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Coach Q made two more cuts on Sunday, sending super youngster TJ Hensick to Lake Erie along with not-so super veteran Mark Rycroft.  Hensiiick was on fire the entire pre-season, but with no lack...

photo courtesy Avalanche.com Andrew Brunette may not be fast, nor particularly young, but he knows where to be on the ice, and he knows how to put the biscuit in the basket.Off a feed from Czech...

John Buccigross has resumed his popular column at ESPN.com this week, and his first series of posts is a Western Conference preview.  In the first post, teams 15-11 were ranked, with the Avalanche...

As the esteemed Mile High Hockey contributor Draft Dodger reports on his other blog, Coach Joel Quenneville has made more cuts to the pre-season Avalanche roster.Off to the Lake Erie Monsters are...

Last season, every time the Avalanche entered the third period with a multi-goal lead, I was a nervous wreck.  It was almost certain that they would blow the lead somehow and end up with just one...

The Avalanche take on the Stars again tonight at the Pepsi Center, with Budaj likely to play the whole game in net and Coach Q to be testing the Smyth-Sakic-Brunette line pretty heavily.  He...

photo courtesy of Ethan Miller/Getty That's right, Colorado Crazies, it's time to gauge fan opinion on how the Avalanche newbies are doing so far this pre-season.  Specifically, which player has...

The Avalanche hopes that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.Despite the continued superb play of Paul Stastny and TJ Hensick, the Avalanche fell to the Los Angeles Kings last night in a shootout...

The Avalanche continue their steamrolling pre-season adventure tonight in Sin City against the Los Angeles Kings---again.  This will be the second time in a week they've played the Kings and the...

photo courtesy of Tim Sharp/AP Deep.  Real deep.That's the only way to describe the Avalanche so far this pre-season.  They're deeper than they've been in years, and their crop of prospects is...