Mile High Hockey, a Colorado Avalanche community

New free agent Jay McClement's penalty killing abilities and strong defensive play may make him a hot commodity.

Every year at Mile High Hockey, we spend the early part of the offseason compiling Final Grades for everyone who played for the Colorado Avalanche the previous year, plus the GM and coach. We're...

What's the word concerning the Colorado Avalanche around the web? Our weekly collection (with a scoop of The Denver Post's Adrian Dater) will fill you in and then some.

What's the word concerning the Colorado Avalanche around the web? Our weekly collection (with a scoop of The Denver Post's Adrian Dater) will fill you in and then some.

The Cats are in desperate need of scoring as the deadline approaches, but possible suitors are not easy to come by.

  photo courtesy Darren McCollester / Getty Images The grades are complete, but, before we say goodbye to them for the year, we thought it would be a good idea to milk this one more time recap...

The signs of spring are everywhere. The grills are coming out, the grass is getting green, the stupid neighbor kid keeps coming into my yard, the ice cream shop downtown is open, and I'm watching...

Links to the Joe Sacco press conference as well as radio interviews with several Avalanche staffers

The Avalanche will bump Sacco up from their AHL affiliate to the top coaching job in a presser later this afternoon, continuing the trend that the Penguins started with a youthful former player/plugger taking over behind the bench.