Brent Lewis, The Denver Post)
The Avalanche again conducted a full-morning skate Friday at the Pepsi Center in advance of the game against Nashville, taking another step away from coach Patrick Roy's plan going into the season to only infrequently go through that NHL tradition on game day.
The experiment, if it can be called that, has evolved into sometimes having most players stay off the ice on individual days between games and do conditioning work, then having the game-morning skate.
Roy noted that the Avalanche was coming off an 8 p.m. Wednesday game against St.