By: Brandon Rivera
After winning nine straight games the Colorado Avalanche have lost three straight. Last Wednesday the Avalanche traveled to Seattle to face the Kraken who scored all their winning goals in just the first period. The Avs were only able to muster two goals in three periods for their first of three losses.
On Friday, the Avs traveled to Edmonton to face the Oilers who gave up a hat trick to Oiler winger Evander Kane. The Avs lost 6-3. Sunday night on the road in Winnipeg wasn’t any better when the Avs faced the Jets. A scoreless game through two periods opened up in the fourth period with the Jets scoring four goals to Colorado’s single, losing 4-1.
Colorado’s three-game road stretch proved to be a difficult one after their nine game winning streak. Now they will have two games at home against the St. Louis Blues (results of the game not available at the time of this writing), and the Nashville Predators before heading to Minnesota to face the Wild for their final game of the season. Currently the Avs are now four points behind the Florida Panthers for the race for the President’s Trophy and may likely have fallen out of contention after their three game slide.
In other sports the Denver Nuggets survived a sweep on Sunday with a win over the Golden State Warriors. Nikola Jokic lead the team with 37 points, 6 assists, and 8 rebounds while Monté Morris added 24 points along with Bones Hyland’s 15. While the Nuggets staved off a sweep the task of winning game five in the Bay Area is a tall order. Game five is scheduled for Wednesday night at Chase Center at 8 p.m. MST.
The Colorado Rockies have managed to stay competitive but have lost two of their last three games. On Saturday the Rockies were in Detroit to face the Tigers in a three game series. The Tigers thumped Colorado in game one beating them 13-0. Game two the Rockies bounced back with a 3-2 win and closed out the series with a win in game three 6-2.
On Monday the Rockies traveled to Philly to face the Phillies in a three game series losing game one 8-2. Games two and three (game one results not available by the time of this writing) are scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday (Game three at 11:05 a.m.) before the Rockies return home to host the Cincinnati Reds through the weekend.
The Denver Broncos kicked off voluntary veteran minicamp this week with Russell Wilson trotting out onto the field in orange and blue. Coach Nathaniel Hackett was excited to finally get out on the field with his new team and had this to say about his first day with Russell Wilson, “It’s great.
It’s all the guys. Everybody is coming in; they’re so fired up, so excited to get out there. In the end that’s what you want. You want them to want to practice and want to get better in that, and ‘Russ’ leads that charge. This guy loves practice. Just out there at the end, he was like, ‘Wait, we’re done? Can we do more?’ and you’re like, ‘Man, I would love to but we have to tone it down. Baby steps.’ But he’s awesome.”
The Broncos OTA’s officially start on May 16 but the acquisition of Wilson has lit a fire within the organization, which has translated to great attendance from veteran players.
