The New York Rangers faced the Colorado Avalanche in an NHL hockey game on March 28, 2024, in Denver. Key players in the game included Vincent Trocheck, Igor Shesterkin, Jack Roslovic, Artemi Panarin, Chad Ruhwedel, Miles Wood, Sean Walker, Cale Makar, and Barclay Goodrow. The match showcased intense moments between the teams, including standout plays and defensive moves.
The Montreal Canadiens faced the Colorado Avalanche in an NHL hockey game on March 26, 2024, in Denver. Players like Sam Montembeault, David Savard, Nick Suzuki, Arber Xhekaj, Cole Caufield, Juraj Slafkovsky, Justus Annunen, Nathan MacKinnon, Josh Manson, Alex Newhook, and Cale Makar were involved in various plays during the game.
The New York Rangers defeated the Philadelphia Flyers in an NHL hockey game on Tuesday, March 26, 2024, with key players like Adam Fox, Vincent Trocheck, Mika Zibanejad, and Alexis Lafreniere making notable contributions.
The NHL game on March 28, 2024, saw the Edmonton Oilers facing off against the Los Angeles Kings in Edmonton, Alberta. Players like Evan Bouchard, Mattias Ekholm, Connor McDavid, Adam Henrique, Leon Draisaitl, Matt Roy, Ryan McLeod, Trevor Moore, Cam Talbot, and Stuart Skinner were involved in various plays during the game.
The New York Islanders played against the Florida Panthers in an NHL hockey game on Thursday, March 28, 2024, in Sunrise, Florida. Players like Jean-Gabriel Pageau, Semyon Varlamov, Ryan Pulock, Noah Dobson, Casey Cizikas, Sam Reinhart, Anthony Stolarz, Kyle MacLean, Aleksander Barkov, and Niko Mikkola were involved in various plays and goals during the game.
The Boston Bruins and Tampa Bay Lightning competed in a heated NHL hockey game in Tampa, Florida on March 27, 2024, with players like David Pastrnak, Brayden Point, and Tanner Jeannot showcasing their skills and physicality on the ice.
The Pittsburgh Penguins faced the Carolina Hurricanes in an NHL hockey game on March 26, 2024. Players like Evgeni Malkin, Jake Guentzel, and Erik Karlsson were actively involved in the game. Goalies like Alex Nedeljkovic and Pyotr Kochetkov made significant saves. Dmitry Orlov scored for the Hurricanes. Physical plays and collisions were also part of the game.
The Toronto Maple Leafs played against the Washington Capitals in an NHL hockey game on March 28, 2024, in Toronto. Players like Tyler Bertuzzi, Max Domi, TJ Brodie, Auston Matthews, Connor McMichael, Charlie Lindgren, Nicholas Robertson, Nicolas Aube-Kubel, Jake McCabe, and Connor Dewar were actively involved in the game.
In an NHL game on March 27, 2024, Ottawa Senators faced the Buffalo Sabres in Buffalo, with notable moments including defenseman Jakob Chychrun and left wing Angus Crookshank celebrating a goal, Buffalo Sabres\' goaltender Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen being replaced by Devon Levi, and Buffalo Sabres right wing JJ Peterka scoring with goaltender Devon Levi. Players such as Brady Tkachuk, Zemgus Girgensons, Dylan Cozens, and Joonas Korpisalo were also actively involved in the game.
In an NHL hockey game on March 28, 2024, the Arizona Coyotes faced the Nashville Predators in Tempe, Arizona. Jack McBain, Sean Durzi, Nick Bjugstad, and Matias Maccelli of the Coyotes had significant moments during the game, while Juuse Saros, Cole Smith, Tommy Novak, Connor Ingram, Jeremy Lauzon, Ryan OReilly, and Jason Zucker were notable players for the Predators. The match showcased goals scored by McBain and Bjugstad for the Coyotes and Zucker for the Predators.
The New York Rangers defeated the Islanders in an NHL Stadium Series game held at MetLife Stadium, with a goal by Artemi Panarin in overtime where the puck never physically entered the net due to the net being knocked off its pegs, but still counted under NHL rules. The game was filled with excitement, including an NHL debut for a Rangers player, a fight, and a rapid succession of goals in the first period. The match ended in a 5-5 tie after the Rangers scored two power-play goals in the final minutes.
The Carolina Hurricanes played against the Detroit Red Wings in an NHL hockey game in Raleigh, North Carolina on Thursday, March 28, 2024. Goals were celebrated by players like Martin Necas, Evgeny Kuznetsov, and Sebastian Aho. Goaltenders Frederik Andersen and James Reimer were active during the game.
