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Colorado Eagles Return to Ice, Pick Up 1st Point
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Colorado Eagles are a professional AHL minor league hockey team playing in Loveland and affiliated with the NHL s Colorado Avalanche. This weekly notebook series takes a deep dive into the team.
The puck finally dropped on the Colorado Eagles season.
The AHL minor league affiliate of the Colorado Avalanche had their season abruptly halted last March due to the COVID pandemic. The Eagles also were delayed in getting their 2021 season started.
But alas, Eagles hockey is back.
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Colorado opened the season against the San Diego Gulls on Saturday (Feb. 13) and Sunday (Feb. 14). The Eagles lost both games 3-2.
Colorado will play each divisional opponent eight times in 56-game campaign by Callie Parmele @CallieParmele / ColoradoAvalanche.com
There are typically 82 contests in an NHL campaign, but one of the unique aspects of the 2020-21 season is that there are only 56 games scheduled for the regular season, making the margin for error that much slimmer. I mean I think you are just time crunched. You don t have as many games, so you have to be sharp and on point every single game you do have because if you fall behind there is not a whole lot of time to catch up, said Colorado Avalanche forward Nazem Kadri. That s our mentality here, it always has been get off to a good start. But I honestly don t mind playing every other day. I think playing in this league you got to have a quick mindset and being able to turn the p
Philipp Grubauer and Pavel Francouz prepare for the season opener by Ron Knabenbauer @RonKnab / ColoradoAvalanche.com
Scrimmaging during this year s training camp is crucial to get the Colorado Avalanche players into game situations before the season begins, but the simulated contests are especially important for the club s goaltenders.
With no preseason outings this year for the Colorado keepers to face random shots and get their timing right, Philipp Grubauer and Pavel Francouz are trying to get up to speed as quickly as possible in scrimmages before the real thing ensues on Wednesday versus the St. Louis Blues. I do think when you go from your summer skates to a structured team practice, you are seeing a lot more rubber I am guessing and then you are seeing game-situation drills which I think are real import
Philipp Grubauer, Gabriel Landeskog and Brandon Saad participated in practice on Friday by Callie Parmele @CallieParmele / ColoradoAvalanche.com
After forwards Gabriel Landeskog and Brandon Saad and goaltender Philipp Grubauer missed the first three days of training camp, the Colorado Avalanche players got back on the ice and participated in their first team practice of the season on Friday. The three Avs had been deemed unfit to play. Today was more kind of get-up-and-go the first part of practice and then it was special teams. It was good to be back out there again and felt good, said Landeskog. Honestly, I thought I was going to feel worse after a few days off the ice, but I felt pretty good.