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Avalanche Beat the Blues 3-1 to Clinch Central Division and Top Seed in the Western Conference

Avalanche Beat the Blues 3-1 to Clinch Central Division and Top Seed in the Western Conference

Published by Sam Flores

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Valeri Nichushkin scored twice and Colorado Avalanche beat the St. Louis Blues 3-1 on Tuesday night to clinch the Central Division and the top seed in the Western Conference. It is the third time in five seasons, and first since 2023, that the Avalanche finished as the top team in the conference. Martin Necas also scored and Scott Wedgewood made 18 saves for Colorado, which has earned points in eight of its last 11 games. Wedgewood was shaken up midway through the third period after Philip Broberg made contact with him after being tripped by Sam Malinski. Wedgewood was driven awkwardly into the post and stayed down for several minutes, but remained in the game. Robert Thomas scored and Joel Hofer made 34 saves for the Blues, whose slim playoff hope took a hit with the loss. Colorado outshot St. Louis 17-3 in the first period and had a two-goal lead as a result. Nichushkin gave the Avalanche the lead with 3:49 left in the first and Necas made it 2-0 …

Retracing the fateful journey of the Tahoe avalanche victims

Retracing the fateful journey of the Tahoe avalanche victims

Published by Sam Flores

DONNER PASS, Calif. — After 5½ hours on backcountry skis, traversing the Sierra Nevada’s rapidly melting snowpack beneath a scorching spring sun, the guide at the front of our group stopped and went silent. He dropped to his knees, bowed his head and folded his hands in prayer. Out of breath, with my thighs burning from a long, steep descent, I was too tired to grasp what he was doing. Bouquets of flowers lie in the snow in the area where an avalanche claimed nine lives in February. Then I noticed the flowers lying in a shallow depression in the snow. We had arrived. At this remote spot in February, exactly one month earlier, 13 members of a guided backcountry ski trip were buried by an avalanche during a ferocious blizzard. Nine died, including three guides and six of their clients — local women, wives and working moms who had been friends for years — making it the deadliest avalanche in California history. A deadly path During a blizzard in mid-February, 13 skiers were buried in an avalanche …

NHL-Leading Avalanche Win 5-4 in Shootout to End Stars’ Franchise-Record 10-Game Winning Streak

NHL-Leading Avalanche Win 5-4 in Shootout to End Stars’ Franchise-Record 10-Game Winning Streak

Published by Sam Flores

DALLAS (AP) — Valeri Nichushkin scored with 15 seconds remaining in regulation, then made one of NHL-leading Colorado’s two shots in a shootout to beat Dallas 5-4 on Friday night, ending the Stars’ franchise-record winning streak at 10 games. Martin Necas had a goal and three assists for the Avalanche, then made the victory-clinching shot in the shootout after Nichushkin went first. The Avalanche still had an extra skater on the ice — after Stars captain Jamie Benn had missed an open net on his shot with just over a minute left in regulation — when Nichushkin’s 13th goal tied it. Nichushkin had shots ricochet off both posts earlier in the third period. Jake Oettinger had 25 saves for the Stars and Scott Wedgewood, his former backup in Dallas, stopped all 10 shots he faced throughout overtime before denying former teammates Jason Robertson and Matt Duchene in the shootout. Wedgewood took over in net for the Avs after Benn’s goal 1:52 into the second period put Dallas up 4-2 after only 11 shots against Mackenzie …

Dallas Stars vs. Colorado Avalanche 2026 livestream: How to watch NHL for free

Dallas Stars vs. Colorado Avalanche 2026 livestream: How to watch NHL for free

Published by skeptic

TL;DR: Live stream Dallas Stars vs. Colorado Avalanche in the NHL for free on 9Now. Access this free streaming platform from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN. The NHL action continues this weekend with a number of top games, including Dallas Stars vs. Colorado Avalanche. The Stars come into this fixture on a 10-game win streak, but they’re still behind the Avalanche in the standings. This top-of-the-table clash is going be electric, and you can follow all the action from the American Airlines Center without spending anything. If you want to watch Dallas Stars vs. Colorado Avalanche in the NHL from anywhere in the world, we have all the information you need. When is Dallas Stars vs. Colorado Avalanche? Dallas Stars vs. Colorado Avalanche in the NHL starts at 8 p.m. ET on March 6. This fixture takes place at the American Airlines Center. How to watch Dallas Stars vs. Colorado Avalanche for free Dallas Stars vs. Colorado Avalanche in the NHL is available to live stream for free on 9Now. Mashable Top Stories 9Now …

