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How long must a team suffer? How long has a team suffered? This is the fourth of several posts looking into the playoff droughts of 30 of the 32 active NHL franchises to figure out what went wrong and how it ended. This post covers Minnesota, Montreal, Nashville, the New York Islanders, and the New York Rangers. ....
Avs open series against San Jose by Andy Vernier / ColoradoAvalanche.com Following a four-game road trip in Southern California, the Colorado Avalanche comes home to host the San Jose Sharks for a two-game set at Ball Arena beginning on Tuesday. The Avs fell 3-1 to the Anaheim Ducks in the final game of the seven-day trip on Sunday, finishing 2-2-0 during the stretch. Mikko Rantanen notched the lone goal for Colorado extending his goal streak to five games while Nathan MacKinnon picked up his sixth assist on the year. Andre Burakovsky returned to the lineup after missing three-straight contests due to an upper-body injury, logging 13:16 of ice time in the matchup. ....
Colorado Avalanche head coach Jared Bednar has consistently said that he will judge his team on the process and how they play as opposed to focusing only on the results.On Sunday, the Avs ultimately fell 3-1 to the Anaheim Ducks at Honda Center, but Bednar liked the effort that he saw throughout the lineup from his group."Tonight, I loved our work ethic," the bench boss said. "I thought we competed in all areas of the game, and we were creating some real good offensive-zone time… One thing we talked about as the game went on was just doing a better job at getting in front of (Anaheim goaltender John) Gibson because it seemed like we were creating some really good chances, but he was seeing all of them he had a really good night, sometimes you run into that. ....