In an NHL hockey game on March 28, 2024, the Minnesota Wild defeated the San Jose Sharks with goals from Matt Boldy and Joel Eriksson Ek. Goaltenders Mackenzie Blackwood and Filip Gustavsson made key saves for their teams.
The Pittsburgh Penguins faced off against the Columbus Blue Jackets in an NHL hockey game in Pittsburgh on Thursday, March 28, 2024. Evgeni Malkin scored two goals for the Penguins, with Sidney Crosby, Michael Bunting, Kris Letang, and Bryan Rust also contributing to the game. Columbus Blue Jackets\' Mathieu Olivier scored a goal during the match as well.
The 2024 NHL Stadium Series was a series of two outdoor regular season National Hockey League (NHL) games that were played during the 2023–24 NHL season. This was the first time since 2016 that two Stadium Series games were scheduled instead of just one. Both games were held on the weekend of February 17–18, 2024, at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The Philadelphia Flyers faced the New Jersey Devils on February 17, while the New York Rangers played the New York Islanders on February 18.
The 2023–24 New York Rangers season is the franchise's 97th season of play and their 98th season overall.During the off-season, Peter Laviolette was named head coach on June 13, 2023, after Gerard Gallant resigned at the end of the 2022–23 season.On December 3, the Rangers earned their 3,000th NHL regular season win in franchise history after a 6–5 defeat of the San Jose Sharks.The Rangers participated in the 2024 NHL Stadium Series at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, where they played against the New York Islanders on February 18, 2024, winning the game 6–5 in overtime.The Rangers' season featured long-term injuries to two players. Center Filip Chytil was injured in a game against the Carolina Hurricanes on November 2, 2023. After nearly three months of rehabilitation, including three weeks in his native Czech Republic, Chytil was ruled out by the Rangers for the remainder of the season on January 28, 2024. Additionally, forward Blake Wheeler was ruled out for the remainder of the regular season on February 16, after suffering a lower-body injury against the Montreal Canadiens the previous day.With a 2–1 win over the Philadelphia Flyers on February 24, the Rangers won their 10th consecutive game, tying a franchise record reached in the 1939–40 and 1972–73 seasons.On February 28, the Rangers became the first team in the NHL to reach 40 wins in the 2023–24 season in a 4–1 victory against the Columbus Blue Jackets.
The New York Rangers and Islanders paid tribute to local first responders ahead of their Stadium Series clash at MetLife Stadium, arriving in firetrucks and cop cars, wearing special FDNY or NYPD jerseys. Rangers players arrived with police officers or firefighters, posting a video captioned \'An honor to share this moment with NYPD and FDNY.\' The Islanders led 3-1 after the first period, and it was announced they will host the 2026 NHL All-Star Game. The Devils and Flyers also played at MetLife, with Flyers stars dressed as Rocky Balboa and Devils players resembling characters from The Sopranos.
The Avalanche–Red Wings brawl was a large-scale on-ice melee that occurred March 26, 1997, at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, between two National Hockey League (NHL) rivals: the Colorado Avalanche and Detroit Red Wings. The brawl, which has been nicknamed Bloody Wednesday, Fight Night at the Joe and Brawl in Hockeytown, stemmed from a previous on-ice incident between the two teams during the 1996 Western Conference Finals. The game featured 18 fighting major penalties and 144 minutes in penalties.
The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in New York City. The Rangers compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Metropolitan Division in the Eastern Conference. The team plays its home games at Madison Square Garden, an arena they share with the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). They are one of three NHL franchises located in the New York metropolitan area; the others being the New Jersey Devils and New York Islanders.Founded in 1926 by Tex Rickard, the Rangers are one of the Original Six teams that competed in the NHL before its 1967 expansion, along with the Boston Bruins, Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs. The team attained success early on under the guidance of Lester Patrick, who coached a team containing Frank Boucher, Murray Murdoch, and Bun and Bill Cook to Stanley Cup glory in only their second season. They were the first NHL franchise in the United States to win the trophy, and are still the fastest true expansion team in NHL history to do so. The team would then go onto win two additional Stanley Cups in 1933 and 1940.Following this initial grace period, the franchise struggled between the 1940s and 1960s, wherein playoff appearances and successes were infrequent. The team enjoyed a mini-renaissance in the 1970s, where they made the Stanley Cup finals twice, losing to the Bruins in 1972 and the Canadiens in 1979. The Rangers subsequently embraced a rebuild for much of the 1980s and early 1990s, which eventually paid dividends in 1994, where the team, led by Mark Messier, Brian Leetch, Adam Graves, and Mike Richter, captured their fourth Stanley Cup.The team was unable to duplicate that success in the years that followed, and entered into another period of mediocrity. They endured a franchise-record seven-year postseason drought from 1998 to 2005 and languished for the majority of the 2000s before enjoying another period of prosperity after the 2004–05 NHL Lockout. After the arrival of goaltender Henrik Lundqvist, the Rangers thrived, missing the playoffs just once between 2006 and 2017. They reached the Stanley Cup Finals in 2014, falling to the Los Angeles Kings in five games.Several former members of the Rangers have been inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, four of whom—Buddy O'Connor, Chuck Rayner, Andy Bathgate, and Messier—have won the Hart Memorial Trophy while playing for the team.
