WHERE/WHEN
April 3, 2016 Game 79
Pepsi Center Denver, CO
HIGHLIGHTS
Five points behind with four games remaining and facing the threat of elimination, the Colorado Avalanche had everything to play for coming out of the gate tonight as they hosted the St. Louis Blues. Instead, the Avalanche came out lethargic, a repeat performance of the almost helpless performance they put forth two days ago against the Washington Capitals.
An early delay of game penalty on Gabriel Landeskog gave the Blues the first power play of the night and despite Shawn Matthias and John Mitchell creating a golden scoring opportunity on the penalty kill, the Avalanche were unable to back track properly the other way and gave up a two-on-one chance that David Backes finished off from a perfect feed by Vladimir Tarasenko to make it 1-0 on a shot Semyon Varlamov never had a chance to stop.