.’: Avalanche’s Tyson Jost plays through pain on road swing
RALEIGH, N.C. – Tyson Jost’s upper-upper-body injury luck ran out. Jost has been wearing some fortified headgear. He was struck by a puck during a 4-3 overtime loss to the Calgary Flames on March 5. He said he’s been hit in the face with sticks, but never a puck. “It went off (Nicolas Aube-Kubel’s) shin…
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Former Colorado College star Jaccob Slavin talks hockey as he nears 500-game NHL mark
RALEIGH, N.C. – Erie native Jaccob Slavin played his 484th NHL game – all with the Carolina Hurricanes – on Thursday, a 2-0 win against the Colorado Avalanche. He’s a Hurricanes alternate captain and won the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy last season for sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct combined with playing ability. Slavin finished his two-year…
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Avalanche captain Gabriel Landeskog shares thoughts on officiating late in Colorado loss to Carolina Hurricanes
RALEIGH, N.C. – Colorado Avalanche captain Gabriel Landeskog’s night ended 51 seconds early, he said for yelling at the officials from the bench. He was ready to speak his piece after the game. “In 11 years I’ve never sat and talked about referees in a press conference, ever” Landeskog began Thursday following a 2-0 loss…
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Scoreless until late, Carolina Hurricanes take playoff-style win over Colorado Avalanche
RALEIGH, N.C. – When the leaders of the NHL’s East and West met Thursday night in North Carolina, each team took a turn as the best by a country mile. During the third period, no one gave an inch. Under pressure near the corner of the Avalanche bench, Carolina defenseman Ethan Bear threw a nonthreatening…
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Colorado Rockies hockey lives on – sort of – in New Jersey Devils
NEWARK, N.J. • The franchise is still active and the logo still in use, even if the history is hazy and McNichols Sports Arena is now a parking lot. The Colorado Rockies were once Denver’s National Hockey League team, never recording a winning season in their six years of existence from 1976 to 1982. The…
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Colorado Avalanche watch 3-goal lead unravel quickly in New Jersey
NEWARK, N.J. – The New Jersey Devils finished the New York Islanders’ work of the night before, erasing a three-goal lead to beat the Colorado Avalanche, 5-3, on Tuesday night at Prudential Center. The postgame consensus was it was one of the Avalanche’s poorer efforts. Forward Mikko Rantanen, who scored Tuesday, called the Devils the…
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Cale Makar rediscovers scoring touch as Colorado Avalanche edge New York Islanders
Defenseman Cale Makar had three points of significance Monday night as his Colorado Avalanche held back the New York Islanders, 5-4, at UBS Arena. Makar opened the scoring with his first goal since Jan. 28 against the Chicago Blackhawks, a 14-game drought. Despite taking more than a month off from goal-scoring, he still leads NHL…
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Plank, then play for Cheyenne Mountain ahead of 4A hockey championship game
The 4A state ice hockey championship is Tuesday, so no other option: Cheyenne Mountain’s weekly yoga session had to move up. “Get the jitters out before it really hits us that, wow, we’re playing in a state championship game,” junior forward Wyatt Furda said. “We love it.” Furda’s mother, Jen, leads the entire team for…