Avalanche Rumors & News

Denver Post "There’s a chance — albeit a very small one — that the Avalanche will have the fourth overall pick for the second consecutive NHL draft. The thing is, Colorado won’t know if it has that selection until the Ottawa Senators are on the clock with the fourth..." June 13

Pro Hockey Talk "Colorado Avalanche defenseman Samuel Girard was involved in a car accident in Quebec over the weekend, according to RDS. Thankfully, the 20-year-old didn’t suffer a serious injury. The one-car accident occurred on Route 169 in Quebec, after Girard fell asleep at..." June 12

BSN Denver "As the mania from the Stanley Cup Finals recedes and Alexander Ovechkin continues on the world’s greatest celebratory bender, the focus of the hockey calendar starts to shift to awards season, the NHL draft and, on July 1, the start of free agency. The Colorado Avalanche has..." June 12

Pro Hockey Rumors "Key Restricted Free Agents: F Matthew Nieto — The 25-year-old, who was picked up off of waivers from the San Jose Sharks has found a home in Colorado after the team rewarded him a year ago with a $1MM contract as a restricted free agent, posting a career high in goals with 15 and forcing..." June 10

The Score "The Vegas Golden Knights fell just short of taking home the 2018 Stanley Cup title in the club's inaugural season, but that isn't getting in the way of hometown oddsmakers naming the Knights as the second favorite to take home the 2019 crown. Bookmakers in Vegas have..." June 08

The Score "NHL deputy commissioner and chief legal officer Bill Daly confirmed during a press conference Monday that the salary cap for the 2018-2019 season is projected to be around $80 million, up from $75 million this season. A set number for next season has not yet been agreed upon..." May 29

Pro Hockey Talk "The NHL has already announced that the Smart Puck era is quickly approaching, which is exciting news for hockey fans all over the globe. The league is planning on having this added technology at their disposal for the start of the 2019-20 season, but there’s a chance that we..." May 24

Denver Post "Forward Gabriel Bourque has been re-signed by the Colorado Avalancheon a one-year deal, the team announced Thursday. Bourque, a fifth-round selection in the 2009 draft by Nashville, recorded five goals and six assists for the Avalanche in 58 regular-season games and scored twice..." May 24

NHL.com "Mikko Rantanen knows he and the Colorado Avalanche took significant steps this season. But the 21-year-old forward said he has room for improvement in all aspects of his game. "I was healthy the whole year and I was lucky to play with really good players," said Rantanen, who..." May 19

Pro Hockey Rumors "After re-signing Mark Barberio and Mark Alt recently, the Colorado Avalanche aren’t done bringing back their suddenly deep defensive unit. Adrian Dater of BSN Denver reports that they also intend on re-signing Patrik Nemeth, and that talks have already begun between the two sides. Dater..." May 18

Sportsnet "The Colorado Avalanche have signed defenceman Mark Barberio to a two-year contract worth $1.45 million per season. Barberio had three goals and 13 points in 46 games with the Avalanche this past season. May 15

Pro Hockey Rumors "Though there is still bound to be speculation over a return to the NHL this summer, Nova Sport in the Czech Republic is reporting that Jaromir Jagr has agreed to return as a player for Kladno, the Czech team he owns. There apparently had been interest from the DEL in..." May 15

Sportsnet "Kyle Dubas was named general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs Friday, yet less than one year ago the possibility of him leaving the organization briefly arose. In May of 2017, the Colorado Avalanche asked and received permission from the Maple Leafs to talk with the then-assistant GM about a..." May 11

Denver Post "The Colorado Avalanche on Tuesday signed forward Igor Shvyrev to a three-year, entry-level contract. Shvyrev, 19, was selected by the Avs in the fifth round (125th overall) of the 2017 NHL draft. The 6-foot-1, 192-pound center recorded 17 points (five goals and 12 assists) in 10 games with..." May 08

CBS Sports "Francouz signed a one-year contract with Colorado on Wednesday. Francouz will be coming to North America for the first time in his career, having spent the past three season playing in the KHL. In 37 outings this year, the netminder posted a 17-11-5 record with a 1.81 GAA." May 02

Ottawa Sun "The Ottawa Senators suffered a tough loss to start their off-season Saturday night. But the Senators believe they’ll be just fine, even though they won’t have a chance at selecting Swedish sensation Rasmus Dahlin, who is the top-ranked prospect. After finishing 30th overall during the..." April 29

Sportsnet "The NHL announced the three finalists for the Hart Trophy on Friday, awarded “to the player judged to be the most valuable to his team.” This year’s finalists are New Jersey’s Taylor Hall, Los Angeles’s Anze Kopitar and Colorado’s Nathan MacKinnon. Recording 41 more points than his next..." April 28

