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DENVER -- Who played well in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final? Sometimes it's easy to tell, sometimes it isn't. NHL.com graded the players in the 3-2 victory by the Tampa Bay Lightning against the Colorado Avalanche at Ball Arena on Friday. The Avalanche lead the best-of-7 series 3-2 with Game 6 on Sunday. Here are the players and trends that stood out the most.

DENVER -- The Stanley Cup was in the building, ready to be awarded to the Colorado Avalanche. The fans roared for it all night, hoping for a celebration, anticipating one. "WE WANT THE CUP!" they chanted. "WE WANT THE CUP!" But the Tampa Bay Lightning weren't ready to give it...

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DENVER -- It was all laid out so perfectly for the Colorado Avalanche. Coming home to Denver having captured a game at Amalie Arena in Tampa, with the chance to close out the Stanley Cup Final, the stands shaking and the fans cheering and the Cup in their grasp. Except...

Colorado Rockies (31-40, fifth in the NL West) vs. Minnesota Twins (39-33, second in the AL Central) PITCHING PROBABLES: Rockies: Antonio Senzatela (3-3, 4.42 ERA, 1.76 WHIP, 27 strikeouts); Twins: Chris Archer (1-3, 3.44 ERA, 1.30 WHIP, 40 strikeouts) FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Twins -190, Rockies +163; over/under is 9 runs.

DENVER -- If the Tampa Bay Lightning need a clutch goal in the third period during the Stanley Cup Playoffs, Ondrej Palat is the one scoring it. Palat tallied the game-winning goal at 13:38 of the third period on Friday night, allowing the Lightning to avoid elimination with a 3-2 victory over the Colorado Avalanche in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Finals and sending the series back to Tampa.

Ondrej Palat gave Tampa Bay a 3-2 Game 5 lead and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 35 saves in a win, extending the Stanley Cup Final and three-peat bid. Palat's one-timer from between the circles rattled between the pads of Darcy Kuemper before sliding over the goal line. Jan Rutta and Nikita...

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The Stanley Cup was in the building on Friday in Denver, and the Colorado Avalanche were ready to skate it around the ice for the third time in franchise history. The party will have to wait. The Tampa Bay Lightning spoiled things and got right back into the series. Ondrej...

A group of protesters was marching through Capitol Hill in Denver into the evening on Friday night after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the federal right to abortion. Joshua Short reports.

The Stanley Cup final isn’t a best-of-four series. If it was, the Avalanche would have been skating around Amalie Arena with the chalice over their heads after their overtime victory Wednesday in Tampa. It takes four wins to claim the NHL’s championship trophy, and the last is the hardest...

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DENVER — Despite the odds. Despite the altitude. Despite the momentum. The Lightning are coming home. Despite the injuries. Despite the exhaustion. Despite the onslaught. The Lightning are coming home. Despite any semblance of what might pass for common sense in a situation like this. Holy crap, the Lightning...

By the time the dust settled for the Denver Nuggets on Thursday’s NBA draft night, the team had acquired four new rookies, most of them developmental projects, without making any trades aimed at upgrading the roster in the short term to boost their title contention chances. It was the...

More money, more revenues. The Tampa Bay Lightning and the National Hockey League will collect more cash thanks to the two-time defending champs extending the Stanley Cup Final with a Game 5 win over the Colorado Avalanche at Ball Arena in downtown Denver Friday evening. The series shifts to downtown...

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People across the U.S., including in Denver, were protesting the U.S. Supreme Court's decision that overturns the federal right to abortion. Matt Mauro reports.