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Washington DC. By The Athletic Staff. Assistant coaches Ray Bennett and Nolan Pratt will assume head coaching duties until Bednar's return. The Avalanche are scheduled to play against the Stars tonight in Dallas, and Saturday night in Colorado. Colorado has one win in four preseason contests so far. The Saskatchewan, Canada native has a lifetime record of as head coach and is coming off three consecutive second-round playoff exits.

Avalanche's Bowen Byram out against Sharks after elbow to head. Ohio State lands in-state 5-star safety Sonny Styles. Log In. Real Time. Top News. Bednar is in his sixth season as Avalanche head coach since joining the team in August of More Headlines. I like to look at things as objectively as I can. We did a heck of a job getting into the second-round Game 7 that year we lost to San Jose. Two years ago we lost to Dallas — I loved our team. I think we ran into some injury issues in that second round that really hurt us — two goalies, Landy, EJ, guys we rely heavily on, and we lost.

It just is what it is. Nothing comes easy. If you can learn from it and plan accordingly. The Avalanche went on to compile a record during the postseason in Edmonton, coming within a Game 7 overtime period of advancing to the Conference Final.

Bednar became just the third Avalanche coach since the franchise relocated to lead the club to three straight playoff berths, joining Bob Hartley four, to and Marc Crawford three, to Bednar, 48, owns a Only Hartley has more wins in Avalanche history.

Bednar's victories rank fourth in franchise annals behind Michel Bergeron , Hartley and Crawford including one season with Quebec. The campaign will mark Bednar's 19th season of coaching professional hockey, 11 of which have been as a head coach. He posted a. Bednar was a finalist for the Jack Adams Award as the NHL's coach of the year during his second season behind the bench in He led the Avs to a berth in the Stanley Cup Playoffs with a record 95 points , a jump of 47 points from the previous year.

Colorado's point turnaround equaled the fourth-highest year-to-year improvement in NHL history. Bednar joined Harry Sinden as the only coaches in NHL history to record at least 20 more wins in their second season as a head coach than in their first with the first year being a full season.