This will be only the second time in the past 15 seasons that the Avalanche won’t finish its regular season with a home game.
Yes, the franchise-worst — and worst by far — season still had two road games to go after the Avs fell 4-3 to the Minnesota Wild on Thursday night at the Pepsi Center.
Don Rickles (R.I.P.) would have called them a bunch of hockey pucks — and perhaps added, “Hey, nice season, fellas.”
The Avs came in with a modest two-game home winning streak and again showed some life in the final Pepsi Center appearance, coming back from a 2-0 first-period deficit.