Visiting NHL players likely now look at the sign greeting them on the Pepsi Center loading dock, reminding them of the mile-high altitude, and go:
So?
The Avalanche hasn’t won a home game in six weeks.
The winless streak at the Pepsi Center reached nine Tuesday night, when the Calgary Flames — who traveled to Denver Tuesday morning after the end of the NHL’s three-day holiday shutdown — got two goals apiece from Mikael Backlund and Johnny Gaudreau and knocked off Colorado 6-3.
The Flames, who at least fired away on Avalanche goalie Calvin Pickard, took charge largely on the strength of goals that came on the sort of bounces that left the Calgary scorers looking sheepish, almost as if they didn’t know if it would look tacky to celebrate.