Avalanche concerned with rare lull as slumping Capitals visit

Every team experiences lulls throughout an 82-game season, but the Colorado Avalanche seemed immune to that in the first half of the schedule.

Finally, a lull has hit Colorado, which dropped four of its last six games and suffered its first loss in regulation on home ice. The Avalanche will try to break out of that mini-slump when they host the Washington Capitals on Monday afternoon in Denver.

Colorado's recent woes are minor when taken into context. The Avalanche's 74 points are by far the most in the NHL...