WHERE/WHEN
December 21, 2015 Game 35
Pepsi Center Denver, CO
HIGHLIGHTS
The Colorado Avalanche walked into tonight’s home contest against the Toronto Maple Leafs riding a five-game winning streak and sporting a wonderful 8-2-0 record in the month of December. That momentum would carry over to the beginning of the game as the Avalanche thoroughly dominated the early stages of the first period, highlighted by a beautiful cycle play that led to Jack Skille scoring his fourth goal of the season to make it 1-0 just 2:27 into the game.
The lethargic Colorado power play would sap the momentum from the Avalanche as they would get nothing going on their one opportunity halfway through the period and it would prove to be the turning point of the first as Colorado would take a penalty of their own on a dubious tripping call against Francois Beauchemin.