Sportsnet "Edmonton Oilers forward Connor McDavid, Colorado Avalanche forward Nathan MacKinnon and New Jersey Devils forward Taylor Hall have been named finalists for the Ted Lindsay Award. The award is given to “the most outstanding player in the NHL,” as voted on by his peers. McDavid, 21, won the..." April 26

Denver Post "Question: Is free agent John Tavares a possibility or pipe dream for the Avalanche? Kiz: Six NHL playoff games. Heady stuff. The Avs poured six shots of bourbon, set ’em on on the bar, and the party was back in Denver. I like it, I love it, I want some more of it. So how does Colorado become a..." April 25

Pro Hockey Rumors "Patrick Roy’s exit from the Colorado Avalanche was anything but smooth, resigning his post as head coach less than two months before the 2016-17 season began. The club moved on to Jared Bednar, who eventually turned them around in year two and took them to the playoffs. Now, Roy will return to..." April 25

CBS Denver "Colorado Avalanche Executive Vice President/General Manager Joe Sakic addressed the media on Monday to close out the 2017-2018 season. The big news was the announcement of a one-year extension for head coach Jared Bednar. The Avs and Bednar initially agreed to a three-year deal to star the..." April 23

New York Post "Rule 48.1 splits hairs so that it remains legal to crack skulls. An overstatement? Well, of course, except the NHL and essentially all of its stake-holders are so fearful that banning all blows to the head would all but eliminate the little hitting that remains in the game, they are willing to..." April 23

The Score "P.K. Subban had nothing but kind words for Nathan MacKinnon after their first-round playoff series ended Sunday night. The Nashville Predators defenseman gave a long answer lauding the Colorado Avalanche forward after the Predators' 5-0 victory that eliminated the Avalanche in Game 6. "You..." April 23

NHL.com "Shortly after the Colorado Avalanche rallied to defeat the Nashville Predators 2-1 in Game 5 of the Western Conference First Round on Friday, their captain, Gabriel Landeskog, was already looking ahead. "No doubt this one feels good," Landeskog said. "But we've got a lot of work to do." The..." April 22

NHL.com "Ask the Colorado Avalanche to describe forward Blake Comeau, and one word comes up often: calm. Comeau isn't loud and he's not the most talkative player in the room. But when the Avalanche need to relax frazzled nerves, he's the player they look to do it. Comeau has two goals against the..." April 21

The Score "Bryan Little wasn't going to spend too much time celebrating the first playoff series win in franchise history. The Winnipeg Jets center said it was definitely nice to get the series win over Minnesota, but they're looking forward to continuing the run, and apparently Little knows their next..." April 21

Denver Post "Third-string goalie Andrew Hammond, who shut out the Predators in the third period of Game 4 after coming in for an injured Jonathan Bernier, will start Friday night’s critical Game 5 in Nashville. Coach Jared Bednar made the announcement Thursday morning, saying that Bernier’s lower-body..." April 19

Tennessean "The NHL Department of Player Safety on Thursday announced that Predators forward Ryan Hartman will receive a hearing for an illegal check to the head to Colorado Avalanche forward Carl Soderberg. " April 19

NHL.com "The Colorado Avalanche dropped Game 4 of its first round series against the Nashville Predators in the Stanley Cup Playoffs by a 3-2 score. Here is what Avs head coach Jared Bednar had to say afterward in his postgame news conference. Colorado Head Coach Jared Bednar On the third..." April 19

USA Today "Nashville Predators defenseman P.K. Subban was called for holding late in the second period of Monday’s playoff game against the Colorado Avalanche. Apparently, both refs missed the blindside punch Subban appeared to throw that caught Avs forward Nathan MacKinnon up high. MacKinnon actually got..." April 17

The Score "Colorado Avalanche defenseman Samuel Girard will not play in Game 2 against the Nashville Predators due to an upper-body injury, the team announced." April 14

NHL.com "The Colorado Avalanche couldn't have played much better for the first two periods of their 5-2 loss to the Nashville Predators in Game 1 of the Western Conference First Round on Thursday. They were aggressive, taking a 1-0 lead on defenseman Nikita Zadorov's goal at 6:36 of the first period...." April 13

Sportsnet "If the one-game suspension given to Drew Doughty after Game 1 of the LA-Vegas series was to set a precedent, then there were a few players who should’ve been under review for supplementary discipline after the second night of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Tom Wilson escaped punishment for his check..." April 13

