Forward Valeri Nichuskin (nih-SHOOS-kin) was said by many to have been the Avalanche\u2019s best player in the Stanley Cup Finals 2 years ago, scoring 4 goals and dishing off 2 assists.\u00a0 But after an incident last spring at the team hotel during the Seattle series, Nichuskin was removed from the property and didn\u2019t play in games 3 thru 7, as the Avs lost.\u00a0 But now Nichuskin is back with the Avs in training camp, and Coach Jared Bednar says he\u2019s determined the forward has settled whatever issues were going on, and is now ready to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Number 19 CU faces the the Number 10 Oregon Ducks in college football at Eugene tomorrow, Colorado hoping to remain undefeated against probably the best team they will have faced so far this season. Winless Colorado State keeps looking for its first victory, visiting Middle Tennessee State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Forward Valeri Nichuskin (nih-SHOOS-kin) was said by many to have been the Avalanche\u2019s best player in the Stanley Cup Finals 2 years ago, scoring 4 goals and dishing off 2 assists.\u00a0 But after an incident last spring at the team hotel during the Seattle series, Nichuskin was removed from the property and didn\u2019t play in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rnrsports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1539,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions\/1539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}