Let’s get ‘er going! Avalanche hosts the Minnesota Wild on Thursday in the season opener for both teams. Here’s quick-hitting season preview piece I did with Robin Carlin:
The DP has a four-page wrap around Thursday’s’ sports section, and in it features the following — in tribute to the Avs’ 20th anniversary season:
The top 20 Colorado Avalanche players of all time
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— Denver Post Sports (@DPostSports)
Wednesday’s at most morning skates this season. Also in there: Gabe Landeskog and his alternate captains; personnel on the two power-play units; and what D-pairing might be scratched Thursday.
Wednesday’s print story looks at Matt Duchene and Ryan O’Reilly (both 2009), Gabe Landeskog (2011) and Nathan MacKinnon (2013) as teenage sensations who went straight from the NHL draft to NHL opening night.
Avalanche LW Cody McLeod on the Wild: “We don’t like them. They don’t like us. It’s been going on for a few years now. We’re going to come out hard. We’ll have our crowd behind us. We’ll be ready to go.”
about Patrick Roy.
COL’s opening-night lineup:
Comeau-Duchene-Iginla
Landeskog-MacKinnon-Tanguay
Rantanen-Soderberg-Rendulic
McLeod-Mitchell-Skille
Scratched: Grigorenko
Beauchemin-Johnson
Guenin-Barrie
Stuart-Gormley
Zadorov-Holden
(two scratches TBD)
Varlamov
Berra
Avalanche captain Gabe Landeskog after Wednesday’s practice:
