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DENVER — Avalanche defenseman Cale Makar does hockey like nobody else. At age 23, his skating, vision, passing, and shooting are beyond elite. They are supernatural.

Doneghey, who has replaced Mark Kelley as the head of the department, has told his staff to “buckle down and not leave any stone unturned” with five important second- and third-round picks coming up.

NEW YORK — There is no magic in this ice, or mystery in these walls. A Rangers goaltender does not automatically become a legend in this net, and not every New York forward is destined for glory.

The Denver Broncos are breaking records this week off the football field. The National Football League franchise is being sold to an ownership group that includes Rob Walton, one of the heirs of Walmart Inc.

The team was coached by Alain Vigneault, and the team was going nowhere. After years of pushing, pushing, pushing, trying its damnedest to win a Stanley Cup, the team would finish dead last in the NHL’s Metropolitan Division, eighth out of eight, and collect a paltry 77 points. The team…

EDMONTON, Alberta — Wearing a smile nearly as big as when he handed the Stanley Cup to Ray Bourque in 2001, Joe Sakic emerged from the Colorado locker room after Avs’ 6-5 victory against Edmonton. “It’s fun. But we’re not done,” Sakic told me Monday. “We need four more wins.”

The NHL playoffs are cruel, and Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl know it only too well.

Superstitions are not rare in sports, often time athletes eat the same meal before games or stick to a regimented routine to maintain continuity. Tiger Woods famously only wears red on Sundays, Michael Jordan wore his University of North Carolina college basketball shorts under his Chicago Bulls shorts and slugger…

They made quick work of the Oilers and will await the winner of the Rangers-Lightning series.