Colorado Avalanche Players Stepping Up Every Game

The Colorado Avalanche just passed the Minnesota Wild in the wild card standings (suck it Wild!), and although they’re still not playing as consistently as we’d like, someone is stepping up every game.

When Erik Johnson got hurt way back on January 4, I was in panic. An already patchworked defense losing their number one D — I thought it would spell certain disaster for the Colorado Avalanche, just as they were pulling back into the play off race. However, in the 9 games that EJ was absent the Avs went 6-3!

Granted they weren’t all pretty, and they got spanked by Tampa and Chicago in back to back games in the stretch. However, a .750% record without EJ! Thats awesome, and a little bit amazing.

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