Earlier this month, THW's Mike Coll…
Pittsburgh PenguinsThe 2013 Colorado Avalanche season has mercifully come to an end. The season, as a whole, was definitely a disappointing one for the Avalanche, who had such high hopes at the start of the season. Finishing dead last in the Western Conference is not where this team should be, but there it is. Perhaps some ...
All true hockey fans have by now heard of Seth Jones. The young defenseman has rocketed up to the top of every major hockey scouting services’ rankings for the 2013 NHL entry draft. His skating ability and athleticism are positively electric, uncannily belying his tremendous size at 6’4″ 210 (and possibly not done growing). His ...
Here lies the 2013 Colorado Avalanche. With Detroit’s victory over the Nashville Predators, Sunday night, Colorado became the first team in the NHL this season to officially be eliminated from playoff contention. This season was supposed to be one filled with potential. One that would make the Avalanche faithful once again proud to don the ...
After striking Gold in the 2006 Olympic Games, Sweden was considered one of the favorites to come out on top once again in 2010. Unfortunately, they disappointed — finishing in just 5th place and failing to medal in the Vancouver Games. With many holdovers from their 2006 glory, most notably reigning Vezina Trophy winning goaltender ...
If I have learned one thing over the course of my 18 years of sports fandom it is that fans love to do two things: question all decisions made by their teams and complain about said decisions. The Colorado Avalanche kindly oblige us by allowing us to do both on a regular basis. Now that ...
The Colorado Avalanche have been hurt by the injury bug this season, but there is good news on this front. Gabriel Landeskog is now practicing and skating with the team, a huge step in the right direction of his return. So with Landeskog’s return becoming a much more realistic possibility, now one has to think ...
Concussions are nothing new in the NHL but players today are bigger, faster, and stronger than ever before and advances in equipment technology have made players seemingly fearless…
The Colorado Avalanche were already facing a tough road at the start of the season without having re-signed the team’s leading scorer from a season ago, Ryan O’Reilly. Things got a bit more difficult when Steve Downie went down with a torn ACL after the home opener against the Los Angeles Kings. Now, to make ...
It may have taken nearly 4 months to get the Fantasy Hockey talk going, but the time has finally come. I’m not here to tell you about the usual suspects (Crosby, Malkin, Ovechkin, Giroux, Stamkos, etc). The idea of this article is to help identify 10 players who are poised for a “Breakout” year. This ...
With the season just around the corner, NHL fans are just now getting back into the swing of following their favorite teams. Since the lockout took so much time, there might be many people out there who could use a little bit of reminding of the actions that happened with the Avalanche during the off-season. ...
