The Colorado Avalanche lost their first game in regulation, 3-1. They’re now 7-1-1 on the season, having gotten off to the hottest start in franchise history. Five of those games were on a season-high, five-game road trip, during which time Colorado went 3-1-1.
As the captain Gabriel Landeskog said, they had a really good road trip. As he quipped, they had the chance to make it a really, really, really good road trip with a win tonight, but it wasn’t meant to be.
We’ll talk a little bit about how it all went down, but let’s start with the much bigger loss — Mikko Rantanen.