Multiple media outlets reported Monday morning that Dave Hakstol is leaving the Colorado Avalanche for Arizona State.

The Avs confirmed that Hakstol has received permission to speak with the university, but he was expected to travel with the team to Dallas after practice.

“We’ve granted him permission to talk,” Avs head coach Jared Bednar told reporters. “(President and general manager Joe Sakic) thinks it is important, and we think it’s important that we do that — let him feel it out. Then we’ll just kind of go from there.”

Hakstol just began his second year as an assistant on Bednar’s staff. He replaced Ray Bennett, who was fired after a first-round playoff loss to the Dallas Stars in 2025.

Arizona State coach Greg Powers was placed on leave late last month. A Sun Devils player, 21-year-old Matthew Mayich, collapsed during an offseason workout Aug. 20 and remains on life support at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix. A family attorney said Mayich is unlikely to recover.

The Avs play Tuesday night in Dallas and then Wednesday back in Denver against the Stars. Hakstol replaced Bennett as power-play coach last season, and the Avs finished 27th in the league at 17.1 percent. For the second straight season, the Avs’ power play went cold at a critical postseason juncture.

Hakstol spent 11 seasons as head coach at his alma mater, North Dakota, before moving to the NHL. He took over as the Philadelphia Flyers coach in 2015 and led the team to two playoff berths in three seasons before the team fired him 31 games into the 2018-19 season. He led the Seattle Kraken for three seasons, starting in 2021, leading the team to one playoff appearance.

Hakstol became head coach at North Dakota in 2004 and led the program to seven Frozen Four appearances in 11 seasons, including wining a national title in 2010-11 and an NCAA runner-up finish in his first season.

Hakstol also served as an assistant coach for Canada’s national men’s team in 2017 and 2019.

The latest Premier League Mornings Live Fan Fest is heading to Denver, Colorado in October, with the Mile High City welcoming our studio show, Premier League legends, huge watch parties and so much more.

MORE – Click here to learn more details about the Fan Fest in Denver

Denver will be home to the 13th Fan Fest event, as cities all across the United States of America have hosted in recent years with Tampa Bay, Kansas City, Chicago, Nashville, Orlando, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Miami, Austin, Boston, New York and Washington D.C. hosting events.

It is going to be one big Premier League party in Denver.

PL fans will be able to watch our live broadcasts of matches with fellow fans and as always there will be a whole host of activities and special guests lined up too.

Below are all the details you need for the Premier League Fan Fest in Denver, Colorado this October.

FAN FEST IS COMING TO DENVER! pic.twitter.com/O6UKQ72NTB

— NBC Sports Soccer (@NBCSportsSoccer) August 21, 2026

When is the Premier League Fan Fest in Denver, Colorado?

The dates for the Fan Fest are Saturday October 10 and Sunday October 11, 2026

How can I get tickets for the Premier League Fan Fest in Denver?

Click here to register to attend, and for full details on how to be at the Fan Fest.

Where is the Premier League Fan Fest in Denver, Colorado?

The event will be held at Union Station, with NBC Sports’ live studio show taking place in the iconic venue in downtown Denver.

Premier League schedule, dates, kick off times for Fan Fest weekend

Here are the dates and kick off times for the Premier League games taking place during Fan Fest weekend in Denver, Colorado, so you can plan everything out.

Saturday 10 October 7:30am ET: Arsenal v Leeds United 10am ET: Aston Villa v Brentford 10am ET: Chelsea v AFC Bournemouth 10am ET: Ipswich Town v Fulham 10am ET: Sunderland v Brighton & Hove Albion 12:30pm ET: Manchester United v Tottenham Hotspur

Sunday 11 October 9am ET: Crystal Palace v Nottingham Forest 9am ET: Hull City v Everton 11:30am ET: Liverpool v Manchester City

Monday 12 October 3pm ET: Coventry City v Newcastle United

An office tower south of Denver sold to two Colorado-based commercial real estate companies.

Louisville-based Real Capital Solutions and Greenwood Village-based Dunton Commercial purchased Terrace Tower in the Denver Tech Center for an undisclosed amount on Oct. 9. The companies said in a statement that they acquired the office tower “at a fraction of replacement cost.”

