WHERE/WHEN
March 12, 2016 Game 70
MTS Centre Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
HIGHLIGHTS
Coming into tonight’s road game, the Colorado Avalanche sat two points ahead of the Minnesota Wild in the race for the final playoff spot. Against a team that has given them fits in recent years but is languishing near the bottom of the league standings in the Winnipeg Jets, Colorado had an excellent opportunity to reduce the Wild’s magic number to elimination by two more points.
A scoreless first period would increase the pressure on the Avalanche as both teams exchanged scoring chances but were denied by goaltenders Semyon Varlamov and Ondrej Pavelec.