September 21, 2025 • 10 mins
Your Avalanche beat the Utah Hockey Clu-I mean, Utah Mammoth by a score of 5-1 in Preseason Game #1! Highlights are here with Conor McGahey and Alex Rajaniemi on the call.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Colorado Avalanche are back in our lives, and it's
our pleasure to bring you preseason hockey a mile high.
So put on your listening sweaters for the abs and
mammoth force of nature versus extinct provociitian live here listening
pleasure around North America and around the world on the
Altitude Sports Radio Network, as Mariboulay played the end of
(00:23):
last year in monthreal.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Now we gotta bite at Centralize.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
It's Middleton and he's going toe to toe I believe
with Kevin Connaughton. Nope, I take that back. It's Curtis Douglas.
Douglas will throw it right right by Middleton, right by Douglas.
Helmet is off of Douglas, shuckloose by Middleton, right by Douglas,
right by Middleton, left by Middleton, trying to get squared
up for another haymaker swinging a.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Miss, and both big boys go down to the ice.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Curtis Douglas six foot nine, two hundred and forty two pounds,
Keton Middleton six foot six, two forty that's a heavyweight bounds.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
It's five hundred pounds of man meat going after it
right in the middle of here at Magnus Arena. You
had to expect that younger players trying to make an
impact getting on too rosters much lake Curtis Douglas, the
twenty five year old out of Ontario. It's tough when
your first fight of the year has to go against
a guy as big as keithon Middleton.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Carconi again turns it in front two.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
On zero savement by Wedg, but not once, but twice
and maybe even thrice as nice.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Scott with.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Three great saves on the power play to keep his
time at zero. With a buck twenty to go in
the man invented for Utah Shordan englishan statement by Wedgswood
didn't know who the rebound was and right on que
Carconi is able to knock in the rebound and the
zero up. I take that back. The one Utah fan,
there's always one now, I'm only counting that as one.
(01:55):
Is that to celebrate the tamer play goal at the
eleven minute mark of the first period, it's one nothing
man Big Wedgewood.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Made three Grade A saves, one after the other after
the other. Carconi walks off the short side goal line,
puts a shot that was seemingly I guess kind.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Of toothless and hits Wedgewood right in the chest.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
He lost it in his paraphilia, drops down onto the
crease and the abs are just out manned.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Down load and the Ambulanche's second power play. Kaylee mccar
charging ahead across the Utah line pine side Hash March
works to the corner. Now back hands it for Goosen
near side half while the car sends it all the
way through to the landiskog up top for Brinley. He's
got room to stewed. Let's it go tipped and Valanciuskin
can't get there. Utah's down his stick. Baldwin had it
snapped in two bouncing bucks sandled down by Kaye mccaarr.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
He's at the deep slot.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
The car is shot maybe purposely missed off the end
wall and rolls back to him because again Baldwin can't
get a fresh twig. It's a long way to the
Utah bench. Macr has it back, lets it go say
made rebound is there and Gavin Brentley suits and scars.
Gavin is happen his first goal in an Avalanche uniform.
(03:07):
It's a power play goal. And Ladies and gentlemen, boys
and girls of all ages. This is a tie hockey game.
It's such a heads up play for Cale mccarr.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
There all starts with him in the corner setting the
cross eyed saucer pass to get the power play set up.
And then after the stick breaks half or stick break
happens for Utah, what does mccarr do. He demands the
puck on the strong side of the zone to attack
the player with no stick, and when they do that,
all four Utah defenders come over to the puck.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Cale shoots far pad and rebound opportunities right there. For
Gavin Brittley, he's.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Bumped by a cannonton and this guy trying to take
the puck with him. Now Brintley turns it up top here.