“The repricing of office real estate continues to create compelling opportunities for investors with the capital and experience to be selective,” RCS Chief Acquisitions Officer Adam Abeln said in the statement. “We’re focused on high-quality assets with durable cash flow that can be acquired well below replacement cost. Terrace Tower is a strong example of the opportunities we’re pursuing.”

Built in 1984, Terrace Tower is an approximately 243K SF office building at 5619 DTC Parkway. It last sold in 2012 for $37.8M to Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada, according to Arapahoe County property records. The county appraised the office tower at $34M this year, property records show.

The 12-story Class-A office building underwent $10M in capital improvements in 2021, including a new roof and upgrades to its lobby, fitness center, tenant lounge, conference rooms and building system.

Terrace Tower was 72% occupied at the time of purchase, on par with occupancy rates throughout the Denver metro. The average lease in the building is for 7.2 years, RCS and Dunton Commercial said in a statement. Tenants include branches of the U.S. General Services Administration, Vitesse Energy and Holmes Murphy.

Dunton will oversee Terrace Tower’s leasing, operations and management. This is Dunton’s sixth office purchase in the Denver area. The company owns and manages about 5M SF of office, retail and industrial space in Colorado.

Terrace Tower is RCS’ 15th office acquisition since 2024. The company has acquired about 900K SF of office space in the Tech Center corridor over the last two years, including Belleview Tower for $20M, 116 Inverness Drive E. and MetroPoint I and II for $22M.

Buying Terrace Tower is part of RCS’ investment strategy and comes as the company targets $400M for its first investment fund. Capital from the fund will be used to acquire discounted office properties across the U.S., according to RCS. CEO Marcel Arsenault put forth $50M to start the new fund earlier this year.

Office market recovery from the pandemic has been uneven and varies by location and asset class. Overall U.S. office vacancy sits at 18.3%, according to CBRE’s second-quarter office report. Denver’s office vacancy hovers between 22% and 28.8%, according to recent reports from Marcus & Millichap and CBRE. The vacancy rate in the southeast suburban office market, including the Denver Tech Center, is about 20%, according to TRE.

Vacancy rates, rising interest rates and loans that are coming due have caused several Denver office buildings to sell at a discount. In late September, the Regency Plaza building at 4643 S. Ulster St. sold for about $57M, about 20% less than what the previous owner spent on the 335K SF building in 2019. Last year, two office towers at 1625 and 1675 Broadway sold for about 97% less than what the previous owner paid in 2013.

A year ago, the Colorado Avalanche stormed through the first half of the season with an incredible level of focus and determination.

If the Avs didn’t already know, repeating that kind of performance is pretty hard.

The Avalanche carried the play for long stretches Saturday night at Ball Arena, but mental mistakes and blown defensive coverages turned an at-times unlucky evening into a 6-3 defeat at the hands of the Toronto Maple Leafs.

“For the most part we played a decent game, but then we made some mistakes and they got some Grade-A chances and they buried them,” Avs forward Artturi Lehkonen said. “So, we need to make less mistakes.”

Colorado’s offense looks formidable through five games, at least at even strength. The Avs have scored 26 goals in five games, though the power play has gone cold again after a promising opening night.

Defensively, there have been issues at times, something that just bludgeoning the other team with goals can cover up. But not when Maple Leafs goalie Sergei Bobrovsky had a strong night, and not when both special teams had a rough one.

The Avs have proven they can win lots of games with dominant 5-on-5 play and a strong penalty kill, even if the power play doesn’t help. But they can’t win as consistently with the mistakes they made Saturday night.

“I wasn’t disappointed with the number of chances we gave up. I just did not like some of the chances,” Avs coach Jared Bednar said. “Just mental mistakes, that’s what it was. It wasn’t from lack of effort or lack of trying. It was mental mistakes, and when they got their chances, they capitalized on them.”

Former Avs defenseman Nick Blankenburg snuck down from the right point on Toronto’s first goal, and there wasn’t anyone in a home sweater near him. Ditto for William Nylander’s second goal on the power play — he was all alone at the left post with all four Colorado penalty killers puck watching on the right side of the ice.

Four of the five goals Toronto scored on goaltender Mackenzie Blackwood came directly after “royal road” passes — ones that start on one side of the offensive zone and cross to the other side.

“We’re looking to tighten things up every day, but it was mental mistakes for me,” Bednar said. “I’m not going to tell you who they are, but we had a couple players who made multiple mental mistakes that led to really good scoring chances.”

