Wojtek Wolski News

Shortly before the Joe Sakic retirement news conference began Thursday, a pack of young players filed into the Inverness auditorium and took seats in one of the back rows.

Won't be seeing Tony Granato on this bench anymore.... Yesterday afternoon, during a conversation with Sandy Clough and Mike Evans of FM 104.3/The Fan , Tony Granato, who'd beeen canned as head coach of your Colorado Avalanche a short time earlier, came across as the classiest of class acts, expressing gratitude to the franchise that treated him ...

The honours just keep coming for Cody Hodgson. But when you have had a burger named after you when you are only 18, you have to expect that.

The best leaders -- in sports, politics, anything -- give everything expected of them.

Occasionally, we all need a refresher course. So, we're offering a look back at the 2008 Stanley Cup Playoffs at no cost.

Chris Mason made 28 saves for his sixth shutout of the season, helping the St. Louis Blues take the sixth playoff spot in the Western Conference with a 1-0 win over the Colorado Avalanche on Sunday in the regular-season finale.

The Avalanche has three games, all at home, remaining in a lost season, beginning tonight against the Dallas Stars.

Mike Ribeiro resorted to some trickery in the final shootout attempt, skating in backward and then flipping a shot into the net off Peter Budaj to lift the Dallas Stars to a 3-2 victory over the Colorado Avalanche on Thursday night.

Joe Pavelski scored the only goal in the shootout and Evgeni Nabokov earned his 47th career shutout, as the San Jose Sharks moved closer to their first Presidents' Trophy with a 1-0 victory over the Colorado Avalanche at HP Pavilion.

T.J Galiardi scored twice, Peter Budaj made 20 saves, and the Colorado Avalanche snapped an eight-game losing streak with a surprising 4-1 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Sunday night.

Two out of three, in this case, is bad. The Avalanche will miss the playoffs for the second time in three years when its season ends next Sunday against St.

Montoya, recalled from the AHL on March 23, led the Coyotes to their third win in four games.

Denver Post sports writer Adrian Dater posts his Avs Mailbag on Mondays during the 2008-09 NHL season.

In its 4-1 loss to Vancouver on Friday, the Avalanche looked more like the Lake Erie Monsters than before - and that wasn't necessarily another qualitative judgment of its play at the tail end of a desultory season.

On a night when Colorado skated two forwards short of the full complement in a 4-1 loss to Vancouver at the Pepsi Center because Wojtek Wolski was ill and couldn't suit up, and then Ian Laperriere drew a game misconduct in the second period, the Avalanche probably could have used Ryan Stoa.

Milan Michalek pumped in the game-winner late in the second period, as San Jose defeated the Colorado Avalanche, 3-1, at HP Pavilion.

Sakic skates, closer to returning By GENE PRINCIPE Sportsnet.ca Joe Sakic will skate on his own a couple more times before joining the Avs at practice.

An inability to force shootouts may be costing the Edmonton Oilers some much-needed points.

The Avalanche look for their first win of their six-game Eastern Conference road trip in their final stop when they face the Islanders tonight in the only game on the NHL's docket Monday night.

Be the first to comment on this article... Lois Kalchman Special to the Star Wojtek Wolski would not have played hockey without charity from others.