Cy Middleton thought about a sean looking for the deflection
from Landi's gotten that rattles.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Why how much for.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
The Avs missing that ability to tip pucks in the
front of the net.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
And they got one right here.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
No stradamis hellick trying Emmy Nord's god of hockey. Gabelandskog
tips it in front. No, he says it's clean.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
End.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
The captain in a giving mood and he gives Gavin
Brindley his second goal of the period.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Colorado takes a two to one league.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Maybe a tip from Landeskog that sits on the goal
line that Brittley ends up hammering home here, But Landy
certainly is net front.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
No, he let it go. I don't think he touched it.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
He lets it go. That just goes off the top
of the right goalies fads.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I think gave Landeskog makes a better door than a window.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Sometimes you don't have to get the stick on it,
just be in front of the goalies.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Eyes McCart through center ice, hit by Barons, kicked loose
by bound the Chewshkin far sideboards. He'll turn back towards
the point that Cheoskin escapes. Now for Cail mccarr passing escape,
throws it in front Goushin captain in tick tacte Daniel Gushin,
and the goals are gushing here in the second period
for the Colorado Avalanche, not even six minutes in, they've
(04:59):
scor forward three in a row to make a three
to one over the Monmut.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Starts with Sean Barn's moving the puck through the neutral
zone to Valeria to Jeushkin, a cheeky little kick with
his right skate back to his stick, goes to the
far side to kill mccarr and Danil gooshit. You didn't
have that guy in San Jose. Maybe that's the reason
why he didn't stick in here with the Sharks.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Number eight. To cheat code, all you have to do
is get to.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
The net front seven to twenty five to go on
our second period, Kale mccar.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Reverse hit and knocks him down to the ice.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
He big fall hard kil mccarr with the Peter Fordberg
reverse hit, and that's what you get if you come
at the king. Kal mccarr had he big lined up
waiting for him to initiate the contact for about twelve
yards and he big fell flat on his face.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Addard went in for the hit, cut off by middle Ted.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
He's got the puck behind the avalanche net land of
Scott now for magnet threw center eyes chopped at by
Dodo Man. Now it's slapped into the Utah zone but
not very deep by Addert. Fanned on by Dude to
take him back by a latinis gaggo bringing himself splits
the DP backhander. Noliscot Nielsen gets the reward of the
(06:16):
beautiful pass from Landiskog. Kristin Nielsen has summed in the
show for his effort tonight.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
It's full one abalee that's hurting you or.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
How you turn a deficit into a goal? Right there,
back to back icings.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Nielsen finds a way to beat him fourhand back in
through the five hole and gave Leneskog through the neutral zone.
There's three Utah defenders within a stick length from it.
He doesn't panic, he doesn't try and send it early.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
What does he do? He finds the triangle, slides it
through I believe.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
It was Marino's feet if I'm correct, and finds Tristan
Nielsen on the backside.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
It's a beautiful play from the captain.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
That's not a rookie defenseman either, and that's John moreno Is.
Actually his best year for his was his rookie season
in Pittsburgh. Six goals, twenty six points. The Landiscog as
he tends to do, making it look easy. In the avalanche,
I now scored four straight goals to take a four
(07:14):
to one lead. Kil mccar blocks this pass, tried to
skate it out of the zone. He takes a shot
right in the face. Cal mccar is down penalty, coming
up to Utah and it's going to be Sam Lipkin
as cal mccar gets hit in the face, and that's
the last thing that you want to.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
See in a preseason game.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
He's at least up and skating towards the bench is
cal mccarr. But Sam Lipkin recklessly came in to that
collision with Cale mccarr and now Lamarux across the red
line back for Perunovich nearsideboards, tosses a bancann in between
the circles.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Lipkin has it'stlen away by Magne.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
He'll work it across center ice and now we gotta
fight Lipkin going with Landiscock.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Landiscock says, don't you dare hit.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
The best defenseman on planet Earth, the Norse Gona hockey Landiskog,
and a tussle with Lipkin right by Landiskok, right by
Landis Kok yer.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Cut by Landis Kog.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Get down to the ice, Gog, Lipkin Lichtgen sad coming
from a mile away. And when you see a sweetish
freight train and you're tied to the tracks, you know
what the end story is gonna be.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
What did we say, after that hit, you lead with
a flying elbow against maybe the best player on planet Earth, there's.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
A chance that you're gonna have to answer it.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Did I think that it was gonna be Gabriel Landiskog
that was gonna answer that bill? No, Wide did not.