The New York Rangers overcame a two-goal deficit to defeat the Florida Panthers 4-3 in a shootout, with Artemi Panarin scoring twice in regulation and netting the game-winner. Mika Zibanejad and Artemi Panarin scored in the shootout. Panthers were missing key players like Aleksander Barkov and Aaron Ekblad, while the Rangers were without Jacob Trouba, Ryan Lindgren, and Will Cuylle. The Rangers\' victory solidified their lead for the Presidents Trophy with 97th and 98th points of the season.
The Seattle Kraken played against the Anaheim Ducks in an NHL hockey game in Seattle on Thursday, March 28, 2024. Players such as Jaden Schwartz, Jordan Eberle, Ross Johnston, and Jakob Silfverberg were actively involved in the game.
This is a list of players who have played at least one game for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1926–27 to the most recent complete season.As of the completion of the 2018–19 New York Rangers season, a total of 932 skaters and 84 goalies have played for the Rangers in the 92 full seasons since starting in the 1926–27 New York Rangers season.
The Colorado Avalanche (colloquially known as the Avs) are a professional ice hockey team based in Denver. The Avalanche compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Central Division in the Western Conference. The team plays its home games at Ball Arena, which it shares with the National Basketball Association's (NBA) Denver Nuggets and Colorado Mammoth of the National Lacrosse League (NLL).Founded in 1972 as the Quebec Nordiques, the team was one of the charter franchises of the World Hockey Association (WHA). The franchise joined the NHL in 1979 as a result of the NHL–WHA merger. Following the 1994–95 season, they were sold to the COMSAT Entertainment Group and relocated to Denver.During their first season in Denver, the Avalanche won the Pacific Division and went on to sweep the Florida Panthers in the 1996 Stanley Cup Finals. The 1996 Avalanche became the first Denver-based team in the four major North American professional sports leagues to win a league championship. They were also the second major North American sports team to win a championship a year after relocating, joining the National Football League (NFL)'s 1937 Washington Redskins. In the 2001 Stanley Cup Finals, the Avalanche defeated the New Jersey Devils in seven games to win their second championship. In the 2022 Stanley Cup Finals, the Avalanche defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning in six games to win their third championship. As a result, they remain the only active NHL team that has won all of its appearances in the Stanley Cup Finals.The Avalanche have won twelve division titles since relocating to Denver (and set the league record for most consecutive division titles at nine in a row from 1995 to 2003; one in Quebec, the rest in Colorado), and qualified for the playoffs in each of their first ten seasons after relocation; this streak ended in 2007.
The 2021–22 Colorado Avalanche season was the 43rd season for the National Hockey League (NHL) franchise that joined the league in 1979, 26th playing season since the franchise relocated from Quebec prior to the start of the 1995–96 NHL season, and 50th season overall, including their play in the World Hockey Association (WHA), where the franchise was established in 1972.On April 5, 2022, the Avalanche clinched a playoff berth after a 6–4 win against the Pittsburgh Penguins. On April 16, the Avalanche clinched the Central Division along with the top seed in the Western Conference after a 7–4 win against the Carolina Hurricanes. They went on to earn 119 points, breaking the franchise record set in 2000-01.On June 6, the Avalanche swept the Edmonton Oilers to advance to their first Stanley Cup Finals since 2001. On June 26, 2022, the Avalanche won their third Stanley Cup and first since 2001 after they defeated the two-time defending champion Tampa Bay Lightning in the Stanley Cup Finals, in six games.
The 2024 National Hockey League All-Star Game was held on February 3 at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario, the home of the Toronto Maple Leafs. It was the first time that the four-team, three-on-three format used since 2016 was combined with the "fantasy draft" format used from 2011 to 2015. The fantasy draft took place on NHL All-Star Thursday, February 1, and was followed by the NHL All-Star Skills Competition on February 2. This was the 68th edition of the game.The team captains were chosen by the NHL: Auston Matthews of the All-Star Game-hosting Maple Leafs captained one team, Connor McDavid of the Edmonton Oilers captained the second team, Nathan MacKinnon of the Colorado Avalanche captained the third team, and brothers Jack Hughes of the New Jersey Devils and Quinn Hughes of the Vancouver Canucks co-captained the fourth team.Following this All-Star game, the NHL will instead hold a new 4 Nations Face-Off tournament in 2025, with the next All-Star Game taking place in 2026.
