WINNIPEG, MANITOBA — Greetings from what feels like the North Pole. It was dangerously cold Sunday but heating up to a minus-14 today. No complains here. I’m enjoying a nice lunch at the Tavern outside MTS Centre, where the Avalanche will visit the Jets at 7 p.m. CT. I’ll be at nearby Boston Pizza (a Canadian company, by the way) at 5:30 CT and do radio with TSN 1290 and Hustler and Lawless.
Our gameday looks at the Norwegian’s rise to becoming a full-time NHLer in his first year in North America. The spotlight is on Winnipeg rookie goalie Connor Hellebuyck.
Our with an assortment of topics answered from readers.
Ryan O’Reilly and Jamie McGinn return to Denver on Tuesday for Wednesday’s game against the Buffalo Sabres. Our touched on that and more.
Terry Frei on Sunday had a who was one of the return pieces from the Sabres.
Goalie Semyon Varlamov will start tonight against the Jets, stepping in for Calvin Pickard, who took Saturday’s 2-1 loss at Columbus. Otherwise, no lineup changes for the Avs:
Tanguay-MacKinnon-Duchene
Landeskog-Soderberg-Comeau
Martinsen-Wagner-Iginla
McLeod-Mitchell-Skille
Zadorov-Beauchemin
Holden-Barrie
Bigras-Redmond
From the Winnipeg side of things, here’s and the .
