Frei: Matt Duchene, Jonathan Toews friends, countrymen and competitors
Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews and Avalanche center Matt Duchene have been teammates on Canada's gold medal teams at the 2014 Olympics and the 2016 World Cup.
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Colorado Avalanche shut out, 4-0, by Chicago Blackhawks
It also聽was the third time the Avalanche has been shut out in the past seven games, and Colorado coach Jared Bednar shuffled his lines in the process, ending up with...
Blackhawks join in the revelry — well, vicariously — after Cubs win the World Series
At their morning skate Thursday at the United Center, the current Blackhawks talked about watching another Chicago team, the Cubs, end the 108-year dry spell with a Game 7 win...
Colorado Avalanche embarrassed at home by Nashville Predators
The previously struggling Nashville Predators on Tuesday night got two goals from Craig Smith and 28 saves from goalie Pekka Rinne and blasted the Avalanche 5-1 at the Pepsi Center.
Avalanche defenseman Fedor Tyutin not quite ready to return
Avalanche defenseman Fedor Tyutin, who had missed the previous three games with a groin injury, could have played Tuesday night against Nashville, but Colorado coach Jared Bednar decided not to...
No longer a teenager, Mikko Rantanen settling back in with Avalanche
Avalanche winger Mikko Rantanen will play his 12th career NHL game Tuesday night against Nashville at the Pepsi Center -- and his third this season after returning last week from...
Matt Duchene scores two as Avalanche beats Coyotes
Last season, Matt Duchene had only one goal in the Avalanche's first 11 games and the "what's-wrong-with-Duchene" questions and stories came in flurries.
Reunions abound for Avalanche in game against Coyotes
The Avalanche's Saturday night game against the Arizona Coyotes was聽one of the handful of times a season when Colorado center Matt Duchene reunites with his uncle, Newell Brown.
Frei: Avalanche’s Bednar has been impressive in the unique transition
In August, Jared Bednar was getting ready for his third season as head coach of the Columbus Blue Jackets' American Hockey League affiliate -- by then renamed the Cleveland Monsters.
Avalanche stymied at Jets as Michael Hutchinson has 37 saves
With six days between games and his manpower situation changing, Avalanche coach Jared Bedar put together new lines and skated them through three days of quick-paced practices leading up to...