In a potential Stanley Cup Final preview on Thursday night that felt every bit of the intensity that implies, the Colorado Avalanche came up short in the dreaded shootout 3-2.
Last night, several games were on the bill. A few teams were in with a chance of qualifying for the playoffs. Here are the results and highlights: 1. Nathan
The Colorado Avalanche are probably going to put in a request for the league to review if Nathan MacKinnon deserves an assist on Colorado’s game-tying goal, but they don’t expect it to change.
It’s been a week of streaks being busted for the Colorado Avalanche. On Tuesday, their nine-game winning streak came to an end against the Montreal Canadiens, and on Thursday, Nathan MacKinnon’s historic home point streak was stopped by the New York Rangers.
Unfortunately for Colorado Avalanche center Nathan MacKinnon, a chance to get in the history books has come to an end. With the Avs losing 3-2 in a shootout to the New York Rangers on Thursday, MacKinnon saw his 35-game home point streak come to an end.
Are you tired of hearing about who should win the Hart Trophy yet? No? Okay, that’s good, because the greatest scorer in NHL history has now chimed in.
As with every game, you take the good with the bad, so time to take a look at the pluses and the minuses in the game against the Montreal Canadiens for the Colorado Avalanche.
DENVER — So often this season, the Avalanche have been able to score their way out of a bad game. Just take Sunday’s OT victory as an example. Colorado was able to rely on its powerful top line, led by Hart-Trophy hopeful Nathan MacKinnon, to score five goals in 24 minutes to erase a four-goal deficit for the first time in nearly 17 years.
Nathan MacKinnon extended his home streak to 35 games early on Tuesday night. Unfortunately, that was about the only good thing to happen to the Colorado Avalanche.
Add the names Connor McDavid and Nathan MacKinnon to another set of NHL records. Over the last five years, both players have figured out how to climb the ranks of hockey history.
The Montreal Canadiens have not won two straight games since the middle of January, but they have a chance to end that drought Tuesday night. It won't be easy because Montreal's next game is at the Colorado Avalanche, the hottest team in the NHL.
All eyes are on the MVP race in the NHL with Nathan MacKinnon, but the Colorado Avalanche might have another MVP in their organization. He just happens to play in a different league.
Colorado Avalanche superstar Nathan MacKinnon is having a terrific season and is on the verge of joining an exclusive club with his current point streak at home.
The Penguins had a strong start in the first and held that phenomenal effort throughout the majority of the second against the Avalanche on Sunday, March 24th at the Ball Arena.
For 28 years, Joe Sakic has stood atop the leaderboard for the Colorado Avalanche with his 120 point campaign back during the franchise’s inaugural season in Denver.
The Colorado Avalanche were down by four, but there’s never any panic on that bench. After the comeback win on Sunday afternoon, I asked Jonathan Drouin if the bench was still calm, despite the deficit in the second period.
Cole Harbour has been good to the NHL the past 20 years, producing two No. 1 overall draft picks who have lived up to their expectations. Those two No.
The general consensus is that this year’s Hart Trophy is Nathan MacKinnon’s to lose. It’s an easy argument to make, given that not only has he never won one before, and that he’s been nearly singlehandedly kept the Colorado Avalanche alive this year with 117 points in 69 games.
Tyler Yaremchuk was joined by Carter Hutton to discuss who will come away with the Hart Trophy in this episode of Daily Faceoff Live. Tyler Yaremchuk: There’s less than a month left in the season and the awards races are heating up although a couple of them feel like slam-dunks.
It was billed as a match-up of Stanley Cup contenders and Hart Trophy candidates at Rogers Place on Saturday (March 16), and in both cases, the host came up short, as Nathan MacKinnon and the Colorado Avalanche beat Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers 3-2.
The Calgary Flames are set to embark on what they describe as a “re-tool on the fly.” The idea behind that is to accumulate young assets, that being draft picks, prospects and young NHL players, in exchange for veteran players who aren’t going to sign with your team long term.
DraftKings currently lists Nathan MacKinnon recording at least one point in every Avs home game this season at +450 odds. Think he's worth betting on?
No NHL player has been more dominant this season than Colorado Avalanche superstar Nathan MacKinnon, and nowhere is that dominance more on display than when he plays at home.
The NHL's finest are putting their best feet forward as teams make their final pushes for playoff spots, and you know what that means -- the race to win the Hart Trophy is as tight as ever.
Remember when Colorado Avalanche superstar Nathan MacKinnon was lamenting his lack of success after his first nine NHL seasons? It might seem like a million years ago, but it was only three.
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