The Colorado Avalanche had gone on a seven-game win streak in the middle of March before the Arizona Coyotes spoiled their fun with a shootout loss on March 23rd.
Colorado didn’t forget that — so when they hosted Arizona for their fifth and final game of the month against the desert dogs, they made sure that they capitalized on Arizona’s precarious goaltending situation to rob the visiting Coyotes of some growing momentum in the form of a resounding, 9-3 loss to Nathan MacKinnon, Philipp Grubauer, and the rest of the high-flying Avs.
Donskoi earned his first hat trick of the season and Grubauer made 28 stops to give the Avalanche their 23rd win of the year and a push back into first in the division.