In Denver, the Colorado Avalanche are making their home ice a place of pain for the visitors.
On Sunday night, the Avs won 4-1 over the Buffalo Sabres and extended their win streak to 10 overall, and home4 streak to 18.
“Of course, it’s fun winning, for sure,” the Avalanche’s Nazem Kadri said. “It’s pretty exceptional when you look at the history of the Avs, they’ve had some pretty good teams, so we’re humbled by that. That being said … I feel like everyone feels that we can still be a little bit better. We’re finding our game. Obviously, momentum is a huge key and we hope to continue that.”
Kadri had a goal in the win.
“I’ve learned that we’re a resilient group, pretty consistent,” Avalanche head coach Jared Bednar said. “There were some games where we weren’t perfect, but we’ve found different ways to win with different guys chipping in, which good teams do. It’s been an amazing month for our guys.”
The Avs improved to 32-8-3.
Darcy Kuemper made 30 saves in the Colorado win.
Dylan Cozens was the lone Sabres scorer.
Buffalo dropped to 14-23-7.
Gabriel Landeskog and Mikko Rantanen also scored for the Avs.
“It’s been a lot of fun, winning a ton of hockey games,” Kuemper said. “As a group, I think we’ve done a great job of staying even keel and humble about it. We’re still trying to improve our game and it’s been a lot of fun being a part of it.”
Valeri Nichushkin added an empty net goa, for the 4-1 fnal scored into an empty net with 1:03 left for the 4-1 final.
Dustin Tokarski made 32 saves in the Sabres loss.
“It was awesome,” Tokarski said. “I love playing with those guys. It worked out nicely to get back. It was a lot of fun out there tonight. I’ve heard the words day to day enough to know that’s what it was, but it was just a lot of making sure that nothing could get worse, that going through a couple-hour game wasn’t going to make anything worse.”
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