Avs get egg on their face in most embarrassing loss of season

Alexander Georgiev wore disheveled hair and a distant stare into nowhere. His helmetless head told a sobering story even before coach Jared Bednar opened his mouth Saturday afternoon.

The Avs are in trouble. Their goalie has blown more saves than the cast of “Baywatch,” and was benched during one of the worst first periods in recent memory. Or any memory.

The final score: Winnipeg 7, Avs 0. The Jets got tacos and the Avs settled for a Denver omelet on their face.

“We didn’t show up,” defenseman Devon Toews said in an eerily- silent locker room. “It was just really bad.”

The Avs framed their matchup with the Jets as a must- win with home ice in the playoffs dangling in the balance. What unfurled can only be described as an unmitigated disaster, a performance so mind- numbingly bad that it raises questions about the Avs’ postseason veracity.

Colorado is set to face the Jets — a lunch pail, hard hat team — in the postseason. The same Jets team who swept the Avs in three games this season, outsourcing them 17- 4.

It wasn’t too long ago — like Tuesday — that the Avs looked like they had regrouped and were dancing to the same beat. There was no Mack Trick during this matinee, only a sellout crowd, in between full- throated boos, wondering if it could wave a wand and make the goalie and defensive issues disappear.

“It seemed like with our structure that we didn’t know what we were doing at times,” forward Andrew Cogliano said. “It was mental errors.”

More like a comedy of missteps. Except exactly