In their first game back from the All-Star break, the Colorado Avalanche dropped a 4-3 decision to the Vancouver Canucks in overtime. It was a bad loss to a team they should have beat, though that’s not what Avalanche fans should be worried about. Coming out of that game, there is a very real possibility that the team will be without Nathan MacKinnon for a while, after the superstar left the game with an upper-body injury.
Just after the midway point of the second period, MacKinnon made contact with Vancouver’s Alexander Edler, in what looked like an innocent collision.