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There are only two certainties about the Hart Memorial Trophy in 2024: One player will win, and three fan bases will be mad. This is going to be one of the most fascinating awards in recent NHL history, and it could be one of the tightest Hart Trophy votes ever. Here is the simple truth: There are four players who deserve to win the NHL’s MVP, as voted on by the Professional Hockey Writers Association. In alphabetical order, Nikita Kucherov, Nathan MacKinnon, Auston Matthews and Connor McDavid have all had extraordinary seasons and would be worthy winners. In other seasons,…

What a waste. Ryan Feltner pitched the game of his career Saturday night, but the Rockies’ suspect bullpen collapsed, squandered a 6-1 lead, and Tampa Bay roared back for an 8-6 win at wind-battered Coors Field. The Rockies’ record is now 2-7. Only the 2005 club, which was 1-8 after nine games, has had a worse start to a season. Feltner struck out a career-high 10 and limited the Rays to one run on two hits over six innings. He walked two. “He threw the ball great, and he had really good fastball and had a lot of strikeouts with…

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Xcel shut off power to 55,000 Colorado customers across six counties Saturday for a controlled outage planned to last more than 24 hours, citing the dangerous wind conditions and wildfire risks this weekend. Some of the energy company’s customers in Boulder, Gilpin, Larimer, Douglas, Broomfield and Jefferson Counties will see planned outages starting around 3 p.m. Saturday that will continue at least through noon Sunday, according to an Xcel news release. “We are expecting potentially record-setting winds of up to 100 mph,” Xcel Energy President Robert Kenney said in a news conference Saturday afternoon. “Those are extraordinary winds. We’re doing this…

By SAMY MAGDY and SAM METZ (Associated Press) CAIRO (AP) — Israel’s military said Saturday it had recovered the body of a 47-year-old farmer who was held hostage in Gaza, while negotiators prepared for another round of talks Sunday on brokering a cease-fire and securing the release of the remaining hostages, six months into the war. Israel’s army said it found the body of Elad Katzir and believed he was killed in January by militants with Islamic Jihad, one of the groups that entered southern Israel in the Oct. 7 attack, killed more than 1,200 people and took about 250…

The Rockies are aware that Rays closer Pete Fairbanks called the balls stored in the humidor at Coors Field “horrible.” One Rockies pitcher, who asked not to be named, said, “It’s his first game here at Coors. Maybe it got in his head a little bit. That’s fine with us. We just go out and pitch and do our job. I’m not sure it does much good to go public like that.” Fairbanks was explaining why he suffered a ninth-inning meltdown, walking three straight batters, in a 10-7 loss to the Rockies Friday afternoon. He blamed the humidor. Specifically, he blamed…

Colorado House passes bill allowing supervised drug-use sites, but it still faces roadblocks A bill to allow supervised drug-use sites to open in willing Colorado cities cleared the state House for the second time in two years on Friday, but it faces a significant uphill battle in the face of opposition in the Senate and from Gov. Jared Polis.House Bill 1028 is Rep. Elisabeth Epps’ second attempt to allow what advocates call safe-use sites to open in Denver and other cities that allow them. The facilities would provide a place where people could legally use illicit substances under the supervision…

Xcel shut off power to 55,000 Colorado customers across six counties Saturday for a controlled outage planned to last more than 24 hours, citing the dangerous wind conditions and wildfire risks this weekend. Some of the energy company’s customers in Boulder, Gilpin, Larimer, Douglas, Broomfield and Jefferson Counties will see planned outages starting around 3 p.m. Saturday that will continue at least through noon Sunday, according to an Xcel news release. “We are expecting potentially record-setting winds of up to 100 mph,” Xcel Energy President Robert Kenney said in a news conference Saturday afternoon. “Those are extraordinary winds. We’re doing this…

Metro Denver and Colorado’s Front Range will be buffeted by extreme winds Saturday that threaten power outages as well as property and tree damage, and pose a high risk of fueling wildfires, the National Weather Service warned. As of Saturday morning, maximum gusts were expected to be in the 60 mph to 65 mph range in Denver, the 75 mph to 80 mph range in the foothills west of the city, and the 80 mph to 85 mph range in the Boulder and Estes Park areas, according to NWS forecasters. The full magnitude of the winds will depend on the…

Colorado Avalanche star Mikko Rantanen left the game during the second period of Friday night’s 6-2 loss in Edmonton and did not return. Rantanen went straight to the locker room after a hit from Oilers defenseman Mattias Ekholm just shy of four minutes into the second. He was trying to exit the defensive zone and Ekholm surprised him along the boards. Rantanen has left the game after this hit from Ekholm pic.twitter.com/tWuUHPNjYp — B/R Open Ice (@BR_OpenIce) April 6, 2024 The Avalanche announced Rantanen was out for the remainder of the game after he did not return for the third…