Veteran defenseman Brad Stuart and partner Brandon Gormley will be scratched for the Avalanche in Thursday’s season opener at the Pepsi Center. That story and everything else we do — including our four-page, season-previous wrap that was published Thursday — is at denverpost.com/avalanche.
Here’s part of Patrick Roy’s morning press conference:
The three scratches (including F Mikhail Grigorenko) and backup goalie Reto Berra were the only guys on the ice at the morning skate. As we wrote from Wednesday, the Avs won’t normally skate in the morning on game days if they practice the previous day.