Avalanche Costly Injuries

Matt Duchene and Nathan MacKinnon the two leading scorers on the Avalanche are both injured at the worst time. We don't know how long the injuries are, but we do know that they will both be out for sure on Saturday when the play the most important game of the year for them against the Minnesota Wild. The Wild are currently 1 point ahead of the Avalanche with 81 and the Avalanche have 80 , but they do have one game in hand. The Avalanche have to really play like it's the playoffs right now especially since we don't know how long the two studs will be out for. On the bright side they went out and acquired  Mikkel Boedker at the trade deadline who has 11 points with the Avalanche and they do have depth like Shawn Matthias, captain Gabriel Landeskog, Jarome Iginla, and a good goalie Semyon Varlamov to potentially hold off for now. The Avalanche decide their fate, they either come up big and win some games or fall down without their leading scorers. How long will Duchene and MacKinnon be out? Will their depth step up? Will they make the playoffs? stay tuned....