The echoes are beginning to stir at the Pepsi Center.
Fresh off a 5-2 victory over the Winnipeg Jets, the Colorado Avalanche came storming out of the gate against a Montreal Canadiens squad that embarrassed them to the tune of a 10-1 beatdown on December 10. The onslaught was led by 20-year old rookie Mikko Rantanen, whose solid-yet-unspectacular year has been lost in the shuffle in what could go down as one of the NHL’s greatest rookie classes ever.
The soft-spoken Finn admitted the beatdown from December, which was the featured game on “Hockey Night in Canada”, was on the team’s mind before the puck dropped.