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The John-Michael Liles era may be coming to an end. Once a mainstay on Colorado's top defensive pairing, Liles has slipped to the third pairing in favor of players like Ryan Wilson, all the while his offensive numbers continue to decrease and his defensive lapses continue to be more glaring. Last game, after being on the ice for three of the first four Washington goals, Liles was benched for the entire third ...

The Avalanche franchise is only 14 years old, but there have been enough special moments and special players to begin to look back and reflect on the past. With the Avalanche starting the tradition of honoring one alumni member every month, I've decided to chime in with my opinion on who I believe are the greatest Avalanche players in history are. Begin Slideshow

Good things don't last forever. As is the case will all dominant sports team, each eventually fall back to Earth. In the Avalanche's case, their decent was highlighted by some mind boggling high risk, low reward trades. 5. March 9, 2004 - Colorado trades Tom Gilbert to Edmonton for Tommy Salo and a sixth round pick in 2005. The 2004 season was one in which David Aebischer seemingly secured Patrick Roy's starting job ...

At one point this season, Chris Stewart was in the minors and Matt Duchene was on an eight game goalless drought. Lately, they're the Avalanche's best players. The 18 year old Duchene and the 22 year old Stewart - mostly playing on the same line - carried the Avalanche through their road trip, the duo combining for 9 goals and 7 assists in only five games. The timeliness of their breakouts - particularly ...

A year ago, Peter Budaj was the talk of the Colorado Avalanche. With Jose Theodore departed through free agency, would Budaj be able to rise up as the Avalanche's starting net minder of the future? No, he wouldn't. Budaj, like most of the players on the team, struggled greatly. He finished the season with a career high 55 starts, but also had a career high in losses as he posted a 20-29-5 ...

When things are going bad, they're going bad. Following Colorado's 3-2 shootout loss to Minnesota (yet another game where they blew a 3rd period lead), the Avalanche learned they would be without forward David Jones for practically the rest of the year due to a torn ACL.  Late in the third period, Jones was skating with the puck when Wild forward Chuck Kobasew was pushed into him; Jones lost and edge, and ...

Even though the Colorado Avalanche franchise is only 14 years old, choosing the top five goals ever scored is a challenge. There have been so many great moments since the team moved to Denver, so let's hope I do a good job with my selections.   5. Joe Sakic against Dwayne Roloson (Mar. 28, '08) Game 79 of the season, with the team's playoff hopes hanging in the balance, the Avalanche were ...

Today the NHL announced that it has handed down a two game suspension to Philadelphia Flyers forward Daniel Briere for his hit on Scott Hannan last night. If you didn't see the hit, you probably weren't alone: your eyes were probably focused on the puck being shot in the net. As Hannan was watching the puck he just shot hit the twine, Briere blind sided him with a late hit, leaving his ...

Historically, the Colorado Avalanche haven't had a deep prospect pool. Sure, there was the occasional late-round pick that turned into a Milan Hejduk or a Chris Drury, but for the most part that Avalanche haven't bred any star players. That's not a knock on them; when you're a power house team, you trade away your first-round picks in order to make the best short-term team possible before a Stanley Cup ...

Just like that, the Peter Forsberg rumors come to an end. Well, at least for this season. Various sources report that the former Avalanche star is going to stay in Sweden to play for the financially troubled Modo of the Swedish Elite League. Rumors (there's that word again) are also floating around that former NHL star (and Forsberg's boyhood friend) Marcus Naslund will come out of retirement to also join Modo. Both players ...