But that's the thing about him. He doesn't care if
it's a preseason game. He doesn't care if it's a
playoff game. If there is a question that needs to
be answered, the captain is going to be that man.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Here comes Utah Taijiginlo.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
What a say made by Bosch, don't go gadget leg.
The left leg of Isaac Posh is just that could not.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Be more plush here than his best save of the night.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Six minutes to go in the thirties, up to two
on one, Posh stands tall again.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Here's a chance.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Nielsen choots and scores his second goal of the game,
and Tristan Nielsen makes it five one Colorado with five
and a half to go. You didn't expect that to
squeak through the wickets, but you have a nice save
(09:24):
on one end from Posh that leads to an odd
man rush on the other end. Valnachushkin sets up Tristan Nielsen.
He has two, the Apps have five.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Two goals.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Swings are what can to kill you in this game.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Nielsen, for me, has been one of the most impressive
players on the ice from start to finish. Valachushkin now
gets his third assist in the game. I'd be okay
with number thirteen not playing another minute for the rest
of the five and a half that we've got to go.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Nielsen and Brinley Patrick watch two seconds ago one second
selln the horn. The Avalanche start off the preseason in
style on nothing but never out. They score five unanswered
to beat the Utah Mammoth five to one.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
It's a really solid night all around. Vanachushkin puts five
shots on goal. He has three assists in the game.
A player that I really wanted to shine brightly this evening,
playing alongside Gabe Laniskog shows up with two goals and
six shots on net and Gavin Brindley Laneskog throws the
gloves down because cal mccarr takes a high elbow to
the head.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
This had everything you wanted.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
If you're one of the four and a half thousand
fans or so that we're here inside Magnus Arena. You
got five AVS goals, you got Power Play goals, and
you got number ninety two, dropping the gloves and fighting
in front of the home faithful
The Colorado Avalanche are back in our lives, and it's
our pleasure to bring you preseason hockey a mile high.
So put on your listening sweaters for the abs and
mammoth force of nature versus extinct provociitian live here listening
pleasure around North America and around the world on the
Altitude Sports Radio Network, as Mariboulay played the end of
(00:23):
last year in monthreal.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Now we gotta bite at Centralize.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
It's Middleton and he's going toe to toe I believe
with Kevin Connaughton. Nope, I take that back. It's Curtis Douglas.
Douglas will throw it right right by Middleton, right by Douglas.
Helmet is off of Douglas, shuckloose by Middleton, right by Douglas,
right by Middleton, left by Middleton, trying to get squared
up for another haymaker swinging a.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Miss, and both big boys go down to the ice.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Curtis Douglas six foot nine, two hundred and forty two pounds,
Keton Middleton six foot six, two forty that's a heavyweight bounds.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
It's five hundred pounds of man meat going after it
right in the middle of here at Magnus Arena. You
had to expect that younger players trying to make an
impact getting on too rosters much lake Curtis Douglas, the
twenty five year old out of Ontario. It's tough when
your first fight of the year has to go against
a guy as big as keithon Middleton.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Carconi again turns it in front two.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
On zero savement by Wedg, but not once, but twice
and maybe even thrice as nice.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Scott with.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Three great saves on the power play to keep his
time at zero. With a buck twenty to go in
the man invented for Utah Shordan englishan statement by Wedgswood
didn't know who the rebound was and right on que
Carconi is able to knock in the rebound and the
zero up. I take that back. The one Utah fan,
there's always one now, I'm only counting that as one.
