The Colorado Avalanche are bad and the Anaheim Ducks’ John Gibson was unwilling to show any mercy, stopping 33 shots and leading his team to a 4-1 victory in Colorado’s first game back from their five-game bye week.
The Ducks scored first. Why? Because Francois Beauchemin pinched in and fired off a big slap shot—right into the pads of Anaheim’s Jakob Silfverberg, causing the puck to leak out toward the Avalanche zone. The 26-year-old Swedish wing then chased down the puck himself and ripped an uncontested breakaway shot past goalie Semyon Varlamov to put the Ducks up 1-0.