Jared Bednar spent most of his hockey career trading punches with some of the meanest, toughest players in whatever league he was playing in. Avs coach Jared Bednar poses with his first pronghorn antelope, shot in Colorado in 2022. (Photo courtesy of Jared Bednar) But how many of those brawlers can also say they’ve plunged a knife into a wild hog’s heart? Bednar, when he is not a Stanley Cup-winning coach of the Colorado Avalanche, is a man of the woods.