The last time the Nuggets made the playoffs …
It feels like a lifetime ago. And when looking at the sports landscape, the landscape we have come to know and love, it certainly…
What’s wrong with the Colorado Avalanche?
Too much dependency on the top line and inconsistent play on the defensive end could cost the Avs a shot at the playoffs in 2018-…
Avs’ leading scorer Rantanen named to NHL All-Star Game
Avalanche forward Mikko Rantanen was named to his first All-Star Game on Wednesday.
Avalanche Renaissance
Was last season’s thrilling run to the playoffs a sign of things to come... or was it a fluke?
Avalanche and Patrik Nemeth agree on one-year deal
The Colorado Avalanche announced Thursday that the team has signed defenseman Patrik Nemeth to a one-year contract for the 2018-19…
Frei: The risk of staying the course for Avalanche is that youth has to keep improving
The Avalanche’s free-agency tweaks — and that’s what the Sunday signings of defenseman Ian Cole (above) and winger Matt Calvert…
Frei: Wait … Haven’t we heard this before about the Avalanche net?
I actually think the best stories for the Avalanche in 2018-19 would be Nathan MacKinnon proving his Hart Trophy-caliber season…
Mike Haynes was the championship voice of the Avalanche
Mike Haynes was the Colorado Avalanche's originally radio play-by-play broadcaster and the narrator for the team's biggest moments…
Gabriel Bourque re-signs with the Avalanche
The Colorado Avalanche announced the club re-signed Gabriel Bourque to a contract through the 2018-19 season.
Frei: Eagles about to fly up a level as Avalanche affiliate
It's a tough job, but somebody has to do it. Besides, Case Keenum doesn't have the time.
Joe Sakic: ‘A lot of kids’ powering the resurgent Avalanche
The transformation of the Avalanche, from rebuilding to postseason, led by the fountain of youth.
Frei: How’s this for half full? Barely missing playoffs wouldn’t be all bad for the Avs
The Avalanche’s playoff hopes will come down to the final game of the regular season. After beating the Chicago Blackhawks 4-1…
A season of improvement — with or without playoffs — will help youthful Avalanche
The Colorado Avalanche are on the brink of missing the playoffs, but a long offseason might be better given their history.
Frei: An Avalanche playoff run can be a flashback, and there’s nothing wrong with that
The Avalanche's playoff run will turn out to be a fun flashback, too. And there's nothing wrong with that.
Nathan MacKinnon named NHL First Star of the Week for third time this season
Nathan MacKinnon is one of the NHL's elite, and continues to impress in a career year.
Frei: At least around here, the NHL trading deadline was much ado about very, very little
Joe Sakic wouldn't address whether the Avalanche got in the bidding for Ottawa's Erik Karlsson, who still is expected to be dealt…
Frei: Avalanche standing pat wouldn’t be irresponsible inertia
Going into Saturday’s games, the Avalanche, with 69 points, was only three out of the Western Conference’s second wild-card…
Frei: Don’t let MacKinnon’s longer-than-expected absence knock Avs off course
The start of Nathan MacKinnon's two-to-four week absence from the lineup comes amid a testing stretch of the Colorado schedule so…
Frei: NHL and Avs will go back to work, not to Olympics, and DU’s Troy Terry will skate for USA
As the NHL staged its All-Star weekend, with Nathan MacKinnon as the Avalanche representative on the Central Division roster, one…
Frei: A tale of two Avalanche All-Stars, past and present
As the Avalanche went into the All-Star break with a two-game losing streak that does nothing to diminish the magnitude of its…
Playoffs? Avs’ star wants to win the Stanley Cup
Nathan MacKinnon knows they have to get in the playoffs first, but the MVP candidate thinks the Avs have a legitimate shot at the…
Nathan MacKinnon joins elite group of Avs with second All-Star selection
Colorado Avalanche forward Nathan MacKinnon has just accomplished something no Avs player has managed to do since Joe Sakic.
Frei: What Avs are trying to get back to. Glory Days. Now try to get Springsteen out of your head.
This much we know: Whenever that next home Avalanche playoff game is, there will be six jerseys and numbers overhead. …
Frei: Bednar’s second year under Sakic sets example for Joseph’s second under Elway
John Elway attended the Nuggets-Suns game Wednesday night, kibitzing with Rocky and sitting near Governor John Hickenlooper and…
Frei: At the Christmas break, Avalanche is a turnaround story
With only minimal hesitancy, I'll go along now, with the Avalanche sitting at 17-15-3, or barely short of winning half its games.…