Two late second-period goals swung the game in Toronto’s favor. Colorado dominated much of the period, but Nylander and Easton Cowan scored 50 seconds apart and both goals involved breakdowns.

Brett Kulak turned it over on a failed clearing attempt that started the possession that led to Nylander’s second goal of the night. Nick Paul made a great play to knock the puck out of the air along the wall near the right point.

Colorado’s top line had to scramble back and no one picked up Nylander, who had drifted out from behind the net to set up in the high slot. Then Nylander carried the puck into the Avs’ zone, and the home side covered the initial rush with no trouble, but the Leafs moved it from the left circle to Cowan at the far side for a wide-open one-timer with far too little resistance.

“The chances that we do give up are way too dangerous,” Avs captain Gabe Landeskog said. “You look at the two goals they score at the end of the second — one is an F3 (the highest forward in the offensive zone) shot between the hash marks and the other is a seam across to a one-timer. Just too dangerous to give up to a team like this.”

While the Avs have scored 26 goals and felt like they could have scored even more in the two games they’ve lost, Colorado has also now allowed three or more in four of the five contests. Those defensive details — sorting out rush coverage, identifying who to pick up in scramble-drill situations, not falling asleep when the puck is on the other side of the ice — were nails for the Avs last year when they raced to a 31-2-7 start.

Expecting something similar to that historic start wasn’t fair. But this is one of the challenges for this specific Avalanche team.

This team believes it is good enough to win the Stanley Cup. It also knows the Cup isn’t awarded for starting 31-2-7. Fighting against human nature and dialing in as frequently as possible has to be a goal. Every team will have off nights. The Avs had stunningly few in the first half of last season.

Yes, Blackwood and the power play weren’t good enough. But the offensive effort at even strength could have been enough to overcome, were it not for the mistakes.

“Again, it’s not the number. It’s just sort of the quality and the type of breakdown,” Bednar said. “For me, could have easily been solved with a little awareness and a little talk and it wasn’t there. So we’ve got to get better at it.”

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Three brothers, younger than 30, turned a love for family meals into a thriving restaurant group across Denver.

DENVER — When launching a food truck in 2018, Alonso Saenz never expected to scale the business to five restaurants in a matter of just eight years. He also never expected the business to become a family endeavor, but his story became one that he now shares with two brothers. Together, the three of them own five restaurants -- all before the age of 30.

“We started with a small food truck back in 2018,” Alonso said. “We ran that for four years.”

Weekends were so busy that he began calling on his brothers for help.

“I used to text him, 'Hey, Alan, I need you,'” Alonso said. “He’s like, yeah, bro, I’m there.”

At that time, they never discussed what their formal arrangement was as business partners. A few years later, they launched their first restaurant, and brought their youngest brother, Cesar, also into the business.

"I never thought, to be honest, but it just happened," Alonso said, talking about their restaurant group's expansion. "We were always so ambitious to keep growing."

Together they own Encanto, Encanto Cocina, Ocho’s Mexican Cocina, DGO and DGO Mexican Grill. The restaurants stretch from Denver to Commerce City and the Denver Tech Center. Each location has its own unique concept.

Just as each restaurant is unique, each brother has their own distinct role. Alonso described himself as the one “always envisioning what’s next.” He said he sends those ideas to Cesar, who executes them with managers. Alan works “behind the curtain,” tracking financials and making sure bills are paid on time.

"I think we really have a strong bond, and we know what is there to do. How are we going to do it?" Cesar said.

The recipes also have their own family roots. Many of the dishes served at the restaurants are their mother's recipes. Alonso said their uncle would make food every Sunday when they were children.

“We just grew up with that culture,” he said.

They've added about one restaurant every year since opening up their first brick and mortar restaurant. That pace was something they worked hard for, but never imagined just a few years ago.

“I never envisioned having five payrolls,” Alan said. “I never envisioned having more than 50 employees. Even now, it’s still unreal.”

Alan said he remembers the text Alonso sent when the fifth location opened.

“Wow. We did it," he said it read.

Their goal now, Alan said, is “to enjoy what we’ve built so far and enforce what we have.”

The brothers credit their bond for their early success.

"Growing up with my brothers, I knew it was different from other siblings," Alan said. "I think that's why we've made this work as far as it is right now, just because we have that bond since we were young kids growing up."