(01:55):
Is that to celebrate the tamer play goal at the
eleven minute mark of the first period, it's one nothing
man Big Wedgewood.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Made three Grade A saves, one after the other after
the other. Carconi walks off the short side goal line,
puts a shot that was seemingly I guess kind.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Of toothless and hits Wedgewood right in the chest.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
He lost it in his paraphilia, drops down onto the
crease and the abs are just out manned.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Down load and the Ambulanche's second power play. Kaylee mccar
charging ahead across the Utah line pine side Hash March
works to the corner. Now back hands it for Goosen
near side half while the car sends it all the
way through to the landiskog up top for Brinley. He's
got room to stewed. Let's it go tipped and Valanciuskin
can't get there. Utah's down his stick. Baldwin had it
snapped in two bouncing bucks sandled down by Kaye mccaarr.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
He's at the deep slot.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
The car is shot maybe purposely missed off the end
wall and rolls back to him because again Baldwin can't
get a fresh twig. It's a long way to the
Utah bench. Macr has it back, lets it go say
made rebound is there and Gavin Brentley suits and scars.
Gavin is happen his first goal in an Avalanche uniform.
(03:07):
It's a power play goal. And Ladies and gentlemen, boys
and girls of all ages. This is a tie hockey game.
It's such a heads up play for Cale mccarr.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
There all starts with him in the corner setting the
cross eyed saucer pass to get the power play set up.
And then after the stick breaks half or stick break
happens for Utah, what does mccarr do. He demands the
puck on the strong side of the zone to attack
the player with no stick, and when they do that,
all four Utah defenders come over to the puck.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Cale shoots far pad and rebound opportunities right there. For
Gavin Brittley, he's.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Bumped by a cannonton and this guy trying to take
the puck with him. Now Brintley turns it up top here.
Cy Middleton thought about a sean looking for the deflection
from Landi's gotten that rattles.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Why how much for.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
The Avs missing that ability to tip pucks in the
front of the net.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
And they got one right here.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
No stradamis hellick trying Emmy Nord's god of hockey. Gabelandskog
tips it in front. No, he says it's clean.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
End.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
The captain in a giving mood and he gives Gavin
Brindley his second goal of the period.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Colorado takes a two to one league.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Maybe a tip from Landeskog that sits on the goal
line that Brittley ends up hammering home here, But Landy
certainly is net front.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
No, he let it go. I don't think he touched it.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
He lets it go. That just goes off the top
of the right goalies fads.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I think gave Landeskog makes a better door than a window.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Sometimes you don't have to get the stick on it,
just be in front of the goalies.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Eyes McCart through center ice, hit by Barons, kicked loose
by bound the Chewshkin far sideboards. He'll turn back towards
the point that Cheoskin escapes. Now for Cail mccarr passing escape,
throws it in front Goushin captain in tick tacte Daniel Gushin,
and the goals are gushing here in the second period
for the Colorado Avalanche, not even six minutes in, they've
(04:59):
scor forward three in a row to make a three
to one over the Monmut.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Starts with Sean Barn's moving the puck through the neutral
zone to Valeria to Jeushkin, a cheeky little kick with
his right skate back to his stick, goes to the
far side to kill mccarr and Danil gooshit. You didn't
have that guy in San Jose. Maybe that's the reason
why he didn't stick in here with the Sharks.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Number eight. To cheat code, all you have to do
is get to.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
The net front seven to twenty five to go on
our second period, Kale mccar.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Reverse hit and knocks him down to the ice.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
He big fall hard kil mccarr with the Peter Fordberg
reverse hit, and that's what you get if you come
at the king. Kal mccarr had he big lined up
waiting for him to initiate the contact for about twelve
yards and he big fell flat on his face.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Addard went in for the hit, cut off by middle Ted.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
He's got the puck behind the avalanche net land of
Scott now for magnet threw center eyes chopped at by
Dodo Man. Now it's slapped into the Utah zone but
not very deep by Addert. Fanned on by Dude to
take him back by a latinis gaggo bringing himself splits
the DP backhander. Noliscot Nielsen gets the reward of the
(06:16):
beautiful pass from Landiskog. Kristin Nielsen has summed in the
show for his effort tonight.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
It's full one abalee that's hurting you or.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
How you turn a deficit into a goal? Right there,
back to back icings.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Nielsen finds a way to beat him fourhand back in
through the five hole and gave Leneskog through the neutral zone.
