Thursday's Best Hitting Performances

The Colorado Avalanche beat the Winnipeg Jets 6-3 in Game 5 of the First Round of the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs on Tuesday night, April 30, 2024, at the Canada Life Centre in Winnipeg, Canada. With the win, the Avalanche won the series 4-1, and advance to the second round of the playoffs. Read the full game story here Want more Avalanche news?

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WINNIPEG — Mikko Rantanen found a stick he liked, and shot the Colorado Avalanche into the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The Winnipeg Jets played their best game of the series facing elimination, but the Avs continued to put pucks past the pending Vezina Trophy winner and advanced with a 6-3 victory Tuesday night in Game 5 at Canada Life Centre. Colorado won four straight in this series after dropping Game 1, and will now awaits the winner of Dallas-Vegas in the second round. “How hard we worked and how hard we battled this series was amazing,” Nathan MacKinnon said.

Leave it to the Rockies to ruin a couple of storybook endings. In one of the worst meltdowns in recent memory, the Rockies blew a 5-0 lead in the ninth inning and lost 7-6 to the woeful Marlins in 10 innings Tuesday night at loanDepot park. In losing again, the Rockies became the first team since 1900 to trail in each of its first 29 games. The Rockies lost to Houston on Sunday, joining the 1910 St.

AUSTIN, Texas — Mike Tyson’s fight against Jake Paul in Texas this summer has been sanctioned as a competitive boxing match rather than an exhibition, and the rounds will be shorter and the gloves will be heavier. The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation this week approved terms for the July 20 fight at AT&T Stadium in Arlington. Netflix will provide live coverage of the bout between the 27-year-old Paul, a social media star-turned-boxer, and 57-year-old Tyson, who hasn’t fought since an exhibition against Roy Jones Jr.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba — Winnipeg forward Vladislav Namestnikov and defenseman Brenden Dillon are recovering from injuries and won’t be available for Game 5 against Colorado on Tuesday night as the Jets try to avoid playoff elimination. Namestnikov fractured his cheekbone in Game 4 on Sunday when he was hit by a deflected puck on a shot.