Defending Champs come to town

The Colorado Avalanche Hockey team faces a tough test tonight. Not only do the defending champs come to town, but Sarich, and the teams top scorer in Matt Duchcne will be out. This will give young rookie center Nathan Mackinnon a shot at centering the top line tonight. That should be interesting, so far in my opinion he has only played better with more ice time.  He seems to be finding his confidence at the NHL level. The Avs look to try and end their first loosing streak of the season tonight, but it won't be easy. The Chicago Blackhawks got blown out in their last game and will come out looking to get up on the struggling Avalanche early. If the avs are going to have a shot in this game they are going to need to come out hungry, fast, and get the first goal of the game to build off of.