The Avalanche Friday morning traded its longest-tenured player, winger Cody McLeod, to the Nashville Predators for center Felix Girard. Girard, 22, is in his third season with the Milwaukee Admirals of the AHL and will join the Avalanche’s affiliate in the same league, the San Antonio Rampage. He was Nashville’s fourth-round pick in 2013 and…

via Avalanche ship Cody McLeod to Nashville for AHL center Felix Girard — The Denver Post

The Colorado Avalanche are looking to acquire a stud defenseman, and Gabe Landeskog is the main man behind the rumors; unfortunately, Landy is not valuable enough to acquire a game-changing defenseman. The Colorado Avalanche are currently searching for a way to upgrade their blueline; unfortunately Gabe Landeskog is not valuable enough to acquire the type…

via Colorado Avalanche Forward Gabe Landeskog is Not Worth Stud D-Man — Mile High Sticking

Thanks to their recent struggles, trade rumors have begun to surround Colorado Avalanche forward Gabriel Landeskog. Even if they are willing to move their captain, it isn’t like the Avs will just give him away. During Tuesday’s edition of “Insider Trading” on TSN, the panel tackled the topic of Landeskog. During the discussion, Darren Dreger outlined the…

via Avalanche asking a lot in return for captain Gabriel Landeskog — Mile High Sports

The Avalanche reconvened for a late afternoon Wednesday practice after four complete days off, thanks to a “bye” period each NHL team gets for the first time this season. After practice, goalie Semyon Varlamov said he was good to go after his latest bout with groin muscle issues and coach Jared Bednar confirmed the veteran…

via Semyon Varlamov will be back in the Avalanche net against Anaheim — The Denver Post

The Colorado Avalanche should put speedy forwards Matt Duchene and Matt Nieto on a line together for dynamic scoring chances. Ever since the 2015 Ryan O’Reilly trade, Colorado Avalanche center Matt Duchene has lacked a true scoring partner. For a while he’d been on a line with Paul Stastny, until the latter left in free…

via Colorado Avalanche Should Try Duchene and Nieto Together — Mile High Sticking

The National Hockey League announced Tuesday the full rosters of players and coaches for the 2017 NHL All-Star Game. Colorado Avalanche center Nathan MacKinnon was selected to represent the Avs. MacKinnon has tallied 10 goals and 17 assists in 37 games this season. This is his first NHL all-star selection. The all-star weekend will be…

via Nathan MacKinnon selected to represent Colorado Avalanche at NHL All-Star Game — The Denver Post

The Avalanche likely would need to have the best record in the league for the final three months to make the playoffs. That isn’t happening. Suddenly, this went from talking about possible moves to salvage the season to conceding that’s impossible and that it’s time to move on. The collapse was so resounding, so complete, this…

via Frei: Avalanche deals to salvage season? Too late now. — The Denver Post

Though the Colorado Avalanche won Friday night against the New York Islanders, the team is last in the NHL. It is a distinct regression from last year, when they were in the playoff hunt. The decline of the Colorado Avalanche has been a popular topic of discussion among the NHL. They have lost night after…

via Colorado Avalanche are in a Death Spiral — Mile High Sticking

Before its five-day bye period begins Saturday, the downtrodden Avalanche has one more game to get out of the way — Friday night’s meeting with the New York Islanders at the Pepsi Center. Although Semyon Varlamov has recovered enough from his groin muscle issues to suit up and serve as the backup, Calvin Pickard will…

via Matt Nieto rarin’ to go for Avalanche, Semyon Varlamov to back up Calvin Pickard — The Denver Post

The Colorado Avalanche must make changes to get them back to competitiveness. One option is to blow up the core and rebuild. Doesn’t it seem like the Colorado Avalanche have been in a rebuild since, like, 2003? Or at least since 2005, when the salary cap was implemented. Well, it looks like we might be…

via Colorado Avalanche Rebuild: Blowing Up the Core — Mile High Sticking