It snows a lot in Finland.

The white stuff will stay on the ground for up to seven months, so Helsinki native Kevin Lankinen is familiar with snowfall warnings.

However, avalanche awareness in North America is something else.

In the NHL, it’s called the Colorado Avalanche warning. The league’s highest-scoring team had buried the opposition in rolling to a league-best 18-1-6 record, including 10-0-2 dominance on home ice heading into a Tuesday test against the Vancouver Canucks in Denver.

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On a night where the visitors needed to apply pressure in the neutral zone, and not play on their heels against the high-octane Avalanche, they also needed Lankinen to steal a game to conclude a four-game road trip on a positive note. And Lank

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