With 8 games to go, the Nuggets will need a win tonight at the Mavericks and a strong finish to reacquire the 2nd seed in the Western Conference playoff field
The Nuggets are slumping, every other contender is healthy and pressing forward, and there’s no help on the horizon. Gut-check time in Denver.
I would be remiss if I didn’t comment on the Avs’ failure to keep the pressure on early in the second period. Vancouver gave the Avalanche every opportunity to put the game away and the Avs, rather than failing to capitalize, passed on more than one chance to rush Luongo and put the Canucks in a deeper hole.
For all of the issues that the young Colorado Avalanche have exhibited this year, there has been one constant: goalie Craig Anderson.
They used to be the Colorado Rockies, before that they were the Kansas City Scouts, now they’re the New Jersey Devils, & they’re coming to Denver this weekend as the top team in the Eastern.
