from Terry Frei of the Denver Post,
From Nov. 23 on, the Avalanche and Denver Nuggets have combined to lose eight consecutive games at the Pepsi Center, with the asterisk and small print that one defeat — the Avalanche’s to Vancouver on Nov. 26 — came in a shootout, meaning it salvaged a point in the NHL standings.
The Avalanche, in fact, pulled off the difficult feat of going winless (0-4-1) in a five-game homestand, finishing it off with a 3-0 loss to the Dallas Stars on Saturday — on “Star Wars Night.”
There was other bad news for the Avalanche, when defenseman Erik Johnson didn’t come back out to the bench for the third period, and after the game Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said Johnson had suffered a broken fibula and would be out six to eight weeks.
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