The Montreal Canadiens secured a victory over the Philadelphia Flyers with multiple goals scored by Nick Suzuki, Jesse Ylonen, and others during an NHL hockey game on Thursday, March 28, 2024, in Montreal. Goalies Cayden Primeau and Samuel Ersson were highlighted for their performance during the game.
Bo Horvat scored 41 seconds into overtime to give the New York Islanders a 3-2 victory over the Dallas Stars in new coach Patrick Roy\'s debut. Alexander Romanov and Hudson Fasching also scored for the Islanders. Jason Robertson and Nils Lundkvist scored for the Stars. Ilya Sorokin made 41 saves in the win. Roy, who previously coached the Colorado Avalanche, expressed his nervousness before the game and thanked the players for their effort. The Islanders tied the score 2-2 in the third period with Fasching redirecting a shot by Noah Dobson.
The 2022 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 2021–22 season and the culmination of the 2022 Stanley Cup playoffs. The series was between the Eastern Conference and two-time defending Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning and the Western Conference champion Colorado Avalanche. The Avalanche won the best-of-seven series, four games to two, for their third championship in franchise history. Colorado had home ice advantage in the series with the better regular season record.The series began on June 15, and concluded on June 26. With the Government of Canada allowing cross-border travel for fully vaccinated players and team personnel between Canada and the United States, the league was able to return to its usual two conference alignment and reinstate its standard playoff format that was used from 2014–2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic. The Finals were still pushed from the usual start date in late May/early June for the third consecutive year, this time due to a scheduled break in the regular season that coincided with the league's planned participation in the 2022 Winter Olympics, though the league's players ultimately did not participate in the Olympics. When NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman tested positive for COVID-19, NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly took over the presentation of the Conn Smythe Trophy and the Stanley Cup. This was the first time since 1992 that Gary Bettman did not give the presentation.
Mikko Rantanen\'s two goals and an assist helped the Colorado Avalanche secure a 6-1 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets, extending their winning streak to eight games and maintaining their first-place position in the Central Division. Cale Makar and Nathan MacKinnon also contributed with goals and assists, with MacKinnon boasting a 33-game home points streak. Alexandar Georgiev made 23 saves for the Avalanche. The Blue Jackets, led by Elvis Merzlikins, struggled to keep up with Colorado\'s offensive pressure, eventually falling to a 0-2-1 record in their past three games.
The history of the New York Rangers hockey team began in 1926 when the National Hockey League (NHL) granted a franchise to Tex Rickard, the founder of the team. The New York Rangers experienced early success, winning the Stanley Cup in only their second season of existence, and would go on to win two more in the next 12 years.After their Stanley Cup win in 1940, the Rangers then suffered through one of the longest championship droughts in NHL history, which became known as the Curse of 1940. The 54-year drought ended with a Stanley Cup win in 1994 by a team led by captain Mark Messier, Brian Leetch, Adam Graves and Mike Richter, all of whose numbers have since been retired by the team.
The 2023–24 Colorado Avalanche season is the 45th season for the Avalanche as the National Hockey League (NHL) franchise that joined the league in 1979, and their 28th playing season since the franchise relocated from Quebec prior to the start of the 1995–96 NHL season.
The Colorado Avalanche are a professional ice hockey team based in Denver, Colorado, United States. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Avalanche arrived in Denver in 1995 after playing since 1972 as the Quebec Nordiques. Since their arrival, over 190 players have played at least one NHL game for the Avalanche. Forty-one of those players have won a Stanley Cup championship with the Avalanche. Six of those players—Adam Foote, Peter Forsberg, Jon Klemm, Patrick Roy, Joe Sakic and Stephane Yelle—were members of both Cup-winning teams in 1996 and 2001. Joe Sakic is the franchise leader in goals, assists and points.Six former players have had their number retired by the Avalanche. Ray Bourque's #77 was retired November 24, 2001, Patrick Roy's #33 was retired October 28, 2003, long-time captain Joe Sakic's #19 was retired October 1, 2009, Peter Forsberg's #21 was retired October 8, 2011, Adam Foote's #52 was retired November 2, 2013, and Milan Hejduk's #23 was retired January 6, 2018. Six players have been inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame: Jari Kurri, Rob Blake ,Ray Bourque, Joe Sakic, Peter Forsberg, and Patrick Roy. Kurri and Bourque played only the final season of their careers in Colorado, while Roy arrived in the team's first season in Denver, remaining with the Avalanche until his retirement in 2003 as the NHL's all-time wins leader.
