As the Colorado Avalanche trudge along in their painful (both in the literal and figurative sense) five-game road trip they met a team in the Philadelphia Flyers who were suffering through their own issues including an eight-game losing streak and now a change in their head coach. This match set up as a classic trap game for the Avalanche. Fortunes were guaranteed to turn for one team on this Monday evening and it was the Avalanche grabbing the 7-5 victory.
The Game
It was a tepid start for both teams going through the motions in a lethargic pace but someone had to score eventually and the home team got on the board first from Claude Giroux at 6:02 off of some lazy board play by the Avalanche.