Pro Hockey Talk "Technically speaking, NHL players only get paid for the 82-game regular season, aside from the pocket change that comes from certain bonuses for playoff wins. In reality, a player can make a living off of a magical postseason run or two. A strong couple of months could end up being costly in..." April 11

Awful Announcing "The NHL announced the broadcast schedule for the opening round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs Sunday night, offering us a look at how NBCUniversal will shuffle the various series across its numerous networks. As usual, many games will air on NBCSN, others will appear on CNBC, others on USA, a handful..." April 09

NHL.com "For the Colorado Avalanche, there was nowhere to go but up after they finished with an NHL-worst 48 points (22-56-4) last season. This season the Avalanche, one of the youngest teams in the League with an average age of 25, started winning and gaining confidence. Now they're going to the..." April 08

St. Louis Post-Dispatch "The Blues' six-year run of making the playoffs came to a painful end on Saturday night with a 5-2 loss to the Colorado Avalanche in a do-or-die winner-take-all showdown in the season's final game in Denver. The Blues finished one point in back of Colorado, 95 points to 94, in the battle for the..." April 08

Pro Hockey Rumors "The Colorado Avalanche have signed a college free agent, inking Josh Dickinson to a three-year entry-level contract that will begin in 2018-19. Dickinson will report to the San Antonio Rampage for the rest of this season on an amateur tryout. The younger brother of Stars prospect Jason..." April 05

Pro Hockey Talk "The 2017-18 NHL season will come to an end this weekend and barring some last-minute decision, no head coach will have been fired; that’s something that hasn’t happened since the league expanded in 1967. It’s a rarity that no coach has been canned, despite the calls for management to take..." April 05

Sporting News "The Stanley Cup is erasing some of the biggest names in hockey to make room for future winners. The names from the teams that won the Cup from 1954-64 will be stripped off the hardware this spring, the Chicago Tribune reported. That means legendary names such as Gordie Howe and Robert Hull..." April 04

The Score "Spring is finally in the air. And with that, the NHL calendar is inching closer to what we all crave most: playoff puck. However, there is another major event on the horizon, as the league will hand out its awards for the game's best coaches, front-office executives, and players at the..." April 03

TSN "The Colorado Avalanche, who are currently battling for their playoff lives in the Western Conference, lost two major pieces to injury on Saturday. Starting goalie Semyon Varlamovis out for the season with a lower-body injury while defenceman Erik Johnson has a fractured patella and will be..." March 31

Pro Hockey Talk "Uh oh. Colorado Avalanche netminder Semyon Varlamov had to be helped off the ice in the third period on Friday in a game against the Chicago Blackhawks. The Avs were leading 4-0 when Blackhawks forward Tomas Jurco blew a tire trying to put a deke on Varlamov. Instead of stopping the puck,..." March 31

Pro Hockey Rumors "If you thought having two Sebastian Aho’s was confusing, get ready for Josh Anderson. That’s one of the newest members of the Colorado Avalanche organization, as the defenseman signed his entry-level contract today, along with Travis Barron. Both players inked three-year entry-level deals, signing..." March 30

Sportsnet "The NHL has released the odds for the 2018 Draft Lottery, which will be held on April 28 in Toronto. The lottery will consist of three draws: one for the first-overall pick, one for the second-overall pick and one for the third. The 15 teams that fail to qualify for the playoffs, or teams that..." March 28

Sportsnet "Los Angeles Kings defenceman Drew Doughty often has a front-row seat to some of the best talent in the game, having to be tasked with shutting down opposing teams’ top players. He’s had his hands full in recent seasons with Connor McDavid of the Edmonton Oilers, and Nathan MacKinnon of the..." March 25

The Score "The NHL Players Association has approved the general mangers' proposed change to goaltender interference video reviews that would give the league's hockey operations department the final call over the on-ice referee. Unanimous approval from the Board of Governors is still required before the..." March 22

The Score "NHL general managers have officially recommended a change to the goaltender interference rule, agreeing to leave video reviews up to the league's hockey operations department rather than on-ice referees, commissioner Gary Bettman announced Wednesday. The team responsible for making the calls..." March 21

Pro Hockey Rumors "The NHL General Managers are currently at their yearly meetup in Boca Raton, Florida, and the agenda is filled with discussions on how to make the game better and more appealing to fans. Goaltender interference reviews were one of the biggest issues heading into the meetings, and one brought up..." March 19

CBS Sports "Johnson (shoulder) will be activated from injured reserve and slot into Sunday's game against the Red Wings. Johnson has missed 13 games with this shoulder issue, and the Avalanche should be excited for the former first-overall pick to bolster its blue line." March 18