The Avalanche (Avs) played in six preseason games, that included two with the Las Vegas Golden Knights, two with the Minnesota Wild and two with the Dallas Stars. While the preseason in the NHL is less exciting than say the preseason in the NFL, the fact that Denver’s one modern championship team is back, has many Colorado sports fans offering a collective sigh of relief.
This week (Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.) the Avs kick off the 2022-2023 season at home against the Blackhawks before heading to Calgary to face the Flames on Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
Over the summer Avs fans got to experience through social media posts, many days with the cup from eating ice cream out of Sir Stanley to summer fun on the slip-n-slide. The Cup of course is now the standard for Avs fans across the globe and nothing less.
On Monday the final cherry on top of the icing on the cake was when Avalanche players finally received their championship rings, which features nearly 700 diamonds, 42 rubies, and 20 sapphires inlayed to create the Avs logo, players number and names. The creator of the ring, Josten’s, is releasing 72 limited edition rings for fans, coming in the lofty price of $11,119.
In other sports the Denver Nuggets played their third preseason game Monday night at Ball Arena against the Phoenix Suns. Ish Smith and Nah’Shon ‘Bones’ Hyland led all Nuggets with a combined 33 points, 10 assists, and 9 rebounds. Denver Nuggets center DeAndre Jordan recorded 10 rebounds, 2 assists and 7 points helped put the Nuggets over the Suns 107-105.
Only two remaining games are left in the preseason for the Nuggets both road games in L.A. to face the Clippers and in the Bay Area to face the Golden State Warriors. Next Wednesday the Nuggets will begin their regular season against the Utah Jazz in Utah at 7 p.m.
The Denver Broncos fell to 2-3 last week against the Indianapolis Colts. Thursday night’s game was another primetime game for the Broncos with only four days of rest from their loss to the Raiders. Fortunately for Denver fans the Broncos have nearly two weeks to prepare for their game against division opponents, the Los Angeles Chargers on Monday night (another primetime game).
The Broncos are currently 6-point underdogs to the Chargers after they beat the Cleveland Browns 38-10 this past Sunday. The Chargers have beaten the Las Vegas Raiders and nearly defeated the Chiefs in mid-September, before getting demolished by the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Sunday’s matchup in L.A. will be the game many hope the Broncos will turn things around, but the team currently has the most players on injured reserve (IR) with a total of 12 including 5 starters three of which are lost to the season in Garret Boles, Javonte Williams, and Tim Patrick. Quarterback Russell Wilson also sustained an injury during Denver’s loss to the Raiders however; he’s managed to play through the pain and was in L.A. last week to get treatment for his shoulder injury.
