On Hockey Fights Cancer night in Winnipeg, hockey nearly fought a broken zamboni as the game got off to a delayed start because one of the ice cleaning vehicles had to get towed before the teams could take the ice.
That zamboni wasn’t the only broken thing on the ice this night, as the injury riddled Colorado Avalanche barely showed up to play the streaking Winnipeg Jets and got shutout in a 5-0 loss.
Here’s how the beatdown happened:
FIRST PERIOD
Both teams started the game somewhat tentatively until David Gustafsson found himself alone in front of Alexandar Georgiev, who pushed off hard to make a beautiful pad save.