California’s Deadliest Avalanche Turned on One Choice

California’s Deadliest Avalanche Turned on One Choice

Published by José Betancourt

On the morning of the deadliest avalanche in California’s modern history, Cody Townsend was skiing above the west shore of Lake Tahoe. People like him, who live for untracked expanses of wilderness snow, had found little to celebrate this season. Across much of the American West, the temperatures had been high, and the hills bare and brown. According to the Central Sierra Snow Lab, operating from a cabin nearby, accumulation had been running seven feet below normal. But now snow was dumping. Dry, light flakes swirled around him, and with every turn, Townsend disappeared into great clouds of powder. It was the storm of the year in the Sierras, he would write that day. Yet something felt off. The wind was picking up. The temperature seemed odd. Townsend is a professional backcountry skier who learned the sport around Tahoe, and “it was just the consistency of the snowfall, the way that the flakes were coming down, the winds that were coming through, that had just something different, something I wasn’t used to,” he told me. …

An Avalanche Catastrophe as a Psychological Event

An Avalanche Catastrophe as a Psychological Event

Published by Jenni Sidey

In the past, avalanche tragedies were viewed mainly as natural events, with postmortem analysis focused mainly on physical factors such as snow load, slope angle, and weather conditions. As a result of an influential 2002 paper by avalanche writer Ian McCammon, it is now accepted that multifatality avalanche accidents are social phenomena, with the outcome (human deaths) attributable less to natural forces and more to bad decisions. The recent Castle Peak (California) ski tragedy, in which nine people lost their lives, offers an opportunity to test the validity of McCammon’s theory. The Event and Its Decision Points According to a New York Times interview with two male survivors, there were two parties: an all-female group of eight friends with two guides, and a male group of three strangers, also with two guides. Three of the guides were male, and one was female. The guides for both groups worked for a respected firm: Blackbird Mountain Guides, and the 11 customers paid around $1,500 each for a two-night stay at the Frog Lake ski “huts” (a misnomer, …

Bodies of all 9 skiers killed in devastating avalanche recovered

Bodies of all 9 skiers killed in devastating avalanche recovered

Published by Sam Flores

California search-and-rescue teams have recovered the bodies of all nine missing skiers killed Tuesday in a devastating avalanche in a remote region of Sierra Nevada north of Lake Tahoe. When a catastrophic avalanche rumbled over a stretch of the High Sierra, dozens of law enforcement officers scoured the mountainside for a group of 15 skiers, including four mountain guides. Within hours, crews rescued six survivors and discovered eight deceased skiers near the Frog Lake Backcountry Huts. Another skier was still missing, but was presumed dead. After five days of navigating deep snowpack and treacherous weather conditions, authorities announced they had found the body of the ninth victim. During a press conference on Saturday afternoon, Nevada County identified the victims as six skiers and three professional mountain guides: Andrew Alissandratos, 34, of Verdi, Nev., a Blackbird Mountain Guide Carrie Atkin, 46, of Soda Springs, Calif. Nicole Choo, 42, of South Lake Tahoe, Calif., Blackbird Mountain Guide Lizabeth Clabaugh, 52, of Boise, Idaho Michael Henry, 30, from Soda Springs, Calif., a Blackbird Mountain Guide Danielle Keatley, 44, …

Crews Recover Bodies of 9 Backcountry Skiers Days After California Avalanche

Crews Recover Bodies of 9 Backcountry Skiers Days After California Avalanche

Published by Sam Flores

TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) — Crews recovered the bodies of nine backcountry skiers who were killed by an avalanche in California’s Sierra Nevada, authorities said Saturday, concluding a harrowing operation that was hindered by intense snowfall. A search team reached the bodies of eight victims and found one other who had been missing and presumed dead since Tuesday’s avalanche on Castle Peak near Lake Tahoe. The ninth person who was missing was found “relatively close” to the other victims, according to Nevada County Sheriff’s Lt. Dennis Hack, but was impossible to see due to whiteout conditions at that time. At a news conference, Sheriff Shannon Moon praised the collective efforts of the numerous agencies that helped recover the bodies — from the California Highway Patrol to the National Guard to the Pacific Gas & Electric utility company — and 42 volunteers who helped on the last day of the operation. “We are fortunate in this mountain community that we are very tight-knit, and our community shows up in times of tragedy,” Moon said. The sheriff named …

Why skiers venture into avalanche terrain in Tahoe’s backcountry

Why skiers venture into avalanche terrain in Tahoe’s backcountry

Published by Sam Flores

For anyone who has stood freezing in an endless lift line at a ski resort, or flinched as some out-of-control “rad Brad” whooshes by like a Red Bull-and-vodka-fueled missile, the allure of backcountry skiing needs no explanation. Out there, far from the madding crowd, it can be just you and your friends, gliding through acres of untracked powder, surrounded by silent, untamed wilderness. Undoubtedly, that was part of the draw for the 15 people — four professional guides and their 11 clients — who went for a Presidents Day weekend adventure in the remote slopes north of Lake Tahoe, only to become victims of the deadliest avalanche in modern California history. After two days in the backcountry, they were struggling home through a blizzard on Tuesday morning when an avalanche that authorities said was the size of a football field swooped down and killed eight of them. Another is still missing and presumed dead. As soon as the skiers were reported missing, and before the enormousness of their loss was confirmed, rescuers, other professional ski …