In Denver,the visiting Boston Bruins stopped a one-game losing skid on Thursday night with a 4-0 win over the Avalanche.
Linus Ullmark made 23 saves in the shutout.
“Just the response we had after losing the game and ending our [winning] streak at home, we come back and get on the road, and it was a great start to our road trip,” Bruins coach Jim Montgomery said. “We made some big blocks. I thought Brandon Carlo was outstanding on the penalty kill and made some really smart offensive zone plays too.”
Boston is 11-1-1 in their last 13 games.
Taylor Hall hit for a double with a goal in the second and third periods.
Following a scoreless first period, David Pastrnak put the Bruins up, 1-0.
Hall extended the lead to 2-0 with his first of the night.
“It’s not easy coming to the altitude and playing, so I don’t think any one of us expected to have a rocking start,” Hall said. “But we found our game as the period went on, and we found our legs, so it was really good.”
Colorado has lost four of their last five matches.
“It’s not always going to be easy. It’s a hard game,” Colorado coach Jared Bednar said. “We’re going to take it. We’re going to teach it. I’m going to expect, if this group stays the exact same moving forward for the next one game, two games, five games, I expect us to be better next game, because we’re going to show some stuff.
“They’re going to learn as a group what it takes to be able to play in this league, what it takes to be able to have success in this league, and I’ll expect a lot from our veteran guys, that they step up their game and continue to play hard and do all the things.”
Colorado dropped to 13-10-1.
Trent Frederic scored at 6:24 of the third period to put the game’s outcome no longer in doubt, at 3-0.
“They cough it up, and [Frederic] makes a great play to me to kind of spring [me], and ‘Hallsy’s’ in a good spot and I just tried to make a play around [Girard],” Boston’s Charlie Coyle said. “It’s kind of like when you make that move, everyone knows that pass is coming, right? It’s a hard finish, but it’s good to be hard on that stick and then get it up like that. That’s impressive.”
Hall scored near the midway point of the third to seal it with the 4-0 final.
“I wouldn’t say it was cheating, but I saw [Jake DeBrusk] had some time and the puck, it was going to go for icing and it just kind of stopped up nicely,” Hall said. “That’s a move that feels comfortable to me, to bring him to the left side of my body and shoot back the other way.”
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Alexandar Georgiev made 33 saves in the Avs loss.
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