The resilience the Detroit Red Wings have shown this season will be tested this week. If they don’t pass, they risk heading into the Olympic break mired in their longest winless streak of the season and having it fester for three weeks.

Games in Colorado tonight (9 p.m., FanDuel Sports Network) and Utah Wednesday (9 p.m., FSN) pose a stiff challenge, particularly for a team on a three-game skid (0-2-1) and coming off an ugly 5-0 loss at home to the league-leading Avalanche.

“The beauty of this is we get to play those guys again and they’re a really good team,” Dylan Larkin said. “They’re the No. 1 team in the league, but they’re not the best team ever. It’s not like we’re playing against guys that can’t be beat. So, we have to go into their building with something to prove and start to a big two-game swing for us.”

After these games, Larkin (United States), Moritz Seider (Germany) and Lucas Raymond (Sweden) will head to Milano Cortino (Italy) for the Olympics. The rest of the team will be off until returning to the practice ice on Feb. 17 before their next game, Feb. 26 in Ottawa.

“We’ve played a lot of hockey, and you get bumps and bruises and illness, so, (the break) is coming at a good time, and I think it’s going to be huge for our team,” Larkin said. “Then it’s a sprint to the finish and we got to start having a little bit of that desperation, especially around the net and wanting to get there and score goals and probably look in the mirror and I could lead the charge on that. What we’ve shown this whole first stretch is resiliency, where we’ve bounced back. We’ve been kind of chugging along and get a little bump in the road and we just pick ourselves back up and keep going and that’s what we need to. Probably no better test than to go into that building in Colorado and play against that offense.”

The Avalanche is 14-0-1 in its past 15 against the Red Wings, having outscored them 66-27. Detroit has dropped eight in row in Colorado since its most recent win there on Feb. 27, 2016.

“We have to get it back on track,” coach Todd McLellan said. “This is what it feels like to be in a battle and in a race and that’s good for us to be in it. But the fact that we’re in it, we have to respect the opportunity that we have and we haven’t done a good job of that lately.”

The Red Wings (32-18-6) scored only four goals and went 0 for 13 during their recent three-game homestand. McLellan summed up their main issue.

“One guy’s working and doing some honest work – he’s protecting pucks — and four other guys are standing,” McLellan said. “I was barking on the bench, ‘move, move. If you don’t have the puck, move!’ But right now, offensively, we’re not supporting each other well. We’re not creating open ice for other people. We’re not getting to secondary chances. You know, we’ll get the grade A ones and then that’s it.”