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Avs Close Out Regular Season by Beating "Oilers"

Avs Close Out Regular Season by Beating "Oilers"

Colorado finishes on high note, now turns the page to Winnipeg.

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It’s over. Well… kind of.

The regular season is over and now the real season begins. Hopefully, this group can duplicate the same type turn-it-on-after-being-turned-off mentality that the 2022 group had in the final stretch of that campaign that saw them lose six-of-seven to close out the regular season.

After a pair of terrible losses in two different ways last weekend, the Avalanche closed out the 2023-24 regular season with a 5-1 home win Thursday night against the Bakersfield Condors… I mean the Edmonton Oilers. 

The game was 60 minutes, but it was over in the first 10. 

A pair of goals from Valeri Nichushkin, a snipe from Mikko Rantanen and a seeing-eye point shot from Josh Manson was all that was needed for the Avalanche to finish off the regular season with a victory. Playing in his final NHL regular-season game, Zach Parise also lit the lamp midway through the second period to close out the scoring and restore the four-goal lead.

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