The Colorado Avalanche had a chance Thursday night to regain some real separation between them and the Minnesota Wild, but faltered in a 5-2 loss at Ball Arena.

There aren’t many potential trade additions who could be better equipped to play with the world-class talent on the Colorado Avalanche than Brett Kulak.

SALT LAKE CITY — The Colorado Avalanche didn’t have superstar Nathan MacKinnon on Wednesday night, but they did have Parker Kelly and a bunch of other Olympians.

SALT LAKE CITY — Colorado Avalanche star Nathan MacKinnon will not play for the club in its first game back from the 2026 Winter Olympics break.

“For me, it just didn’t work out schedule-wise,” Brock Nelson said of his decision to skip the U.S. men’s team’s White House visit this week.

Show of hands if your wife has looked at you the way Nathan MacKinnon looked at that stuffed stoat. Heck, yeah, Brock Nelson put family ahead of Donald Trump this week. And good for him.