Sam Stanley planted his lawn chair in the grass outside the Pepsi Center Thursday an hour before the Avalanche season opener out of both excitement and necessity.
Because in a proud hockey city with championship history, and a 2019 team with legitimate title aspirations, a 17×10-foot projector screen posted outside the arena’s grand atrium was among the only certain places in Denver a hockey fan could watch the game.
Stanley, a 28-year-old Denver resident, called it “unfair” that subscribers to Comcast, DirecTV and Dish faced a continued Avalanche blackout Thursday night as the Altitude Sports TV dispute continues without resolution; a feeling shared among hundreds of frustrated folks who watched the game outside the Pepsi Center.