Subject: NHL Northwest Division

• Delegating Denver #8 of 56: Connecticut

  September 10, 2007

• Denver Blogs: The prettiest stimulus package ever

  Rocky Mountain National Park We read the local blogs so you don't have to, although we recommend it, 'cause there's some decent stuff in there sometimes. Send links we may have missed to this guy. At Colorado's national parks, free is the new fee this summer. (Colorado Independent) An (ahem) Avalanche of changes is falling on Denver's hockey team. (A Colorado Avalanche Blog) Colorado College: Where actually graduating happens. (5280)

  June 3, 2009

• Sports Town USA Sippin' on Some Sizzur

  October 18, 2007

• Avalanche Get the Band Back Together

  February 27, 2008

• Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad, Boogaard?

  April 7, 2008

• "The Iron League, Huh? Lotta Fights?"

  April 17, 2008

• Who's Scary Now?

  April 18, 2008

• Worst. Colorado. Sports. Week. Ever.

  May 5, 2008

• Buell Be Happy

  The Colorado Performing Arts Festival is fun and free.

  September 27, 2001

• Best acquisitions

  June 29, 2000

• Best Sports Team -- Professional

  March 29, 2001

• Off Limits

  June 14, 2001

• Driven by a Dad-Lad Bond

  June 14, 2001

• Avs Lead the Parade

  January 3, 2002

• Best Place to Watch Drug Deals on Your Lunch Hour

  April 4, 2002

• Best Av

  April 4, 2002

• A Gumper Stumper

  May 9, 2002

• Backwash

  June 6, 2002

• Drink of the Week

  September 19, 2002

• Best Coach -- Professional

  March 27, 2003

• Best Sports Team -- Professional

  March 27, 2003

• At last, the Avs give Mike Haynes something to scream about

  Mike Haynes, as seen in a 2004 photo by Brett Amole. Among the more distressing things about the Colorado Avalanche's mediocre season to date -- the team's currently last in the Northwest Division, a whopping 18 points beyond first-place Calgary -- is the precipitous decline in Altitude TV broadcaster Mike Haynes' chances to celebrate. Haynes, who was profiled in the 2004 Message column "On the Mike" -- is the Avs' secret weapon, especially from an audience standpoint, and while he's an excelle

  February 16, 2009

• Look Out!

  May 8, 2003

• Drunk of the Week

  January 15, 2004

• Drunk of the Week

  February 12, 2004

• Denver Blogs: A green Aspen?

  Photo courtest of Flickr.Can Aspen go green?Our daily slosh through the blogosphere. Send links here. Aspen: Where the beer flows like wine, and where they swear they're going green. (Colorado Independent) The Avs do their best Rockies' impression, shop Ryan Smyth. (Avs Talk) Colorado gets the shaft from the stimulus package. So that's why Obama signed the thing here. (5280)

  February 23, 2009

• Best Sports Team -- Professional

  March 25, 2004

• Best Happy (Hockey) Ending on TV

  March 24, 2005

• New Avs coach Joe Sacco's starpower deficit

  New Colorado Avalanche coach Joe Sacco in an image from the Avs' website. The Colorado Avalanche didn't wait long after the sacking of beleaguered good-guy coach Tony Granato to name his replacement. Yesterday, the team introduced new head man Joe Sacco, who most recently helmed the Lake Erie Monsters, the excellently named Avs' affiliate in the American Hockey League. From all reports, Sacco is a solid head man, and the promoting-from-within method has worked for the Avs in the past: Bob Hartl

  June 5, 2009

• As sad season ends, Colorado Avalanche fall off fan radar

  A Flickr photoAvs coach Tony Granato looking unhappy. The Colorado Avalanche ended their 2008-2009 season in appropriate fashion, winding up on the short end of a 1-0 loss to the St. Louis Blues -- and a sidebar about the game by Denver Post hockey scribe Adrian Dater is freighted with symbolism about the future. Joe Sakic, the heartbeat of the Avs through its incredible run of playoff appearances and Stanley Cup victories, participated in a sweater giveaway while clad in street clothes due to

  April 13, 2009

• Colorado Avalanche's Pierre Lacroix finds a scapegoat in GM Francois Giguere

  A Flickr photoDarcy Tucker, big buck-er. As noted in a blog yesterday, the end of a pathetic season by the Colorado Avalanche prompted a collective yawn by most mainstream sports fans -- a reaction that should worry Avs management. However, the person most likely to be punished for the team's performance -- coach Tony Granato -- managed to get through the past 24 hours relatively unscathed. Not so general manager Francois Giguere, who walked out of the team's HQ carrying his head. Why? As Denv

  April 14, 2009

• Head to Head

  Fox Sports Net wants to beat local TV stations at their own game.

  February 22, 2001

• Secret Agents

  The Colorado Avalanche season starts tonight.

  September 27, 2007

• Let's Bowl

  February 1, 2007

• Day-by-Day Picks

  From the week of September 29, 2005

  September 29, 2005

• Chad VanGaalen

  Friday, September 9, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

  September 8, 2005

• Fish Shtick

  The new, tastier Downtown Aquarium opens with some mouth-watering temptation.

  July 14, 2005

• The Message

  Pucked Up

  December 16, 2004

• Ice Follies

  Fans chill as pro hockey pucks up.

  October 28, 2004

• Northern Exposure

  Canada's Sam Roberts is determined to rock the Lower 48.

  October 7, 2004

• The Message

  Stan's Plan

  August 26, 2004

• Westword Music Showcase 2004

  Fifty bands. Ten stages. Five bucks. Be there.

  June 24, 2004

• The Message

  On the Mike

  March 11, 2004

• Cross-Dress for Success

  To Bill, with love

  January 8, 2004

• Year in Review: Pop Quiz

  Consider this your final exam on the past year. Cheating is encouraged, bribes will be accepted -- and grades will be posted at City Hall.

  December 25, 2003

• Equal Time

  Girls are no longer iced out of competitive hockey.

  November 27, 2003

• Paging Lord Stanley

  The rejuvenated Avs look like the real thing in the Pepsi Center.

  September 25, 2003

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  September 4, 2003

• Do former Avs coaches hold key to Patrick Roy's return?

  Patrick Roy. The Colorado Avs managed to work their way back onto the first pages of sports sections in recent days by leaking info about a meeting between legendary goalie Patrick Roy and Avs president Pierre Lacroix, presumably spurred by the open general manager position -- and the excitement this news generated increases the prospect of a return. Problem is, Roy's other former team, the Montreal Canadiens, are reportedly mooning after him, too. So who'll win his hand? The answer may lie in

  May 11, 2009

• Avs might pass on number three pick? Get the hell outta here....

  Matt Duchene. Last night, the Nuggets scored big in the NBA draft, landing North Carolina guard Ty Lawson without giving away a key player. But now comes word, from Denver Post hockey expert Adrian Dater, that the Colorado Avalanche, which has the number three pick in tonight's NHL draft, might shrug off its chance to make a similar splash by trading down. Avs chief scout Rick Pracey tells Dater, "I think we have a very tough call to make at No. 3. There are going to be two selections that we d

  June 26, 2009