Colleague Terry Frei is with the Avalanche in St. Louis, covering the 3 p.m. game against the Blues. Terry filed this story about the tragic death of former Avs forward Marek Svatos.
John Mitchell’s awkward situation of continuing to play for a team that tried to get rid of him has been embraced by Avalanche captain Gabe Landeskog. I had a conversation with Landeskog after Saturday’s 1-0 victory over Minnesota at the Pepsi Center — a game that began three hours after Mitchell cleared waivers.
Mitchell, 31, centered the fourth line against the Wild and afterward told me his 24-hour waiver experience was “brutal.