Frei: Fourteen years ago this week, Steve Moore played his final game for the Avalanche
Then it happened. With Todd Bertuzzi stalking Steve Moore coming up the ice, Bertuzzi threw a roundhouse punch from behind to …
Frei: Going into final month, Avalanche effectively controls its own destiny. That’s a major “W.”
The Avs are going into the final 17 games in control of their own playoff spot destiny. That's about all you can ask.
Frei: Is Duncan Siemens becoming more than an “organization” guy?
One of the more interesting moments in the Avalanche's potentially crucial win came when Siemens, cotton stuffed in what likely…
Frei: At least around here, the NHL trading deadline was much ado about very, very little
Joe Sakic wouldn't address whether the Avalanche got in the bidding for Ottawa's Erik Karlsson, who still is expected to be dealt…
Frei: Avalanche standing pat wouldn’t be irresponsible inertia
Going into Saturday’s games, the Avalanche, with 69 points, was only three out of the Western Conference’s second wild-card…
Frei: If the NHL stays home the next time, too, USA Hockey should go (completely) back to collegians
Realistically, if the NHL stays away, the USA should go all the way. Make Team USA all collegians. That's not a second-guess about…
An Olympian and the Olympics: Gateway’s Stephen Garbett
This is an Olympic success story, too – but not in the Disney movie sense.
Frei: With MacKinnon out, Kerfoot continues to show his (Ivy League) worth
Alexander Kerfoot didn't have a point in the Avalanche's first five games minus Nathan MacKinnon, but now has a goal in each of…
Frei: As MacKinnon skates closer to return, Avs at least have stayed in the hunt
The injured Nathan MacKinnon, who skated with the Avalanche at practice in a red/orange non-contact jersey Tuesday at Family…
Frei: Bowman Brothers homecoming part of Eagles’ last season as Avs’ ECHL affiliate
The Colorado Eagles have a comfortable lead in the ECHL's Mountain Division and two of the veterans playing under ECHL contracts…
Between the Pipes: Lakewood’s Nicole Hensley gets the nod for PyeongChang
This story originally appeared in Mile High Sports Magazine. Read the full digital edition. The neighbor kids loved to play street…
Frei: After win over Sharks, this is even more clear: The longer Bernier owns crease, the better off Avalanche will be
The longer Jonathan Bernier can hold down the Avalanche crease, on merit rather than injury-caused default, the better Colorado's…
Steamboat’s Bryan Fletcher, top U.S. hope in Nordic Combined, beat childhood cancer
Fletcher claimed the USA’s one guaranteed Nordic combined Olympic spot, pulling it off with a stirring recovery from a sub-par…
Through injuries and setbacks, Lindsey Vonn seeks the podium in PyeongChang
The four-time World Cup overall champion won Olympic gold in the downhill and bronze in the super-G in 2010 before missing the…
Arvada Air: Raised in the burbs, snowboarder Chris Corning hits it big slopestyle
Eightteen-year-old Corning is the Americans’ top hope in slopestyle and big air.
Interview: Homegrown DU Pioneer Troy Terry on his path to Olympic hockey
Troy Terry: "The Olympics are an incredible thing, a sacred athletic event, it’s so fun to watch. To be part of that would be so…
Mikaela Shiffrin looks to add Olympic gold to her already dominant season
Shiffrin has been dominating the World Cup circuit in the season leading up to the 2018 Games at PyeongChang.
Frei: Don’t let MacKinnon’s longer-than-expected absence knock Avs off course
The start of Nathan MacKinnon's two-to-four week absence from the lineup comes amid a testing stretch of the Colorado schedule so…
Frei: NHL and Avs will go back to work, not to Olympics, and DU’s Troy Terry will skate for USA
As the NHL staged its All-Star weekend, with Nathan MacKinnon as the Avalanche representative on the Central Division roster, one…
Frei: A tale of two Avalanche All-Stars, past and present
As the Avalanche went into the All-Star break with a two-game losing streak that does nothing to diminish the magnitude of its…
Frei: All Aboard! The Avalanche bandwagon is gaining momentum
Banished since the amazing 112-point season under Patrick Roy in 2013-14 -- an accomplishment diminished by the first-round…
Frei: Avalanche’s Matt Nieto still thanking grandpa for that first stick in Long Beach
When Matt Nieto was a kid in hockey-crazed Long Beach — OK, the hockey-crazed part isn’t true — his grandfather bought him a mini-…
Frei: Jonathan Bernier talks about answering the call in the Avalanche net
With Semyon Varlamov again out at least through the All-Star break, the challenge is for Jonathan Bernier, 29, to not only be the…
Frei: Humble Nathan MacKinnon doesn’t mind not getting recognized… at the mall
I told Nathan MacKinnon Friday he would hate the question, but I was going to ask it, anyway. Do you feel like you’re becoming…
Frei: What Avs are trying to get back to. Glory Days. Now try to get Springsteen out of your head.
This much we know: Whenever that next home Avalanche playoff game is, there will be six jerseys and numbers overhead. …