If the first 50 games of the Avalanche’s season have proved anything, it’s that one of hockey’s youngest, most talented teams still has plenty of room to grow.
That fact was underscored again in the Avs’ 5-2 loss to the Minnesota Wild on Wednesday night at the Pepsi Center, where Colorado hustled and battled for every puck against Minnesota but simply made too many mistakes to win. That has often been the case lately as the Avalanche has fallen from atop the Western Conference early in the season to the second wild-card spot heading into the all-star break.