Nationwide, 16 others have died in avalanches this season, according to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center.
Kroenke already owns the Colorado Rapids, the Denver Nuggets and the Colorado Avalanche sports teams in his native Colorado.
Colorado Avalanche Information Center forecaster Spencer Logan said there have been weak layers in Colorado's snowpack since early January.
Louis Rams, the NBA's Denver Nuggets, the NHL's Colorado Avalanche, the Colorado Rapids of MLS and English soccer club Arsenal.
The 62-year-old also owns the Denver Nuggets basketball team, the National Hockey League's Colorado Avalanche and Major League Soccer's Colorado Rapids.
In the latest example, the Blackhawks beat the Colorado Avalanche 3-2 on Wednesday night on Dan Carcillo's goal with 50 seconds left in regulation.
With 76 points this season through Sunday, the Kings were currently tied with the Calgary Flames and Colorado Avalanche for the eighth and final postseason berth in the Western Conference.
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So Golisano signed players who could flourish with that style of play, such as former Phoenix Coyotes captain Teppo Numminen, Chris Drury (Colorado Avalanche) and Kotalik (drafted from the Czech Republic).
No surprise, he adds, that Stanley Kroenke, who owns hockey's Colorado Avalanche and the Denver Nuggets of the NBA, has started his own regional sports channel, which will broadcast his two teams.
In 1999-2000, though, when they won their second Stanley Cup, the Devils were second in the NHL in goals scored, and they led the league in scoring the following season before losing in the Finals to the Colorado Avalanche.
Because the NHL allowed Doughty's goal to stand, the Colorado Avalanche, which has the same number of standings points as the Kings with one fewer game left to play, has just a 17% chance of reaching the postseason, according to that site's calculations.
WSJ: Kings' 3-2 Win Over the Blue Jackets on Feb. 1 Draws Scrutiny
The Colorado Alpine Rescue Team said this was Colorado's deadliest avalanche accident since 1962.
GEORGETOWN, Colo. (AP) Five snowboarders were killed Saturday afternoon after apparently triggering a backcountry avalanche on Colorado's Loveland Pass, authorities said.
On Thursday, a 38-year-old snowboarder died in an avalanche south of Colorado's Vail Pass.
The Colorado Department of Transportation said the avalanche had closed Highway 6 at Loveland Pass and could not estimate when the pass would reopen.
This March, meanwhile, already has seen one recorded fatality: a backcountry skier who was caught in an avalanche at Conejos Peak, Colorado.
It was the state's deadliest avalanche accident since 1962, the Colorado Alpine Rescue Team said.
An avalanche in the US state of Colorado has killed five back-country snowboarders with a sixth surviving, according to officials.
Its avalanche patrol detonates more ordnance than that of any other Colorado mountain.
The Colorado Department of Transportation closed U.S. 6, which crosses the Continental Divide near the scene of the avalanche, to facilitate the search.
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