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DENVER — Point to any number of shortcomings as a primary reason for the Avalanche’s dramatic malfunction toward the halfway point of the 2022-23 season: injuries, lack of organizational depth, a short offseason catching up in the form of fatigue.

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Coyotes have lost more games in a row than the Wild have dropped in the last month-plus.

BOSTON — The Bruins and Maple Leafs provided everything you could have hope for with a Saturday night divisional rivalry game that we see so few of these days.

DETROIT — After consecutive wins over elite teams such as Winnipeg and Toronto, this was unexpected.

SUNRISE, Fla. — The Florida Panthers were down in just 95 seconds Saturday, but for the second time in the last week — and only the fourth time all year — a deficit didn’t doom them.

The Kraken held Beniers back from the NHL one year longer than expected, and he has rewarded them with a fantastic rookie season. The Hawks would love if their ultra-slow path for Lukas Reichel leads to the same payoff.

An NHL future is essentially guaranteed for Vlasic, so he’s using this season in the AHL to be more experimental offensively and to test his limits.

PHILADELPHIA — The shirts belonged to his father when he was a hockey-obsessed teenager in Russia with dreams of reaching the NHL. The trading cards were pulled from his dad’s collection, the ones Dmitri Tertyshny thought of when he looked at opponents on the ice and marveled how his hockey…

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Discontent was the prevailing theme. Fans were unhappy and the team was reeling.