Colorado Avalanche owner Stan Kroenke is a Premier League champion for the first time in his life after Arsenal, owned by his Kroenke Sports & Entertainment company, secured their fate this week.
With the English side facing a Champions League final next week, it could have been a perfect month for him, but the Colorado Avalanche are at serious risk of messing that up.
Down 2-0 in the series, the Colorado Avalanche are hoping for a miracle to overcome their sizable Western Conference Finals deficit.
The series heads to Vegas for the final two games of the series, but there is a severe lack of optimism when it comes to the Avs right now.
Where Stan Kroenke's English coefficient is sky high in confidence, his Colorado-based hockey coefficient is rock bottom.
Stan Kroenke was painfully close to completing a perfect 'hat-trick'
Everything that Stan Kroenke touches turns to gold. We can officially say that now his professional sports teams have won championship titles across MLS, NHL, NFL, NBA and English Premier League.
- Arsenal - Premier League in 2026
- Colorado Avalanche - Stanley Cup in 2001, 2022
- Colorado Rapids - MLS Cup in 2010
- Denver Nuggets - NBA Championship in 2023
- Saint Louis Rams/LA Rams - Super Bowl in 2000, 2022
Arsenal won the Premier League this week, and they play the Champions League final next week. These two, along with the seemingly long-gone Stanley Cup for the Avs would have made the perfect 'hat-trick,' a term used in soccer to describe scoring three goals.
A chunk of his portfolio is successful in Colorado, so Colorado-based sports fans will be hoping that Stan takes it upon himself to save the Rockies one day... Hey, the guy can only work one miracle. Let that miracle be sending the Avs to the Stanley Cup.
Can the Avs still pull off the unthinkable?
Heading into this series, it would have been ludicrous to dub the Avs' chances as being unthinkable. If anything, given the past year they've had, it was a given. The Avs were one of, if not the favorites to win the Stanley Cup this year.
They didn't capitalize on having the home-ice advantage to begin the series, and now, they face an almost insurmountable challenge to even match the series in the closing two games.
Carter Hart hasn't made life easy for the Avalanche so far in the series, and he's not going to let up goals without a fight. It's going to take some magic to win the next game and make the series finale interesting, but if anyone can make a game interesting, it's the Avs.
One of Stan Kroenke's teams is going to touch silver for the first time in almost two decades this weekend. That much is confirmed. Let's hope the silver is contagious, and the knack for lifting trophies makes its way from London to Denver without jet lag.
The mile-high city has another mile to climb, and there's little time to begin the expedition now.
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