The 2023 Stanley Cup playoffs was the playoff tournament of the National Hockey League (NHL) for the 2022–23 season. The playoffs began on April 17, 2023, three days after the end of the regular season, and concluded on June 13, 2023, with the Vegas Golden Knights winning their first Stanley Cup in franchise history, defeating the Florida Panthers four games to one in the Stanley Cup Finals.The Boston Bruins made the playoffs as the Presidents' Trophy winners after setting the league record for the most wins and points in a single regular season. The Pittsburgh Penguins failed to make the playoffs for the first time since the 2005–06 NHL season, ending the NHL's and major North American sports' longest active playoff streak at sixteen consecutive seasons. The new longest active playoffs streak in major North American sports belonged to MLB's Los Angeles Dodgers, who qualified for the postseason every year since 2013. The longest active Stanley Cup playoff streak moved to the Boston Bruins and Toronto Maple Leafs at seven consecutive seasons after the Nashville Predators and Washington Capitals also had their eight-season playoff streaks end. As a result, this is the first time since 1976 that the longest active playoff streak was less than ten consecutive seasons. The Seattle Kraken became the second fastest NHL expansion team since 1991 to qualify for the playoffs, after the Vegas Golden Knights, and the first to clinch their inaugural playoff appearance in their second season in the league since the Quebec Nordiques in 1981. The Kraken also became the first NHL exclusive expansion team to make their first playoff appearance in their second season since the Atlanta Flames in 1974. All three New York metropolitan area teams (the Devils, Islanders and Rangers) made the playoffs in the same year for the first time since 2007. For the first time since 1990 and second time since entering the NHL as expansion teams in the 1967–68 NHL season, both Pennsylvania-based teams (the Flyers and Penguins) missed the playoffs in the same season.This postseason marked the second consecutive and fourth time overall that the league played 50 or more games in the opening round of the playoffs since this round was changed to a best-of-seven format in 1987. In addition, visiting teams in the first round went 31–19 overall to set a new league record for the most road wins in a single round. Among these opening round road victories, the Florida Panthers overcame a 3–1 series deficit to upset the Presidents' Trophy-winning Boston Bruins in seven games, the Seattle Kraken defeated the defending champion Colorado Avalanche in seven games to win their first playoff series, and the Toronto Maple Leafs eliminated the Tampa Bay Lightning on the road in game six to win their first series since the 2004 Eastern Conference quarterfinals.For the fourth consecutive year, a Florida-based team reached the Stanley Cup Finals. For the first time, the conference finals consisted exclusively of teams located in the Sun Belt, with the Florida Panthers and the Carolina Hurricanes in the Eastern Conference final, and the Dallas Stars and the Vegas Golden Knights in the Western Conference final.
The 2020 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 2019–20 season and the culmination of the 2020 Stanley Cup playoffs. This series was between the Eastern Conference champion Tampa Bay Lightning and the Western Conference champion Dallas Stars. The Lightning won the best-of-seven series, four games to two, for their second championship in franchise history. The Lightning had home-ice advantage in the series with the better regular season record. The series began on September 19 and concluded on September 28. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the entire series was played behind closed doors at Rogers Place in Edmonton. The pandemic resulted in the league suspending the regular season on March 12, 2020, and then scheduling a special 24-team playoff format to be held in two neutral "hub cities" (Edmonton and Toronto) that began on August 1. Thus it became the first Stanley Cup Finals to be played in the month of September.This was the first Stanley Cup Finals since 1925 to be played entirely outside the Eastern Time Zone, the first since 1928 to be played entirely in one location, the first since 1989 to be played entirely in Canada, and the first since 2011 to have the Stanley Cup awarded in a Canadian arena. This was the first Stanley Cup Finals since 1950 to feature a neutral site game and the first Stanley Cup Finals to feature two teams from the American Sun Belt (Texas and Florida).The Dallas Stars set the record for most playoff games played by a team in a single postseason at 27 games.
