Sometimes all you need is luck.
After another string of bad luck on the injury front for the Colorado Avalanche, the team is being forced to play without its two young defensive stars, Cale Makar and Bo Byram. Add to that the fact that Erik Johnson has only been in the lineup for one game this season and the Avalanche have been forced to dig deep into their organizational reserves to fill the spots on the blue line.
MacDonald is a 28-year old AHL veteran who, prior to this year, had a grand total of two NHL games under his belt.