He has one goal and three points in 11 games.
When Avalanche forward Andreas Martinsen is much older and the only hockey he is playing is in his head, the Norwegian hero will tell a story about his first NHL goal.
"Dangled a couple guys and went top cheese, probably," he said.
To decipher: He used elite puck-handling skills to skate around two defensemen and lifted the puck high over the goalie's shoulders into the net's ceiling. Allegedly.
What really happened was, Colorado defenseman Zach Redmond shot the puck off Martinsen's back-side and it caromed in at Washington on Nov.