Patrick Roy discusses the scheduled team debut for defenseman Brandon Gormley and other things at Wednesday morning’s press conference at the Pepsi Center
A quick-hitting Gormley story from Wednesday morning is at denverpost.com/avalanche, plus everything else we do.
Avalanche lineup:
Landeskog-MacKinnon-Tanguay
Rantanen-Duchene-Iginla
Comeau-Soderberg-Mitchell
McLeod-Grigorenko-Skille
Beauchemin-Johnson
Zadorov-Guenin
Holden-Gormley
Varlamov
Berra
Good to be back on the beat. I traveled with Denver-based Furniture Row Racing to last weekend’s NASCAR race in Kansas. Good times. Big feature pegged to run Thursday. Thanks to Nick Groke for filling in Tuesday. Nick’s advance . … Why another 8 p.m. start? The game is televised locally but the NHL is trying to avoid overlap from its featured NBC Sports Network game — Flyers at Bruins, 6 p.m. It’s a contract thing. … Rookie Mikko Rantanen, 18, is a startling minus-5 and pointless. But he does have seven shots and is averaging just 8:54 of ice. He’ll get more ice on the Matt Duchene line.
