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Recap: Avalanche survive Predators attack, clinch playoff spot

Wild, wacky hockey is the best.

March Madness isn’t reserved just for college basketball but for the Colorado Avalanche as well. After going down 4-2, they responded with a five-goal rout to defeat the Nashville Predators 7-4.

With a little bit of everything, this game was going at 100 MPH for every second of the 60 minutes. There’s simply too much to introduce in this little blurb here, so here’s how it all unfolded.

First Period

Yakov Trenin nearly got the action started early with a goal on a rush in the opening seconds against his former team, but he was denied.