After a whirlwind couple of days for the front office ahead of the trade deadline it was time to get back to regularly scheduled programming with the task at hand on the ice which was was the first in a pair of games in the Golden State as the Colorado Avalanche met up with the LA Kings.
The Game
The first power play in the game looked like it might become a fruitless endeavor but Mikko Rantanen crafted a brilliant play from behind the net to a wide open Val Nichushkin at the net front at 6:36 to take the lead.