The Colorado Avalanche have been dominant all year holding the best record in hockey and leading the league in points by almost a ten digit lead in most cases. The closest team is the Dallas Stars who still sit seven points behind them.
This past week the Avs got even more dominant after signing fan favorite Nazem Kadri back from the Calgary Flames and Nicolas Roy from the Toronto Maple Leafs adding two solid pieces to an already stacked roster.
Both signings couldn’t have come at a better time as team captain Gabriel Landeskog was ruled out with a lower body injury and has been listed as week-to-week.
This week the Avs host the Edmonton Oilers (results of the game not available at the time of this writing) at Ball Arena. Colorado beat Edmonton back on November 8th 9-1 in Edmonton. Colorado then heads to Seattle to face the Kraken who are on a two-game losing streak after losing to the St. Louis Blues and the Ottawa Senators.
Colorado heads to Winnipeg to face the Jets this weekend before returning home next week to host the Pittsburg Penguins and the Dallas Stars next Wednesday.
In other sports the Denver Nuggets are officially in trouble of missing the playoffs after losing four of their last six games dropping to number 6 in the Western Conference standings falling 11.5 games behind the conference-leading Oklahoma City Thunder.
At this rate, the Denver Nuggets would be lucky if they make the play in tournament. A large part of Denver’s problems has been injury however; coaching has also been a big question mark after Denver fired coach Mike Malone last season.
Whatever the Nuggets do next it better be significant in order to turn their season around.
The Nuggets will host the Houston Rockets this week before heading to Texas to face a surging second place western conference San Antonio Spurs before heading to L.A. to face LeBron and the Lakers.
Despite Denver Broncos general manager George Paton emphasizing that the Broncos would be aggressive in free-agency at the end of the season, the Broncos have yet to sign a single free-agent aside from in-house players. The Broncos are in dire need of help on the offensive side of the ball, including another running back.
The Broncos re-signed running back J.K. Dobbins to a two-year deal along with tight end Adam Trautman and running back Tyler Badie, but have failed to add any significant pieces to the rosters missing out on key signings like Seahawks running back Kenneth Walker III who just signed with divisional foes, the Kansas City Chiefs.
It’s unclear at this point if the Broncos are even going to add any outside free-agents after losing key players like defensive lineman John Franklin-Meyers and cutting linebacker Dre Greenlaw freeing up $6 million.
Denver is free of the dead money cap related to the contract they had with Russell Wilson this season leaving them with significant capital to sign needed players in free-agency. The question is, what are they waiting for?
