A friend the other day suggested turning the Avalanche’s power play into something of a morbid drinking game.

There was only one rule: Every time the Avs cycle the puck with the extra man , you take a shot. I countered that he’d be sloshed by the first intermission and unconscious by the second.

“I think we should have a shooting mentality,” Victor Olofsson, the Avalanche’s amiable new winger, explained to me before Colorado hosted Anaheim late Tuesday night at Ball Arena. “But there are obviously times where you can find someone in a better spot to shoot the puck, and you want to look for that.

“Just shooting it and maybe getting a couple more ugly goals, just rebounds and tips, is going to help us too. So, I definitely agree that we could shoot the puck more.”

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