It was the playoffs. It was Detroit. It was a chance to be in the starting lineup. So forward Cody McLeod, just a rookie that season, wasn't about to say no to Colorado Assistant Coach Tony Granato's ...

The streaking St. Louis Blues were no match for the surging Colorado Avalanche. Jean-Sebastien Giguere stopped a season-high 37 shots and Jay McClement scored the tiebreaking goal late in the second ...

SAINT PAUL, Minn. - "The locker room." "The people." "The team." Those are the three most common answers given when a player is asked what the hardest part about retiring from the game of hockey is.

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Red Wings defenseman Niklas Kronwall, who was taken off the ice on a stretcher Thursday night after being hit into the boards by Avalanche forward Cody McLeod, is being listed as day-to-day with a ...

Colorado Avalanche forward Cody McLeod was suspended for five games by the NHL on Monday for his hit along the boards on Detroit Red Wings defenseman Niklas Kronwall last week. Kronwall was carried ...