Recap: Gusty performance works in Avalanche’s favor

Finally.

It’s nice to win, isn’t it? The Colorado Avalanche should be feeling great at this moment, scoring a 3-2 overtime victory over the Edmonton Oilers. The win snaps a five-game losing streak the Avs had been on and finally takes them off of 41 points and up to 43.

Oh, and it’s also the second straight overtime win Colorado has had over Edmonton if you catch my drift.

First Period

After a couple of penalties for each side were killed off, it seemed as if this would end up being a low event period. Neither team was shooting much, nor creating any dangerous chances to test either Alexandar Georgiev or Stuart Skinner.

However, the tempo would change quickly as Nathan MacKinnon had a couple of…