The NHL announced on Wednesday, May 1st, the three finalists for the 2023-24 James Norris Memorial Trophy award – Quinn Hughes of the Vancouver Canucks, Roman Josi of the Nashville Predators, and Cale Makar of the Colorado Avalanche.
Aarif Deen breaks down the Avs’ five-game series victory over the Winnipeg Jets. He touches on the bounceback from Alexandar Georgiev, Valeri Nichushkin’s scoring, Artturi Lehkonen’s importance and roster depth.
Artturi Lehkonen showed promising signs of becoming a bonafide top-six scoring winger after an 18-goal rookie season with the Montreal Canadiens in 2016-17.
Colorado Avalanche defenseman Cale Makar was named a Norris Trophy finalist for the fourth time in his career on Wednesday. Makar, who won the award in 2021-22, finished second in the previous campaign and third last season.
For the fourth straight season, Cale Makar will be a finalist for the Norris Trophy. Not a bad way to start your career. On Wednesday, Makar was named as one of the three finalists for the award, which is given annually to the top defenseman in the NHL.
The Winnipeg Jets were facing elimination for the first time in the series against the Colorado Avalanche. It was time that they had to step up and Colorado did not step back at all themselves.
The NHL announced the three finalists for the Norris Trophy on Wednesday.
Strike 2: Would you ask a sports car to pull around a trailer? That must have been what it was like for the Braintrust of the high flying, offensive-minded Colorado Avalanche to convince the team to start to play defensive-minded hockey, just in time for the playoffs.
You never want to lose anyone to injury, but the Colorado Avalanche were able to overcome a few and make it past round one on Tuesday night. Could they get some of the calvary in round two?
The Colorado Avalanche took care of business Tuesday night in Winnipeg, winning the series in commanding fashion. The Avalanche and Jets exchanged goals early, with Winnipeg tying the game at two just 2:06 into the third period.
Yakov Trenin has been a quote machine since coming to the Avalanche, and gave us another great one after Game Five. There were a lot of questions surrounding Alexandar Georgiev after Game One, where he gave up seven goals.
This Colorado Avalanche team looks good. Really good. If you have plans for late May or early June, you might want to delay them a little longer, because this team might still be going at that point.
Mikko Rantanen had two goals and an assist as the visiting Colorado Avalanche eliminated the Winnipeg Jets with a 6-3 win in Game 5 of their Western Conference first-round playoff series on Tuesday night.
After dropping the first game of this first round series, and being eliminated in Round 1 last year, the Colorado Avalanche rolled off four consecutive wins, eliminating the Winnipeg Jets in Game 5 on Tuesday night with a 6-3 victory.
The Avalanche finish off the Jets with excellent team defense and goals from all over the lineup. The big question in this series was can Alexandar Georgiev keep up with presumed Vezina winner Connor Hellebuyck in the opposite net?
Everyone was waiting for Colorado Avalanche star Mikko Rantanen to make his mark on this series. He just wanted to make everyone sweat a little bit. Rantanen scored his first two goals of the series in the third period, giving the Avalanche a lead they were never in danger of giving up.
The famous whiteout in Winnipeg huffed and puffed as much as it could, but it couldn’t stop the Colorado Avalanche. Nathan MacKinnon and company took Game 5 against the Winnipeg Jets 6-3, thus closing out the Round 1 series itself, 4-1.
Colorado defeated the Winnipeg Jets 6-3 to win the Western Conference first-round playoff series.
Nikolai Kovalenko made his long-anticipated Colorado Avalanche debut in the team’s 5-1 victory over the Winnipeg Jets in Game 4 of their Western Conference first-round series on Sunday afternoon.
Colorado Avalanche left winger Artturi Lehkonen has turned into a goal-scoring machine this postseason.
The Colorado Avalanche are getting a little depth fortification at goaltender ahead of Friday's pivotal Game 3 matchup with the Winnipeg Jets.
In the Stanley Cup Playoffs, you need your goaltender to come up with key saves at the most crucial moments of the game. In the first game of the Central Division Semifinals between the Winnipeg Jets and Colorado Avalanche, Avs netminder Alexandar Georgiev did not rise to the occasion, surrendering seven goals and on 23 shots in a 7-6 loss.
The Colorado Avalanche have swapped third-string goaltenders, recalling one and assigning the other.
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