Quick look at a Nathan MacKinnon conversation after Avalanche morning skate in DC:
WASHINGTON — The . It looks at Patrick Roy’s stance on keeping the “Nine Line” intact, and the spotlight is on Alex Ovechkin, now the NHL’s top Russia-born scorer of all-time (in comparison to 2015 Hockey Hall of Fame inductee Sergei Fedorov, Ovechkin already has HHOF credentials).
The Avalanche had a morning skate at the Verizon Center. Center John Mitchell (oblique) did not participate and appears to have been shut down. Roy said he remains day-to-day, but the fact that he’s not skating is not good.
Roy said goalie Semyon Varlamov “might be ready” to play at Winnipeg on Monday, to conclude this seven-game road trip. Reto Berra will make his seventh consecutive start tonight. It would have been nice to see Calvin Pickard get a start on this trip — especially in Winnipeg, his hometown — but he might get reassigned to San Antonio and not even travel with the team to WPG.
Avalanche lineup:
Landeskog-MacKinnon-Duchene
Martinsen-Grigorenko-Iginla
McLeod-Soderberg-Comeau
Everberg-Wagner-Skille
Beauchemin-Johnson
Holden-Barrie
Gormley-Redmond
Berra
Pickard
Some folks have asked me why we refer to Landeskog-MacKinnon-Duchene as the Nine Line. Well, it’s NINETY-two, twenty-NINE, NINE. It sounded better when Duchene was the center, since he his 9, but …
The Capitals had a morning skate at their practice complex. Here’s .
