Colorado Avalanche: Nathan MacKinnon Must Score Soon

The Colorado Avalanche need their star center, Nathan MacKinnon, to get hot again if they want to make the playoffs.

The Colorado Avalanche earned a point and are now in the second wild card spot. Now, they blew a two-goal lead that they had in the third and then lost in overtime. But let’s not focus on that generally.

Let’s focus on something specifically — Nathan MacKinnon did not score. He has not scored since the March 18 game against the Detroit Red Wings, when he scored two. As fun as that was to see, I don’t want those to be his last two goals of the season.

In those seven games, he’s earned five assists. However, he brought the Avalanche to the brink of playoff action — he needs to…