The big news out of Avalanche headquarters had nothing to do with Saturday night’s rematch with the Edmonton Oilers or anything else with the final few games down the stretch of this abysmal season. Rather, it had everything to do with the early part of next season.
The NHL announced Friday morning that the Avalanche will play in Stockholm, Sweden, with two games against the Ottawa Senators. The games, part of what the league is calling the 2017 SAP NHL Global Series (TM), will be played Nov. 10 and 11 at the Ericsson Globe in Stockholm.
Avalanche fans in Sweden (and there are a lot of them) will not only get to see their favorite team play meaningful games in their country, but they’ll presumably see countrymen such as Gabe Landeskog and Erik Karlsson, along with Carl Soderberg and Anton Lindholm.