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Special teams and goalkeeping often saved the Avalanche throughout the month of November. The penalty kill suddenly thrived after its slow start to the season, and Colorado’s league-leading power play was vicious enough to mask occasional 5-on-5 deficiencies.

Alexandar Georgiev broke out the same celebration.

NEWARK, N.J. — In the Avalanche’s least inspiring stretches early this season, the immediate temptation might be to label any lethargy as championship hangover. Colorado did, after all, have the shortest offseason recharge in the NHL.

NEW YORK — Alexandar Georgiev spent his first five seasons in the NHL with the Rangers, the last two serving as backup to Igor Shesterkin, before getting traded to the Stanley Cup champion Colorado Avalanche at last summer’s NHL Draft. On Tuesday night, Georgiev returned to Madison Square Garden with…

If Nathan MacKinnon represents the heart, then Gabriel Landeskog is the Avalanche’s soul and spine, the last link in a mighty chain that finally dragged Lord Stanley’s Cup to its rightful plinth a mile high.

DENVER — So maybe Colorado has some experimenting to do with its second, third and fourth lines. Maybe the penalty kill needs intense self-evaluation. Maybe the Avalanche lacks depth.

On banner night, Artturi Lehkonen decided to have one himself.

What a classy move from the Avalanche.

Pavel Francouz is a bargain, and he knows it.