The 2022 Stanley Cup playoffs was the playoff tournament of the National Hockey League (NHL) for the 2021–22 season. The playoffs began on May 2, 2022, one day after the regular season ended, and concluded on June 26, 2022, with the Colorado Avalanche winning their third Stanley Cup in franchise history, defeating the Tampa Bay Lightning four games to two in the Stanley Cup Finals.With the Government of Canada allowing cross-border travel for fully vaccinated players and team personnel between Canada and the United States, the league was able to return to its usual two conference, four division alignment. As a result, the standard 16-team playoff format that was used before the COVID-19 pandemic from 2014–2019 was reinstated.The Florida Panthers made the playoffs as the Presidents' Trophy winners with the most points (i.e. best record) during the regular season. This was the final season of the Pittsburgh Penguins' 16-season playoff streak, the longest active streak in the four major North American professional sports leagues at the time. Three of the semifinalists from the previous season (the Montreal Canadiens, New York Islanders and Vegas Golden Knights) failed to qualify for the playoffs. The Los Angeles Kings ended a two-year run in which no teams from California qualified for the playoffs. All eight playoff teams from the Eastern Conference finished the season with at least 100 points, marking the first playoffs in NHL history in which all eight teams in a single conference qualified with at least 100 points.Florida's opening round series victory over the Washington Capitals was their first series win since the 1996 Eastern Conference finals. This postseason marked the third time that the league played 50 or more games in the opening round of the playoffs since this round was changed to a best-of-seven format in 1987. The first round featured five game sevens, the most in a single playoff round since 1992, when there were six game sevens in the division semifinals. On May 15, for the first time since 1997, and the second time in League history, both game sevens went into overtime. With their Conference Final series victory, the Tampa Bay Lightning became the third team in league history to win at least eleven consecutive playoff series; joining the Montreal Canadiens (1976–1980) and New York Islanders (1980–1984) in accomplishing this feat.
The 1995–1996 Colorado Avalanche season was the first season of the Nordiques/Avalanche franchise after moving from Quebec City to Denver. As a result, the Avalanche were assigned to the Pacific Division of the NHL's Western Conference.The season was marked by the bolstered acquisition of ex-Montreal captain Mike Keane and 6-time NHL All-Star and 3-time Vezina Trophy recipient Patrick Roy, who demanded a trade after feeling humiliated for being left in the net after having conceded 9 goals on 26 shots during a Canadiens game against the Red Wings. The acquisition of Keane coupled with the eventual veteran presence of Roy would prove to be a pivotal addition for Colorado in the years to come. The Avalanche finished the regular season as division champions and second overall in the conference, and advanced to the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time in team history against the Florida Panthers, whom they swept to capture the franchise's Stanley Cup title.
The New York Rangers and New York Islanders arrived at MetLife Stadium for their Stadium Series matchup in style, with the Rangers arriving in NYPD police cruisers and FDNY rigs alongside actual members of the departments, and wearing police and fire department-inspired sweaters, while the Islanders opted for a standard suit/jacket combo. Rangers forward Barclay Goodrow praised the coordinated outfits and the opportunity to share the moment with the service people. The Islanders, under Lou Lamoriello\'s rules, kept their apparel low-key but thanked the police and fire department for their support.
This is a list of seasons completed by the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League. This list documents the records and playoff results for all seasons the Avalanche have completed in the NHL since their relocation from Quebec in 1995. That year, they became the first NHL team and the second team in North American professional sports history to win a championship in the same season they moved to a new city.
Igor Olegovich Shestyorkin (Russian: Игорь Олегович Шестёркин, commonly spelled as Shesterkin; born 30 December 1995) is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected by the Rangers in the fourth round, 118th overall, of the 2014 NHL Entry Draft. In his first 82-game season in 2021–22, Shesterkin won the Vezina Trophy as the league's best goaltender.
The 2023–24 NHL season is the 107th season of operation (106th season of play) of the National Hockey League (NHL). The regular season began on October 10, 2023, and will end on April 18, 2024. The Stanley Cup playoffs are then planned to begin shortly afterwards, ending with the Stanley Cup Finals in June with the last possible date being on June 24, 2024.
The 2021 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 2020–21 season and the culmination of the 2021 Stanley Cup playoffs. The series was between the Montreal Canadiens and the defending champion Tampa Bay Lightning. The Lightning won the best-of-seven series, four games to one, for their second consecutive and the third overall championship in franchise history. Tampa Bay had home-ice advantage in the series with the better regular season record.Due to the COVID-19 pandemic that both shortened and delayed the start of the regular season, the series began on June 28, 2021, and concluded on July 7, 2021, marking the first time that games in the Stanley Cup Finals were held in July. The cross-border travel restrictions under the pandemic also forced the league to temporarily realign this season into four divisions with no conferences, putting all seven Canadian teams into one of those divisions. Consequently, a divisional-based postseason format was held, featuring intra-divisional matchups in the first two rounds. The four divisional playoff champions were then re-seeded by regular season points in the Stanley Cup Semifinals, with the winners of the Semifinals advancing to the Stanley Cup Finals. Under a normal playoff format, this finals matchup would be impossible, as both the Lightning and Canadiens compete in the NHL's Eastern Conference. However, under the temporarily realigned divisions, some had mixed conferences, which enabled this scenario.This was the first Finals since 2009 to be played entirely in the Eastern Time Zone, the first since 2011 to feature a Canadian-based team, the first since 2015 to end in a team winning the Stanley Cup at home, and the first since 2018 to require less than six games.This Finals matchup broke the Stanley Cup Finals record for highest combined seed between teams, with twenty-six (Tampa Bay eighth, and Montreal eighteenth). This record was previously held by the 1991 Stanley Cup Finals, which had a combined seed of twenty-three.
