Hunter Miska won his first career NHL game and did so against his former team.The goaltender made 16-of-18 saves on Friday night to help the Colorado Avalanche break a two-game losing streak and earn a 3-2 win versus the Arizona Coyotes at Gila River Arena.
The Colorado Avalanche faces off against the Arizona Coyotes in the second game of a back-to-back set between the clubs on Saturday at Gila River Arena. The contest is the second of a four-game road trip for the Avs.On Friday, Colorado earned its 10th win of the campaign, defeating the Coyotes 3-2 to improve to 10-6-1. Mikko Rantanen kicked off the scoring for the squad, potting his team-leading fourth power-play goal of the year before also adding an assist. Nazem Kadri recorded his second three-point game of the season, finishing with a goal and two assists, while Andre Burakovsky registered a marker in his 400th career game. Netminder Hunter Miska earned his first-career victory, denying 16-of-18 shots.
Is avalanche the answer to a 62-year-old Russian mystery over 9 deaths?
26 Feb, 2021 04:00 AM
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An image of the hiking trip from January 28, 1959. Cameras and film were recovered after the hikers were found. Photo / dyatlovpass.com via The New York Times
New York Times
By: Ivan Nechepurenko and Alan Yuhas
Was it UFOs? Yeti? The KGB? The riddle of who or what killed nine young hikers has inspired conspiracy theories for decades. Two scientists now say a natural disaster may be to blame. What drove nine experienced hikers, some barefoot and almost naked, out of their tent and into the subzero cold and the tomblike darkness of the Russian wilderness in 1959?
The disaster triggered avalanches, burst glaciers and flooded rivers, devastating villages, roads, bridges and hydro-electric power projects (HEPs), and sweeping away over 250 locals and workers.
While 69 bodies have been recovered so far, authorities have declared 135 people still missing as “dead” and the huge rescue operation is now a recovery effort.
At the time of writing, 21 bodies have been pulled from the slush-filled 2.5 kilometre-long tunnel at the state-owned National Thermal Power Corporation’s (NTPC) Tapovan-Vishnugad project site, where about 30 workers were feared trapped.
The NTPC has been fined about US$80,000 for causing environmental damage by violating muck disposal site maintenance standards in the Tapovan area.