Tag: jared bednar
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Mackenzie Blackwood silences doubters with strong performance in Avalanche’s Game 4 win over Wild
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Jared Bednar made a bold move, and big Mackenzie Blackwood backed him up. Blackwood, starting his first game since April 14 in Calgary, stopped 19 shots in Colorado’s massive 5-2 victory over the Minnesota Wild in Game 4 at Grand Casino Arena. The Avalanche grabbed a 3-1 series lead and now…
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Mark Kiszla: Can Avs coach Jared Bednar end nasty habit of failure to put the hammer down in NHL playoffs?
MINNEAPOLIS — With the Avs at the playoff crossroads where they often take a really bad turn for the worse, is Jared Bednar the right coach to keep this team on the right track? Well, history tells us: Don’t count on it. “I’m unoffendable,” Bednar said Sunday. No offense. But here’s my truth: Teams coached…
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Mark Kiszla: Avs have goalie controversy at worst possible time after Scott Wedgewood benched in playoff loss
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota gave the Avalanche a Wedgie. I see London. I see France. On Saturday night, I watched the Wild give goalie Scott Wedgewood a swift kick in the pants. In a 5-1 rout of the Avs that proved the Wild are no joke, Wedgewood lost a grip on his stick on…
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Avalanche ‘feel good’ about Josh Manson’s availability as series moves to Minnesota
ST. PAUL — With the series between the Avalanche and Wild moving to Minnesota, there’s a possibility for both teams to get an important player back in the lineup on Saturday evening. Prior to the Avalanche flying to Minnesota, coach Jared Bednar said the team didn’t bring Jack Ahcan with them for the trip as…
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Gabriel Landeskog showing he’s still the ‘fixer’ for Jared Bednar, Avalanche
When a line on the Avalanche needs a boost, Jared Bednar has the solution. Throw some Landy on it. Which is remarkable given everything Gabriel Landeskog has gone through over the past four years. Through five playoff games, Landeskog is producing at a point-per-game pace, with Game 1 against the Los Angeles Kings being the…
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Mark Kiszla: Avs, Wild channel the 1980s in a Game 1 goalapalooza
Dusting off their old fire wagons and rolling ‘em out of the barn, the Avalanche and Wild played classic 1980s hockey that got up and danced like Michael Jackson. The Avs won a Thriller. Their 9-6 victory was a Sunday night tribute to the greatness of Wayne Gretzky and a throwback to the sport’s golden…
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Avalanche, Cale Makar put the league on notice with sweep of Kings
LOS ANGELES – He shimmies. He shakes. The defending forward has no chance. Nobody can suck the life out of an opposing building like Cale Makar. In the four games against the Los Angeles Kings, the Avalanche blueliner showed everyone why he is the best defenseman in the world. And it’s not just the highlight-reel…
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High-scoring Avalanche showing the NHL world they can win with defense
LOS ANGELES — Goals are sexy. Goals are fun. Goals have also been hard to come by through two games of a series against the Kings. That’s OK with the Avalanche. They were the highest-scoring team in the NHL during the regular season, but they’re more than happy to show the world they don’t need…
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Mark Kiszla: Kings are clowns the Avs need as practice for real NHL playoff battles ahead
After meticulously crafting a hockey team as beautiful as an ice sculpture, Joe Sakic must watch the rest of the NHL try to take a hammer to his Avalanche during the Stanley Cup playoffs. “This is going to be fun,” Sakic told me Sunday. With that guarantee, the 56-year-old Avs executive stepped off the elevator,…
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Kickin’ It with Kiz: Bednar flirting with trouble in the Lumberyard if Avs don’t commit to one goalie
The Avs might not win the Stanley Cup if coach Jared Bednar insists on rotating goalies in the playoffs. – B-Rad, putting out fires Kiz: I hear the sound of trouble rumbling in the Lumberyard, if Bednar actually thinks throwing any goalie on the woodpile is going to make a stone wall in front of…