10 Takeaways: The Avalanche’s Balanced Attack Is Fueling Their 3-0 Series Edge
The Avalanche’s depth have carried the offense in this series. Quite frankly, this is by design. Gone are the days […] The post 10 Takeaways: The Avalanche’s Balanced Attack Is Fueling Their 3-0 Series Edge appeared first on Colorado Hockey Now.
Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images The Avalanche’s depth have carried the offense in this series. Quite frankly, this is by design. Gone are the days of Nathan MacKinnon, Cale Makar, and Mikko Rantanen putting up historic scoring paces and Colorado still losing.
Gone are the days of head coach Jared Bednar throwing his top line out for 23+ minutes per night in the playoffs. In fact, the Avs defeated the Los Angeles Kings 4-2 on Thursday to build a 3-0 series lead, and MacKinnon led the forwards with just 19:30 of total ice time. MacKinnon hasn’t scored yet in this series.
Martin Necas hasn’t scored yet in this series. Cale Makar has just one goal. Each of the Avs’ three biggest stars has one point through three games.
And that’s fine. It’s fine when you have Artturi Lehkonen scoring two goals and adding an assist. It’s fine because Gabe Landeskog has two goals.
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