AVALANCHE Dominic Toninato scored his first career goal, while Gabriel Landeskog, J.T. Compher and Sven Andrighetto also scored to give the Colorado Avalanche an impressive 4-1 win over the Central Division-leading Winnipeg Jets on Thursday night at Bell MTS Place.
Semyon Varlamov made 24 saves.
The win ended a season-worst eight-game losing streak for the Avalanche, who were 0-5-3 during the streak. In the last 22 games, the Avalanche are 4-13-5.
"We needed that. We needed that bad," Avalanche Head Coach Jared Bednar said. "And it's not just the win, it's the way our team played. Fantastic team effort, real strong commitment to check. All the details of our game and the whole lineup, no passengers. I liked a lot of things we did. Our penalty kill was really good, our top line was going right away."
As of Friday afternoon, Colorado was two points out of a Wild Card spot.
HEAD-TO-HEAD The Blues have won both meetings with the Avalanche this season, winning both in overtime.
In their last 16 matchups against the Avalanche, the Blues are 11-2-3.
St. Louis has won 11 straight games at Pepsi Center when scoring at least three goals in the game.
Since the start of the 2014-15 season, only Nashville (16) has more wins against the Avalanche than the Blues (15).
