When you’ve lost seven games in a row, there aren’t really any positives you can take into the eighth game that don’t sound hollow or meaningful. The Avalanche went out and had the kind of first period they really needed to have. Sure, there were some mistakes but asking a team to play mistake-free is asking a team not to…...
ARLINGTON, Va. – Hello from the Old Dominion (that’s the official nickname of Virginia), where the Avs had a practice today. I’ve got four pieces of uncut audio for your listening pleasure. I would say the Avs had an upbeat practice here. No, there aren’t tons of laughs and jokes around the team right now, but I think the attitude was…...
Joe Sakic said it Tuesday night: He’s been talking with fellow NHL general managers for “three, four weeks now” about potential trades to better his sputtering Colorado Avalanche hockey club. Off limits, however, are any of his top prospects and/or upcoming “high draft picks.” There are 19 days until the trade deadline. Here are my thoughts on who is the…...
Tyson Barrie completed his seventh NHL season in 2017-18, all so far with the Avalanche. Despite being one of the most tenured players on the team, the defenseman is still just 26. OVERVIEW Among NHL defensemen who posted 50 or more points this past season, only Ottawa’s Erik Karlsson had a better points-per-game average than Tyson Barrie’s 0.84 (Karlsson’s was…...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Here is your uncut locker-room audio from today at Bridgestone Arena. Some reflection from Tyson Barrie on the hit from Johansen, Sven Andrighetto on what the team needs to do to win Game 2 and Jonathan Bernier on what he thinks of those chants by the Nashville home crowd: Barrie:...
Tyson Barrie's electric performance down the stretch has announced his arrival as the best defenseman on Colorado's roster right now.
Some uncut audio here, from the morning skate. We have Tyson Barrie, talking about his hot streak and how/why it really started to take off. We have Gabriel Bourque, talking about going from a frequent healthy scratch and even sent down to the minors at the start of the season to playing pretty regular minutes for the Avs. And, we…...