AVS SLUMP: Nathan MacKinnon: “We’re shooting ourselves in the foot”; and why Manson and Girard need to be better, or else

No, I’m not worried. A tad bit alarmed? Yes.

The Avs have now lost three in a row, after Friday night’s 6-3 loss to the Edmonton Oilers at Rogers Place. This has become something of a haunted building for the Avs now. They spent nearly 50 days there in the Covid bubble over 2020 (my full account of what that was like, as the only Denver media person there, is here). They lost a Game 7 to Dallas in the second round, and things certainly didn’t go well tonight.