After Game 3, Valeri Nichushkin was suspended ... also acquired two centres before the deadline, Charlie Coyle for Casey Mittelstadt, as well as Brock Nelson from the Islanders.

Nichushkin (lower body) will be in the lineup versus Dallas on Saturday, per Meghan Angley of Guerilla Sports. Nichushkin sat out last Sunday's 4-2 win over Anaheim but had plenty of time to recover.

If trust is a two-way street, Valeri Nichushkin needs to stop kicking Stanley Cups to the curb. “We trust him. And that’s the management, the coaches — everybody trusts him,” Avalanche ...

DENVER — Valeri Nichushkin took strides to take his hard-checking, goal-scoring game to another level this season. Same with his life away from the rink, his Colorado Avalanche teammates ...