Attendance was 100 percent Wednesday at Family Sports, where the 21 available Avalanche players practiced for 28 minutes under the direction of coach Patrick Roy. Afterward, a handful of guys skated with assistant coach Tim Army for an hour. The significant snowstorm — we’re calling it a blizzard — didn’t prevent anyone from showing up on time. I heard Nathan MacKinnon and Matt Duchene even made it to the rink for off-ice workouts.
I had no problem getting to the rink either. But I did get stuck in my neighborhood on the way home. As for the Philadelphia Flyers, who visit the Pepsi Center on Thursday, they arrived in Denver early Wednesday morning, after blowing a 2-0 lead in the final minute of regulation and losing 3-2 in a shootout at Columbus.