Recap: Avalanche win streak snapped by the Blues

Coming in with four straight victories, the shorthanded Colorado Avalanche came to play against the rival St. Louis Blues. Sporting a new defenseman in Andreas Englund due to yet another injury this season to Kurtis MacDermid, the Avs got off to a strong start but got shut down by strong play from St. Louis goaltender Jordan Binnington as the game wore on.

FIRST PERIOD

The Compher line with J.T., Logan O’Connor, and Andrew Cogliano started with Josh Manson and Jacob MacDonald and immediately got the puck deep to create some chaos around Binnington.

After a bit of back and forth, Dryden Hunt couldn’t quite finish a Makar rebound into an empty net, off the far post. Englund ended up in the…