The Colorado Avalanche has hit a snag on its potential climb to the top of the Central Division, and the most surprising part ...

Ryan Boulding: Colorado Avalanche forward Valeri Nichushkin is ... to determine if he’s good to go against the Hurricanes. Kaprizov has been out for 12 games with a lower-body injury.

With a little over a minute left in the second period, Colorado star Nathan MacKinnon made the Wild look silly when he deked ...

Without Kirill Kaprizov, Jonas Brodin and Jared Spurgeon, Minnesota played a smart, poised and gutsy game, pulling away in ...

The Wild are bringing Kirill Kaprizov and Jared Spurgeon back from injuries as the NHL season reaches the home stretch.

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For the second time in less than two weeks, the Colorado Avalanche had a chance to gain ground ... the Wild were missing their best player, MVP candidate Kirill Kaprizov, and two of their three best ...

This is the obvious one. Nathan MacKinnon leads the NHL with 68 points, seven more than Edmonton’s Leon Draisaitl in second ...

Yakov Trenin and Brock Faber scored goals 1:35 apart early in the third period, and the Minnesota Wild beat the Colorado ...

Following multiple weeks of absence due to injury, the Wild announced that star forward Kirill Kaprizov and ... to fend off the Dallas Stars and Colorado Avalanche in the Central Division race ...

He was seven points behind MacKinnon when Kaprizov last played Dec. 23. Voting totals (points awarded on a 5-4-3-2-1 basis): Nathan MacKinnon, Colorado Avalanche, 60 points (seven first-place votes); ...

MacKinnon is the most likely Avalanche player to take advantage of a Wild defense that is bleeding shots. Not only is he the ...