The Colorado Avalanche hockey club announced Monday that the team has reassigned 13 players. The team's preseason roster is now at 32.

The Colorado Avalanche plays the Dallas Stars on Monday night at American Airlines Center in its fifth of six preseason games of 2017-18. The contest will be the Avs' third in as many nights after playing a home-and-home set with the Minnesota Wild on Saturday and Sunday.

The start time for Monday's exhibition game is 6:30 p.m. MT, and it can be heard on Altitude Sports Radio AM 950 or on ColoradoAvalanche.com.

DENVER--It took more than 50 minutes, but the Colorado Avalanche finally got its power play going.

Nathan MacKinnon scored twice with the extra man in the third period, and the Avs skated past the Minnesota Wild on Sunday night in a 5-1 preseason victory at Pepsi Center. Colorado improved to 2-2-0 in exhibition play while Minnesota dropped its first game of September (3-1-0).

The Colorado Avalanche continues its 3-in-3 preseason set on Sunday as the club hosts the Minnesota Wild at 5 p.m. MT at Pepsi Center.

It will be the second time in as many days that Colorado and Minnesota will play one another after the two squads met on Saturday in St. Paul. The Wild used two power-play goals to defeat the Avalanche 2-1.

Sunday's exhibition can be heard live on the Altitude Sport Radio Network, AM 950 in the Denver metro area, and online at ColoradoAvalanche.com.

Nikita Zadorov made himself known in his first preseason game of the 2017-18 campaign.

Just three days after arriving in Denver and one practice later, the defenseman was in uniform for the Colorado Avalanche in its contest at the Minnesota Wild.

It was Zadorov's first game in seven months after last playing on Feb. 19 against the Tampa Bay Lightning. He suffered a freak ankle injury the next day during practice when he got tangled up with a teammate and missed the remainder of the 2016-17 season.

The Colorado Avalanche lost 2-1 to the Minnesota Wild on Saturday at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota, in the club's third preseason game of the year.

Andrew Agozzino scored Colorado's marker and goaltender Jonathan Bernier made 22 saves in his first action of the exhibition schedule.

Pepsi Center has instituted a new bag policy for Colorado Avalanche games during the 2017-18 season.

Beginning in September, only soft-sided, personal-size bags and containers no bigger than 14" x 14" x 6" are allowed into Pepsi Center. All permitted bags are subject to search both upon entry and within the arena. 

The Colorado Avalanche begins three preseason games in three days on Saturday as it takes on the Minnesota Wild at 4 p.m. MT at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Altitude Sports Radio AM 950 will carry the live radio broadcast. The game won't be televised in Colorado, but Fox Sports North will broadcast the game in the Wild regional TV area.

CENTENNIAL, Colo.--It was a good news, bad news kind of day for the Colorado Avalanche.

The good news for the Avs on Friday was that several players that were dealing with minor injuries took part in a full practice and are expected to play in at least one of the team's next three preseason games. The bad news was that two of the club's young defensemen are now on the shelf. 

Nikita Zadorov didn't want to play anywhere else this season other than with the Colorado Avalanche. So any reports this past summer about him returning to Russia to play in the Kontinental Hockey League weren't true, according to the defenseman.

"I told [Avs general manager Joe Sakic] in July that I'm not planning on going to the KHL," Zadorov said. "It's not what I want. I want to play in the best league in the world."

Even the lure of playing for his home country in February's Winter Olympics couldn't sway him.