There's three Utah defenders within a stick length from it.
He doesn't panic, he doesn't try and send it early.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
What does he do? He finds the triangle, slides it
through I believe.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
It was Marino's feet if I'm correct, and finds Tristan
Nielsen on the backside.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
It's a beautiful play from the captain.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
That's not a rookie defenseman either, and that's John moreno Is.
Actually his best year for his was his rookie season
in Pittsburgh. Six goals, twenty six points. The Landiscog as
he tends to do, making it look easy. In the avalanche,
I now scored four straight goals to take a four
(07:14):
to one lead. Kil mccar blocks this pass, tried to
skate it out of the zone. He takes a shot
right in the face. Cal mccar is down penalty, coming
up to Utah and it's going to be Sam Lipkin
as cal mccar gets hit in the face, and that's
the last thing that you want to.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
See in a preseason game.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
He's at least up and skating towards the bench is
cal mccarr. But Sam Lipkin recklessly came in to that
collision with Cale mccarr and now Lamarux across the red
line back for Perunovich nearsideboards, tosses a bancann in between
the circles.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Lipkin has it'stlen away by Magne.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
He'll work it across center ice and now we gotta
fight Lipkin going with Landiscock.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Landiscock says, don't you dare hit.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
The best defenseman on planet Earth, the Norse Gona hockey Landiskog,
and a tussle with Lipkin right by Landiskok, right by
Landis Kok yer.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Cut by Landis Kog.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Get down to the ice, Gog, Lipkin Lichtgen sad coming
from a mile away. And when you see a sweetish
freight train and you're tied to the tracks, you know
what the end story is gonna be.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
What did we say, after that hit, you lead with
a flying elbow against maybe the best player on planet Earth, there's.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
A chance that you're gonna have to answer it.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Did I think that it was gonna be Gabriel Landiskog
that was gonna answer that bill? No, Wide did not.
But that's the thing about him. He doesn't care if
it's a preseason game. He doesn't care if it's a
playoff game. If there is a question that needs to
be answered, the captain is going to be that man.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Here comes Utah Taijiginlo.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
What a say made by Bosch, don't go gadget leg.
The left leg of Isaac Posh is just that could not.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Be more plush here than his best save of the night.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Six minutes to go in the thirties, up to two
on one, Posh stands tall again.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Here's a chance.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Nielsen choots and scores his second goal of the game,
and Tristan Nielsen makes it five one Colorado with five
and a half to go. You didn't expect that to
squeak through the wickets, but you have a nice save
(09:24):
on one end from Posh that leads to an odd
man rush on the other end. Valnachushkin sets up Tristan Nielsen.
He has two, the Apps have five.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Two goals.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Swings are what can to kill you in this game.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Nielsen, for me, has been one of the most impressive
players on the ice from start to finish. Valachushkin now
gets his third assist in the game. I'd be okay
with number thirteen not playing another minute for the rest
of the five and a half that we've got to go.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Nielsen and Brinley Patrick watch two seconds ago one second
selln the horn. The Avalanche start off the preseason in
style on nothing but never out. They score five unanswered
to beat the Utah Mammoth five to one.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
It's a really solid night all around. Vanachushkin puts five
shots on goal. He has three assists in the game.
A player that I really wanted to shine brightly this evening,
playing alongside Gabe Laniskog shows up with two goals and
six shots on net and Gavin Brindley Laneskog throws the
gloves down because cal mccarr takes a high elbow to
the head.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
This had everything you wanted.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
If you're one of the four and a half thousand
fans or so that we're here inside Magnus Arena. You
got five AVS goals, you got Power Play goals, and
you got number ninety two, dropping the gloves and fighting
in front of the home faithful
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