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Joe Sakic

Kings now 3-0 in preseason with 4-3 shootout win

Teddy Purcell scored the only shootout goal, lifting the Los Angeles Kings to a 4-3 win over the Colorado Avalanche on Wednesday night in an exhibition game. After teammates Anze Kopitar and Dustin Brown missed, Purcell...

Hockey notes

Sergei Gonchar will be kept out of the Pittsburgh Penguins' lineup at least through the regular-season opener in two weeks because of a dislocated left shoulder. Gonchar, who sustained the injury during the first period...

THN.com Top 10: Picks in the THN office pool

There’s nothing complicated about our office pool. It’s a straight point pool, 14 of us and 12 rounds of selections. We held it Wednesday at noon. I went with my traditional cast of veteran players, a strategy that always...

Anything that can go wrong for Blues usually does

Well, of course former first overall pick Erik Johnson will miss the upcoming season with a catastrophic knee injury. The Blues drafted the big defenseman ninth overall in the 1977 draft, only to lose him to the Winnipeg...

Avalanche goalie Peter Budaj has net all to himself with Theodore gone

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. - Peter Budaj has the net all to himself, no Jose Theodore standing in his way. The Colorado Avalanche allowed the free-agent Theodore to bolt for Washington on the presumption that Budaj was prepared to...

2008-09 Colorado Avalanche Preview

The Colorado Avalanche are no longer the dominating club they were in the late 1990s and early part of this decade, but they still have captain Joe Sakic to remind them of the good old days. So, is Sakic back for another...

Avalanche play Burgundy and White scrimmage

By Associated Press Monday, September 22, 2008 - Added 5m ago AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. - The Colorado Avalanche warm up for the season with their annual Burgundy and White scrimmage Monday night. Peter Budaj will go up...

NHL coaches: Nine lives

Sep 22, 2008

Barry Melrose returned behind an NHL bench as head coach for the first time in over 13 years on Sept. 20. (Jamie Sabau/Getty Images) The NHL returns with nearly one-third of its clubs making coaching changes since the...

Avs' style takes lots of speed

"If you have a lot of speed," he said, "you can play that way." (Brian Brainerd, The Denver Post ) Joe Sakic was about halfway through a discussion of the Avalanche's renewed emphasis on "up-tempo" hockey for this season...

Canes practice today

Session closed because of football The Carolina Hurricanes opened training camp Friday with player physicals and will be in full practice mode this morning. After three weeks of camp and six exhibition games, the Canes...