This was a turbocharged crowd that locked in for the final regular season match-up between two great division rivals from the moment the puck dropped. The fans welcomed back trade-deadline reacquisition Nazem Kadri, of the '22 Cup team, like he was Peter Forsberg, and they went nuts just for a backchecking dispossession he pulled off early in the game.
The Avalanche are the top-scoring squad in the league with an average of 3.8 goals per game, resulting in 220 this season. The Avalanche are ranked first in NHL play with the fewest goals against, having allowed 141 total goals (only 2.4 per game). They have a league-pacing goal differential of +79 this season.