On Denver as a hockey market:

“I think it’s fantastic. I think our attendance is coming back up. The most exciting thing for me to see really is the evolution of our fans. When I first started coming to games back when I moved here in 2007, the (jerseys) were Joe, Patty, Adam, it was the greats of Stanley Cup teams past. And now when I look down, I see a lot of MacKinnon, a lot of Duchene, a lot of Landeskog. So I think the fans are evolving with our group, and I think there’s a really good team out there that competes for the city, represents the city well, and it’s fun to see the fans moving towards our new guys as well.”

-Josh Kroenke, president of the Colorado Avalanche. More from Kroenke by Terr Frei of All Things Avs.