Semyon Varlamov talks about what it felt like to shut out the Avalanche after leaving team

UNIONDALE, N.Y. – Curse of the ex-Avs – it’s a real thing. Or so it has always seemed.

Doesn’t matter who it is – a scrub player, a star player, a goalie, a winger, whatever. One of the other, less-publicized Laws of the Universe is: “Thou who hast once served time with the Colorado Avalanche will thus dominate in their first game against them, it is thy written.”