As they embarked on their longest road trip of the year, heading on a five game sojourn through Canada, the Colorado Avalanche were in search of some momentum and to build off of their last victory against the New York Rangers.
Beating the Winnipeg Jets was a tall task at hand, though, and ultimately impossible to accomplish with the type of mistakes the Avalanche made in this 7-4 loss.
An early power play went the way of the visitors, but they couldn’t capitalize. Instead it would be the home club who got on the board first, with Mathieu Perreault scoring just three minutes into the game off of a complete defensive breakdown by Ian Cole.