Coming off of a high intensity, high scoring win over the Ottawa Senators, the Colorado Avalanche failed to beat their rival Minnesota Wild on Saturday night, eventually losing 3-2. Despite the scoresheet, Semyon Varlamov was Colorado’s best player tonight, allowing just one even-strength goal on 18 shots, 8 for 9 on the power play. A “lucky” (it takes a lot of skill to rifle the puck 200ft into a 4x6 rectangle) empty net goal cost the Varlamov and the Avs a chance at victory. Well, I’d say the black hole that is the Avalanche offense outside of the MacKinnon line had a bit more to do with it, but we’ll stick to the first one.
Avalanche unable to tame Wild, lose 3-2 on second leg of back-to-back
