Tough times in Colorado as Avalanche march toward historically bad season
It’s all-star weekend in Los Angeles and a reporter from China asks Colorado Avalanche centre Nathan MacKinnon to wish Chinese hockey fans a happy New Year. Not in English, mind you, but Mandarin.
“Oh, I can’t do that!” MacKinnon says with a laugh. “I would love to, but I don’t think I can.”
The Halifax native never loses his cool throughout the exchange, a smile perpetually on his 21-year-old face as he eventually declares a happy New Year to all — twice in English.
MacKinnon and his Avalanche teammates have had to put up a brave front all year as they march toward the worst season in the franchise’s 22 years in Colorado, and one of the worst in NHL history, period.