If there were one or two obvious issues for the Colorado Avalanche to fix, this current slump would be pretty easy to explain away.
Instead, there are a lot of smaller fires to put out instead of one large one. And all of them were a problem Saturday night when the Avs were embarrassed in an 8-2 loss to the St. Louis Blues at Ball Arena. It was the club’s fifth loss in seven games, and the fourth time it’s lost by four-plus goals.
Case in point: Colorado’s power play has to be better, but even when it was Saturday, there were mistakes and bad luck.