It sure sucked to see the Minnesota Wild’s playoff chances thrown a major wrench in the gears tonight by the Colorado Avalanche, didn’t it? If the Avs miss the playoffs, but also cause the Wild to miss them based off this 3-1 win tonight in their barn? That won’t suck, will it? The grades: Mikko Rantanen (B+) – No points,…...

The comparisons to last year were inevitable. The Avalanche are sitting on the outside of the playoffs looking in but knowing they successfully climbed the last-season playoff push mountain last year, they’re confident they can do it again. When Tyson Jost heard the question, he just smiled. Talking about last year’s success has that effect on a lot of the…...

AJ Haefele and Jesse Montano take to the mic to talk AJ Greer, the Avs goaltending situation, and Colorado’s “little three”.

The BSN Avalanche Podcast starts off your week as AJ Haefele and Jesse Montano breakdown Colorado’s 3-0 win over the New Jersey Devils.

When we talk about how goaltenders are voodoo, this is the stuff we’re talking about. There were no signs of this coming. Following a dominant home win on January 4 against the New York Rangers, Philipp Grubauer started three games in the span of a month, giving up 16 goals (!) in those starts. At that point, Semyon Varlamov had…...

Why can’t every game be on a weekend afternoon? They’re always more fun, everybody is always in a good mood and the hockey always seems to be good too. Well, not if you were a New Jersey Devils fan Sunday. Pretty easy win for the Avs, whose playoff hopes remain on life support. But, hey, could be worse. The grades:…...

The BSN Avalanche Podcasts finishes up a cold and snowy week with the grizzled vet on the mic, taking you back inside the locker room.

Andrew Agozzino (C) – He had one nice play where he chipped a centering pass on net. That was the end of his notable contributions tonight. Sven Andrighetto (A) – The fourth line was at times awful and one time it was really good. Andrighetto’s biggest contribution, tying the game at 3-3 in the third period, came when he was on the…...

This will be a tough postmortem to perform, if, as it appears more and more likely, exactly how and why the Avalanche fell apart so badly in the second half of this season and missed the playoffs. I don’t really get it, folks. On Dec. 6, the Avalanche had a 17-7-5 record after a 5-2 win at the BB&T Center…...

WHAT: BSN Avalanche watch party with AJ, Dater, and Jesse WHEN: Tuesday, March 19th at 6:00 pm WHERE: Icehouse Tavern | 1801 Wynkoop Street # 150 Denver, CO. 80202 WHY: Watch the Avs battle the Wild and win another incredible prize pack! Join Adrian Dater, AJ Haefele, and Jesse Montano at the Icehouse Tavern in LoDo and watch the Avalanche battle the Minnesota Wild GIVEAWAYS  –…

Andre Simone and AJ Haefele are back this week with another look ahead at this summer’s NHL Draft. This episode they focus on what Colorado should look to do if they fall out of the coveted top two spots and why targeting a defenseman might be the right play.

AJ Haefele and Jesse Montano break down the Avs’ loss to the Carolina Hurricanes, talk Landy, and look at the NHL standings.

In the latest “Avalanche Weekly Breakdown”, presented by Piper Electric, Adrian Dater and Allie Monroy discuss what went wrong in Monday’s loss to Carolina, but also take a look at some of the positive things to come out of the night. Also up for discussion: How have the guys tasked to step up in the absence of Gabe Landeskog done…

“I thought you guys played a pretty good game,” I said to Nikita Zadorov, sitting by himself quietly. “Not good enough. We didn’t win,” Big Z replied. Yeah, that about sums it up. Earlier in the year, this kind of a loss might have been tallied as a moral victory at least. But this Avalanche team knows it has more…...

Andrew Agozzino (C) – He was fine. The fourth line had its moments of both good and bad but at least Agozzino and Andrighetto helped create some offense in limited minutes. Sven Andrighetto (C) – Another really low-impact night for Andrighetto as he continues to play out the string on his Colorado career. I like the guy so I’m disappointed it hasn’t…...

When you go on the road and have a virtual no-show against a division rival whom you’re competing for a playoff spot with, it’s hard to have any kind of response that makes you feel like it was just one game. That’s especially true when that road game costs you your captain, third-leading scorer, and most versatile two-way forward. And…...

Mikko Rantanen (A) – I thought Mikko was excellent. That was a classic wait-him-out Mikko patience goal there in the third, on the PP. Mikko made Carter Hutton commit with his patience, then went top cookies. He became the third Avs player to hit the 30-goal mark, the first time that’s happened since 1995-96 (Forsberg, Sakic, Lemieux). Nathan MacKinnon (X)…...

The BSN Avalanche Podcast finishes out the week by living up to its intro and taking you inside the locker room.