One of the best players in the game is continuing to impress and is on pace to take home some more hardware. Colorado Avalanche forward Nathan MacKinnon is once again scoring at a torrid pace.

The NFL is not the only sport that is going to have an intense MVP debate. As the 2024-25 NHL season reaches its halfway point, the Hart Trophy (MVP) race is still extremely wide open with several contenders emerging.

The Top 100 People of Power & Influence in hockey are featured annually in The Hockey News' Money and Power issue, available at THN.com/free. At No. 58 is Colorado Avalanche center Nathan MacKinnon. Few are able to take over a contest like the reigning Hart Trophy winner.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Nathan MacKinnon had a goal and his NHL-leading 53rd assist of the season to help the Colorado Avalanche rout the Minnesota Wild 6-1 on Thursday night. Mikko Rantanan and Logan O'Connor also each had a goal and an assist ...

To mark the halfway point of the 2024-25 regular season, NHL.com is running its third installment of the Trophy Tracker series. Today, we look at the race for the Hart Trophy, given annually to the player adjudged to be the most valuable to his team in the NHL as selected in a poll by the Professional Hockey Writers Association.

It’s early January, and most NHL teams have played around 40 games– with the exception of the Tampa Bay lightning, of course, who had early season games postponed due to Hurricane Milton. The 2024-25 regular season is just about half over,

The Colorado Sports Hall of Fame has announced its Athletes of the Year, and the list includes some big names in Denver sports. The list was announced Thursday in a news release.

The NHL season is heating up. Battle lines are being drawn as teams showcase their strengths and weaknesses. With tonight’s slate of games offering plenty of action, we’ve crafted a pair of exciting same-game parlays (SGPs) to help you dive into the matchups and find value on the ice.

The Colorado Avalanche have found themselves in the middle of some abnormal rumors as one of their key superstars has appeared as a top trade candidate in the NHL. Mikko Rantanen may be in the final year of his contract,

Stars goalie Oettinger in his regular-season career is 5-3-1 against the Avalanche with a 3.05 GAA and a .914 save percentage. Dallas ranks 31st in the league in hits per game at 14.2. Colorado ranks 27th at 18.6.

The Avalanche face off against the Dallas Stars at 2 p.m. MT in their first afternoon game of the season. The team plays another matinee against the Minnesota Wild on Monday.