The Colorado Avalanche have not won in overtime yet this season. They have been in games that have gone to overtime four times this season, including the shootout loss to the Rangers, and they have yet to win one of those games.
That may not seem important until you remember Colorado plays in the impossible Central Division. That’s four points they’ve left on the ice. Those four points would put them at 60, which would put them third in the Central instead of fifth in the Central and eighth in the Western — ergo, Wild Card Two.
Those points are going to be important come, say early March when the Avalanche have to go into another gear to hopefully make a playoff run.