Vincent Trocheck (born July 11, 1993) is an American professional ice hockey center for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected by the Florida Panthers in the third round, 64th overall, of the 2011 NHL Entry Draft.
The Denver Nuggets are an American professional basketball team based in Denver. The Nuggets compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference. The team was founded as the Denver Larks in 1967 as a charter franchise of the American Basketball Association (ABA) but changed their name to the Rockets before the first season. The Rockets then changed their name again to the Nuggets in 1974. After the name change, the Nuggets played for the final ABA Championship title in 1976, losing to the New York Nets.The team has had some periods of success, qualifying for the ABA playoffs in every season of the ABA's existence, losing in the 1976 ABA Finals to the New York Nets. The team joined the NBA in 1976 after the ABA–NBA merger and qualified for the NBA playoffs in nine consecutive seasons in the 1980s and ten consecutive seasons from 2004 to 2013. In 2023, the Nuggets, led by Nikola Jokić and Jamal Murray, reached their first NBA Finals and defeated the Miami Heat to capture the franchise's first NBA championship. The Nuggets were the last of the four surviving former ABA teams to reach the NBA Finals, and the second former ABA team to win an NBA title (after the San Antonio Spurs). The Nuggets play their home games at Ball Arena, which they share with the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League (NHL) and the Colorado Mammoth of the National Lacrosse League (NLL).
The National Hockey League (NHL; French: Ligue nationale de hockey [liɡ nɑsjɔnal də ɔkɛ], LNH) is a professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 32 teams—25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. The Stanley Cup, the oldest professional sports trophy in North America, is awarded annually to the league playoff champion at the end of each season. The NHL is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada and is considered to be the top ranked professional ice hockey league in the world, with players from 17 countries as of the 2023–24 season. The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) also views the Stanley Cup as one of the "most important championships available to the sport". The NHL is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan.The National Hockey League was organized at the Windsor Hotel in Montreal on November 26, 1917, after the suspension of operations of its predecessor organization, the National Hockey Association (NHA), which had been founded in 1909 at Renfrew, Ontario. The NHL immediately took the NHA's place as one of the leagues that contested for the Stanley Cup in an annual interleague competition before a series of league mergers and foldings left the NHL as the only league left competing for the Stanley Cup in 1926.At its inception, the NHL had four teams, all in Canada, thus the adjective "National" in the league's name. The league expanded to the United States in 1924, when the Boston Bruins joined, and has since consisted of both American and Canadian teams. From 1942 to 1967, the league had only six teams, collectively (if not contemporaneously) nicknamed the "Original Six". The NHL added six new teams to double its size at the 1967 NHL expansion. The league then increased to 18 teams by 1974 and 21 teams in 1979. Between 1991 and 2000, the NHL further expanded to 30 teams. It added its 31st and 32nd teams in 2017 and 2021, respectively.The NHL is the fifth-wealthiest professional sport league in the world by revenue, after the National Football League (NFL), Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Basketball Association (NBA), and the English Premier League (EPL). The league's headquarters have been in Manhattan since 1989, when the head office moved from Montreal. There have been four league-wide work stoppages in NHL history, all occurring after 1992.The NHL's regular season is typically held from October to April, with each team playing 82 games. Following the conclusion of the regular season, 16 teams advance to the Stanley Cup playoffs, a four-round tournament that runs into June to determine the league champion. Since the league's founding in 1917, the Montreal Canadiens have won the most combined NHL titles with 25, winning three NHL championship series before the league took full exclusivity of the Stanley Cup in 1926, and 22 Stanley Cups afterwards. The reigning league champions are the Vegas Golden Knights, who defeated the Florida Panthers in the 2023 Stanley Cup Finals.
Nathan MacKinnon, All-Star forward for the Colorado Avalanche, left the game against the Florida Panthers after a headfirst fall that caused his chin to hit the ice; his status is currently unknown. The Panthers won the game 4-0, with goals from Carter Verhaeghe, Sam Reinhart, Eetu Luostarinen, and Aleksander Barkov. Sergei Bobrovsky made 35 saves for the Panthers, earning his third shutout of the season. MacKinnon has been held off the scoresheet for the third straight game and Coach Jared Bednar has not provided an update on his status.
