The Colorado Avalanche victory against the Nashville Predators felt so good. It was a 5-0 victory — and none of those goals were empty netters. (Not that there’s anything wrong with those.) With that win, the Avs have now strung together four in a row and slid back into a playoff spot.
Now, as you remember, the Avs and Preds faced each other in the playoffs last season. Matters got chippy between them. I don’t think the two teams hate each other like the Avs hate the Wild, but there’s some definite bad blood between them.
So much so that our tiny Samule Girard, usually so unemotional, laid a wicked hit on the Predators’ captain, Roman Josi.