The Avalanche is skating Wednesday at its Centennial headquarters and will host the Calgary Flames in a preseason game Thursday. The Avs will then travel to Vail to soak up some of that amazing Rocky Mountain air.
For fans interested in watching practice Saturday, it begins 11 a.m. at Dobson Ice Arena in the heart of Vail. Friday’s activities — team-bonding stuff — is private.
“It’s going to be awesome, something as a group, during the year, we can look back at and say it made us all come closer,” Avs captain Gabe Landeskog told me Wednesday morning.