Hockey Mountain High Podcast

It's been the same story over the last several games, where a depleted Avalanche team puts out a strong performance and gets goalie'd out of a better fate. Some good news though, Artturi Lehkonen is …

The Avalanche are overloaded with injuries and struggling to put wins together, and two loses in a row to Tampa Bay and Nashville have left everyone frustrated with the unrelenting injury curse. Niki…

The Avalanche have reached the first ten game checkpoint of the season at 5-5-0, an even .500. Not bad after starting the season 0-4, but still plenty of room for improvement, even with the ever grow…

Just like that, the Avalanche are back to .500 after a four game win streak and sweeping the three game road trip with Seattle and Utah in their first ever visit to Delta Center. It's not much of a c…

The Avalanche have won not one, but two hockey games in a row with wins over the Anaheim Ducks and San Jose Sharks and officially on the board for the season. With the monkey off their back, can this…

The Avalanche are 0-4 to start the season, and that's not good to put it mildly. But the world is not ending yet, there are several reasons to view this as a simple losing streak and nothing more. Th…

The Avalanche's 2024-25 season is underway, but a 8-4 setback to the Golden Knights in the season opener has them asking questions about their goaltending after 7 goals against on just 20 shots for b…

The Avalanche's roster is finalized ahead of the regular season opener, with some major salary cap shenanigans already taking place. Ivan-Ivan and Kovalenko have seemingly been sent down and not on t…

The Avalanche are the busiest team in the NHL as the regular season approaches, trading Erik Brannstrom to the Vancouver Canucks after claiming John Ludvig from the Penguins as the defense continues …

It is T-Minus one week until the regular season, and there's still plenty of roster questions to be answered in the final batch of preseason games. Has Sam Malinski won a roster spot despite the defe…

The preseason is well underway, and some Avs have impressed already with the season less than two weeks away. More importantly for fans however, it's now actually possible to watch the games for the …

Logan O'Connor is going nowhere! LOC has signed a six year extension to remain an Av for the foreseeable future at $2.5M a season, which is more than reasonable. We'll list all the reasons why this d…

Happy training camp day! The Avs are back and so are we as we get ready for our fifth season of covering the Avalanche, but of course we missed a lot of things while on our break, so lets get ourselv…

It's the final episode of the season review/preview series, as now we look at players that have moved on to other teams. Bo Byram heads off to Buffalo at the deadline for Mittelstadt. Ryan Johansen c…

It wasn't the busiest offseason for new additions to this Avalanche roster, but the players that were brought in all could have a part keeping the Avs as Stanley Cup contenders this season. Erik Bran…

Alex Georgiev was easily the most frustrating part of the season, finishing with an .897 and forcing the team into several bad spots, but saved his job with a great playoff run against Winnipeg and D…

Sam Girard is so back. After coming back from the player assistance program, Sam Girard turned into the Avs most reliable defenseman on a nightly basis even if the numbers don't jump off the page. Ca…

Josh Manson finally had a healthy regular season and playoffs to show off what he means for the Avalanche's defense, was it his best season so far? Even with his ups and downs, how important will he …

After a breakout season that saw Logan O'Connor's best season ever in Colorado, can he replicate that season again after a season ending injury and going into a contract year? Is it at all possible f…

One year into a six year contract, Miles Wood proved to be a serviceable bottom six forward with incredible speed that contributed to a solid third line, but also an incredibly streaky player for lon…