The 10-game “runway” to the playoffs, as Avalanche coach Jared Bednar coined it, begins Wednesday night against a hungry team at Ball Arena.
Colorado, now tied with the Florida Panthers with a league-high 110 points, hosts the Los Angeles Kings, who are in a five-team scramble for the final three spots in the Western Conference.
The Kings (88 points) have just seven remaining games — fewer than Edmonton (90 points), Nashville (89), Dallas (88) and Vegas (85). The Avs lead the conference with 110 points — 11 ahead of second-place Calgary — and are heavily favored to collect the No.