The Avalanche (13-9-1) have lost two straight - the 5-1 setback to the Bruins on Saturday night and a 5-3 loss to Philadelphia on Monday - as they battle with a laundry list of injuries. Already down 10 of its regulars, Colorado will now be without leading scorer and Hart Trophy runner-up Nathan MacKinnon for four weeks due to an upper-body injury.
"One thing in this league, you understand injuries are part of it. I don't think anyone takes a team lightly when they're injured," said Foligno. "Sometimes they're like a wounded animal, they're a little more dangerous because you don't know what to expect. I don't think we're a team that ever takes any team lightly. We always want to play to our strengths and our abilities.
"But we're anticipating a hard game. And like anything, when you're going through it, no teams feels mercy on you. We've got to make sure we have that mindset as well and making sure that we're starting this road trip off right against a really good team and knowing we have to be at our best to win."
Bo Byram, Jean-Luc Fudy, Darren Helm, Gabriel Landeskog, Arturri Lehkonen, Kurtis MacDermid, Josh Manson, Valeri Nichuskin, and Evan Rodrigues are the other Avalanche regulars also out of the lineup.