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Ben Hutton is like all the new Maple Leafs this week stuck watching his new team on TV in instead of beside them on the bench.
Hutton, Nick Foligno, Riley Nash and farmhands Stefan Noesen and Antti Suomela are sitting out their various stages of the seven-day Canadian government quarantine no doubt thankful it was recently reduced from 14 hoping to help out ASAP.
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For Hutton, who was formally introduced to the media on Friday via Zoom, it has been an especially hard wait. So many family and friends in the Brockville-Prescott-Kemptville area of the province are Toronto fans, anxious to see the big defenceman get his chance after the trade with Anaheim on Monday afternoon.
Colorado had five different goal scorers in win by Callie Parmele @CallieParmele / ColoradoAvalanche.com
The Colorado Avalanche s top line got the team started but the squad s depth used that as momentum as the Avs went on to pick up a 5-4 victory against the Minnesota Wild.
Down 1-0 at the first intermission, Nathan MacKinnon scored 18 seconds into the second period and three other Avs found the back of the net in the frame. In total, Colorado had five different skaters from three different lines hit twine before the final buzzer on Monday at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Colorado begins four-game road trip by Andy Vernier / ColoradoAvalanche.com
After going 5-0-1 in its six-game homestand, the Colorado Avalanche hits the road and visits the Minnesota Wild to close out the season series with a pair of matchups at Xcel Energy Center beginning on Monday.
The Avs (25-8-4) earned a 2-1 victory versus the St. Louis Blues at Ball Arena on Saturday, completing a two-game sweep over the club to extend their win streak to four games and point streak to 14 contests (12-0-2). Cale Makar scored with just over 40 seconds left in the third period for his second game-winning goal of the campaign, while Nathan MacKinnon also found the back of the net to extend his point streak to five games. Gabriel Landeskog and Devon Toews each added an assist as netminder Philipp Grubauer picked up his third consecutive win, denying 27-of-28 shots.
Avs Gaining Confidence After Sweeping Blues
Players say the tight games should help them in the stretch run and beyond by Ron Knabenbauer @RonKnab / ColoradoAvalanche.com
The Colorado Avalanche might be on a 14-game point streak, but the team s recent success hasn t been as easy as it might appear.
The squad has had to show its versatility to win different ways during the run, and Colorado played in two such outings in the back-to-back set against the St. Louis Blues.
On Friday, the Avs had a 3-2 lead at the second intermission and held on for the victory. Saturday saw St. Louis play a tough, tighter game with the score tied at 1-1 for most of the night, but Colorado stuck with its game plan and won 2-1 after Cale Makar s shot found twine in the final minute of regulation.