See Full Box Score The Western Conference\'s two division leaders go head to head when the Vancouver Canucks play host to the Dallas Stars on Thursday. While the Pacific-leading Canucks (45-19-8, 98 points) have an eight-point edge in their quest for a division banner, the Stars (45-19-9, 99 points) are in a double dogfight. As they continue a four-game road swing, the Stars are just one point ahead of the Colorado Avalanche for the top spot in the Central. Plus, Dallas is among seven teams including the Canucks in the hunt for the Presidents\' Trophy as the top regular-season club. The Stars arrive in Vancouver riding a five-game winning streak after routing the San Jose Sharks 6-3 on Tuesday.
Chad James Ruhwedel (born May 7, 1990) is an American professional ice hockey defenseman for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL).
The NHL lockout may refer to any of the four industrial disputes in the history of the National Hockey League:The 1992 NHL strike, which postponed 30 games of the 1991–92 seasonThe 1994–95 NHL lockout, which cancelled many of the games of the 1994–95 season, including the All-Star Game and shortened the regular season to 48 games per team with no inter-conference gamesThe 2004–05 NHL lockout, which cancelled all of the games of the 2004–05 seasonThe 2012–13 NHL lockout, which cancelled many of the games of the 2012–13 season, including the All-Star Game and shortened the regular season to 48 games per team with no inter-conference games
Jack Roslovic (born January 29, 1997) is an American professional ice hockey player for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected in the first round, 25th overall by the Winnipeg Jets in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft.
Barclay Goodrow (born February 26, 1993) is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward and alternate captain for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL).Goodrow played his junior hockey over five seasons with the Brampton Battalion of the Ontario Hockey League, serving as captain in both the final season in Brampton and the first in North Bay. Although he remained undrafted throughout his years of eligibility, Goodrow was invited to attend the San Jose Sharks' Development Camp and subsequently signed with them. During his tenure with the Sharks, he played with their American Hockey League affiliate, the San Jose Barracuda, and helped them win their first series during the 2017 Calder Cup playoffs.During the 2019–20 season, Goodrow was traded to the Tampa Bay Lightning whom he helped win back-to-back Stanley Cups in 2020 and 2021. On July 17, 2021, with Goodrow approaching free agency, his signing rights were traded by Tampa Bay to the New York Rangers in exchange for a seventh-round pick in the 2022 NHL Entry Draft.
This is a list of broadcasters for the Colorado Avalanche ice hockey team.
The Florida Panthers are a professional ice hockey team based in the Miami metropolitan area. They compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference, and initially played their home games at Miami Arena before moving to the Amerant Bank Arena in 1998. Located in Sunrise, Florida, the Panthers are the southernmost team in the NHL. The team's local broadcasting rights have been held by Bally Sports Florida (formerly SportsChannel and Fox Sports Florida) since 1996. The Panthers are primarily affiliated with two minor league teams: the Charlotte Checkers of the American Hockey League (AHL) and the Florida Everblades of the ECHL.The Panthers began playing in the 1993–94 NHL season, where they set the record for the most points by an expansion team in its inaugural season until surpassed by the Vegas Golden Knights in 2017–18. The team has made two appearances in the Stanley Cup Finals, first in 1996, losing to the Colorado Avalanche, and again in 2023, this time losing to the Golden Knights. Between 1996 and 2020, the Panthers only qualified for the Stanley Cup playoffs five times, not winning a playoff series in that span. However, since the 2020–21 season, the Panthers have found success by winning their first playoff series in two decades in 2022, and reaching the Stanley Cup Finals the following year.
Cale Douglas Makar (born October 30, 1998) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman for the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected with the fourth overall pick by the Avalanche in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft.After two seasons in the NCAA with the UMass Minutemen, Makar debuted in the NHL in the 2019–20 season, making an immediate impact and winning the Calder Memorial Trophy as rookie of the year. In his second professional season he was nominated for the James Norris Memorial Trophy, awarded to the league's best defenceman, and won the Norris in the following 2021–22 season. Makar won the Stanley Cup with the Avalanche in 2022, winning the Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable player in the 2022 playoffs. He has been widely cited as one of the best defencemen and best players in the modern NHL.Internationally, Makar has played for Team Canada, winning gold at the 2018 World Junior Championships.
Miles William Wood (born September 13, 1995) is an American professional ice hockey forward for the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League (NHL). Wood was drafted by the New Jersey Devils in the fourth round of the 2013 NHL Entry Draft.
Sean Iain Walker (born November 13, 1994) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman for the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League (NHL). Undrafted, he previously played college ice hockey for Bowling Green State University where he was twice named to the All-WCHA Second Team.
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