Posts About "Matt Calvert"
Avalanche Players Rave About Jared Bednar
February 8th, 2020 What a difference three years makes. Turn back the calendar to the end of the 2016-17 season. To say things in Colorado were not good wouldn't give justice to just how bad things were. The Avalanche suffered through a 60-loss season and a lot of drama. Most notably, the Matt Duchene situation was playing out. Talk about walking...
Grubauer Has 27 Saves, Avs Blank Sharks, 4-0
January 16th, 2020 DENVER — Philipp Grubauer made 27 saves for his first shutout of the season and the Colorado Avalanche got goals from four different players in a 4-0 win over the San Jose Sharks on Thursday night. It was Grubauer's third shutout since joining Colorado...
Will Healthy Avalanche Have Happy Holidays?
December 4th, 2019 Mikko Rantanen is back. Gabriel Landeskog is traveling with the team and may play on the road. Nathan MacKinnon is playing some of his best hockey ever. The top line is almost one hundred percent. Matt Calvert and Andre Burakovsky are nearing their returns. The Colorado Avalanche has managed to persevere through some major injuries...
Avalanche Weekly: Next Man Up
November 21st, 2019 The Colorado Avalanche continue to battle the injury bug as they took their technicolor show on the road this past week. Heading off on a five-game, 11-day road swing, the team faced a fair amount of adversity as the scrappy crew fought their way through the first part of the trip. They managed to dig deep as the “next man up”...
NHL GMs to Re-Examine Skate-in-the-Air Offside at March Meeting
November 19th, 2019 TORONTO — The NHL is going to take another run at tweaking its offside rule. The league's general managers shot down a proposed change 2 1/2 years ago that would have seen an attacking player deemed onside if his skate was in the air above the blue line — but not on the ice — when the puck entered the offensive...
Kadri, Calvert Score Twice, Avalanche Beat Golden Knights 6-1
October 25th, 2019 LAS VEGAS — Nazem Kadri and Matt Calvert each scored twice, Pierre-Edouard Bellemare had a goal and two assists against his former team and the Colorado Avalanche beat the Vegas Golden Knights 6-1 on Friday. Cale Makar also scored for the Avalanche, who improved to 8-1-1. In a matinee on the Las Vegas Strip on the observance of...
Deep Flames Battle Top-Heavy Avalanche
April 11th, 2019 The Calgary Flames had a regular season for the ages in 2018-19, winning 50 games for the second time in franchise history and finishing second overall. Their reward for their strength and consistency is a date with the red-hot Colorado Avalanche, who won a fevered battle for the final Western Conference wild card playoff...
How the Avalanche Cleared Dead Wood
July 28th, 2018 The Colorado Avalanche have embraced their namesake to clear away their old business model and shift their approach to the salary cap in order to build a new foundation for future success. While the free agent signings of Matt Calvert and Ian Cole raised a few questions, the Avalanche continued their more recent trend towards...
Jets Bracing for Turbulence in the Central
July 5th, 2018 The Central Division was already the toughest division in the entire NHL last year, but it may be even tougher next year given the events of the past few days. With July 1 comes free agent frenzy, the day a myriad of talented players hit the open market and ink with new teams. While the Jets didn't welcome any big-time new players to...
Penguins Need to Trade Pieces to Get Pieces
June 16th, 2018 The Pittsburgh Penguins are only a few depth pieces away from becoming the favorites to throw another parade next June. Still, for a team with a surprisingly stable roster, there are a lot of questions as we enter the heart of the NHL offseason. John Tavares, John Carlson, and James van Riemsdyk headline this year’s free agent...
Big Game Matt Calvert Embodies Blue Jackets' Way
April 16th, 2018 The Columbus Blue Jackets are full of wonderful stories these days. Everywhere you look up and down their lineup, players at different points in their career are making a major impact. Collectively, they have jumped on the Washington Capitals by winning two straight from them at Capital One Arena. Game 3 and the momentum all shift to...
Columbus Blue Jackets' Deadline Expectations
February 20th, 2018 We are now under a week until the NHL trade deadline. For the Columbus Blue Jackets, it's a time of trying to figure out how to best use this time. Do they buy? Do they sell? Can they do both? We are here to try to piece this puzzle together for you. This isn't an easy puzzle to figure out. The Blue Jackets sit just a single point...
Blue Jackets 3 Takeaways: Lopsided Losses, Failing Forwards & Bjorkstrand
December 13th, 2017 This season, The Hockey Writers will have a recurring “Three Takeaways” feature after every Columbus Blue Jackets matchup, meant to serve as postgame quick hits. 1) Lopsided Blue Jackets Losses A rare occurrence this season: the Columbus Blue Jackets on the wrong side of lopsided losses. Even rarer? Forfeiting seven goals. The last...
