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The Avalanche have gone full Freddie Four FingersThe NHL trade deadline has gotten into high gear a couple days before Friday afternoon’s deadline, so let’s roll through the highlights of what’s already gone down....

Deadspin presents the Two-Thirds Through the Season NHL AwardsAfter working up a third of a season award post just so my editor would have something to publish during the Holidays, it only seems right that we do an equally meaningless one with some teams having cracked 60 games played. No, 82 doesn’t divide evenly by three, and there really isn’t a distinctive...

And the highest payroll in the AL Central goes to . . . the Kansas City Royals?If there’s a surer sign that baseball has had a winter of discontent, at least for everyone outside the LA metro area, it’s that the highest payroll in the American League Central belongs to the Kansas City Royals. That’s after they inked star shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. to an 11-year extension that’s ...

Nathan MacKinnon & the bra brigade; A requiem for the Bills; Todd Helton's magic act

Seeing a four-goal game is perhaps the rarest thing a hockey fan can witness in person. It’s not too far off from seeing a no-hitter. I’ve been going to hockey games for 364 years, and I’ve seen one. Steve Thomas vs. the Devils in March of 1990 at Chicago Stadium. I didn’t have to look that up (well...

Nathan MacKinnon is doing things to Avalanche fans

Let’s hand out some NHL awards. It’s Christmas after all!

Generally, this comes up at the quarter-mark or halfway through the season. But hey, it’s Christmas, so let’s hand out some Christmastime NHL awards just to get into the spirit of the thing! Who is leading in the various categories that the league likes to hand out some weird looking silverware for ...

Devon Toews is not pleased with his Avalanche teammates

Last week, the Colorado Avalanche showed off that despite their warts and occasional hiccup, they still have a gear that few if any other teams can reach (Look at this now!). It looked as if the Avs were kind of picking their way through the regular season and hitting their stride in the spring. Aft...

The Avalanche can still make it look easy. The problem is, they don't often seem to want to

It hasn’t been the smoothest season for the Colorado Avalanche. They still lead the Central Division, because the Central is the division where everyone has mittens pinned to their jackets year round. There’s the Dallas Stars, sort of, and then a bunch of teams trying to figure out how doorknobs wo...

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2023 NHL points leaders

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2023 NHL goals leaders

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2023 NHL assists leaders

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2023 NHL plus/minus leaders

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The Washington Capitals only exist for one reason now

The NHL spent a good decade trying to revolve their league around a Pittsburgh Penguins-Washington Capitals rivalry, and more to the point, a Sidney Crosby-Alex Ovechkin one. Unable to come up with any original ideas, because it’s the NHL, it did its best to copy the Bird-Magic dynamic from the NBA ...

by Sam Fels|

|Tue Sep 26 2023

Connor Bedard's most recent highlights prove he is going to be even better than everyone thinks

I’ll throw out all the caveats first, because that’s what every hockey fan outside of Chicago wants. ...

by Sam Fels|

|Mon Sep 18 2023

Gabriel ThreeYaksAndADog will miss all of next season, and the Colorado Avalanche era may already be over

nathan-mackinnon - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights | DeadspinGabriel ThreeYaksAndADog will miss all of next season, and the Colorado Avalanche era may already be over

In the salary-capped NHL, you get one, or two shots with one roster, and then you basically have to reshuffle everything around your core stars, and hope that new hand still produces a flush. It’s a constant game of draw poker. ...

by Sam Fels|

|Tue May 09 2023

Playoff hockey is stupid anyway

The NHL Playoffs gets its jollies from defying logic or explanation, and reveling in its unpredictability. That doesn’t mean it’s always a free-for-all, as hockey and its fans would have you believe. But it delves into the chaos and silliness more often than its brethren, that’s for sure....

by Sam Fels|

|Tue May 02 2023

When did the NBA playoffs become the NHL playoffs?

The first round of the NBA playoffs usually isn’t all that good, which doesn’t stop people from complaining about it. The difference between the top seeds and lower seeds is large enough that those series should result in nothing more than dress rehearsals for the true powers and the later rounds. W...

by Sam Fels|

|Tue Apr 25 2023

The NHL Playoffs Attention Meter

It’s that time again. When the loudest and most obnoxious guy in the bar tells you it’s the best time in sports, the NHL Playoffs. There will be a few tweets coming across your timeline that say something that has some combination of puking and snorting coke together, and they’re likely about watchi...

by Sam Fels|

|Tue Apr 18 2023

The USMNT wins its last game in the pre-Balogun era

International soccer, especially this season, is highly weird. So while the USMNT’s 1-0 win over El Salvador to clinch a spot in the semifinals of the Nations League doesn’t look like much — and it isn’t — one must consider that most of the squad has been run ragged with their club teams, had a Worl...

by Sam Fels|

|Tue Mar 28 2023

Someone tell the Avalanche the season started a few months ago

Maybe Nathan MacKinnon is going to have to ban everyone from drinking soda again. Or let them drink soda, whatever isn’t what they’ve been doing this season. ...

by Sam Fels|

|Tue Jan 03 2023

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