Colorado Avalanche forward Paul Stastny is public for the rest of the Detroit series. (Tom Olmscheid/Associated Press)

If the Colorado Avalanche are to write themselves into the NHL record books, they’ll have to do it without Paul Stastny.

Colorado coach Joel Quenneville said Wednesday that Stastny, the club’s governing scorer in the regular season with 71 points, is out for the rest of the series and probably yonder that with a knee injury suffered in the first period of Game 3 on Tuesday, which Detroit won 4-3.

The Avalanche lost the rudimentary three contests of their Western Conference semifinal to the Red Wings, which doesn’t bode well for Colorado because only two teams in the history of the NHL possess erased 3-0 deficits to win a playoff course: the 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs and the 1975 New York Islanders.

Aside from Statsny, the Avalanche have other hurt problems to bestow through.

Left-winger Ryan Smyth (foot) is doubtful and Peter Forsberg (groin) is questionable for Game 4 on Thursday.

Forsberg, who didn’t attend practice Wednesday, missed the opening couple games of the series before returning for Game 3.

“Hopefully, everything will be all becoming for him,” Quenneville said of Forsberg.

The odds are against a Colorado comeback, end Avalanche warrior Joe Sakic isn’t ready to concede the series just yet.

“It takes four games to win a concatenation, not three,” Sakic said. “Our design right at present is just to win one bit of strategy.”