In a must-win game, the Colorado Avalanche laid an egg. A really big one. Hours after learning that the team had lost Valeri Nichushkin to a six month suspension, the Avalanche, as their head coach described it, looked “frozen” in the first period, getting outshot 16-2 in front of their home crowd and generally looking awful.
t’s time for playoff plus/minus! As with every game, you take the good with the bad, so time to take a look at the pluses and the minuses in Game One against the Dallas Stars for the Colorado Avalanche.
The Colorado Avalanche finally know who their opponent will be in round two, although they’ve been ready if it was going to be the Stars for a few days now.
Aarif Deen breaks down the Avs’ five-game series victory over the Winnipeg Jets. He touches on the bounceback from Alexandar Georgiev, Valeri Nichushkin’s scoring, Artturi Lehkonen’s importance and roster depth.
The Winnipeg Jets were facing elimination for the first time in the series against the Colorado Avalanche. It was time that they had to step up and Colorado did not step back at all themselves.
Strike 2: Would you ask a sports car to pull around a trailer? That must have been what it was like for the Braintrust of the high flying, offensive-minded Colorado Avalanche to convince the team to start to play defensive-minded hockey, just in time for the playoffs.
Yakov Trenin has been a quote machine since coming to the Avalanche, and gave us another great one after Game Five. There were a lot of questions surrounding Alexandar Georgiev after Game One, where he gave up seven goals.
The Avalanche finish off the Jets with excellent team defense and goals from all over the lineup. The big question in this series was can Alexandar Georgiev keep up with presumed Vezina winner Connor Hellebuyck in the opposite net?
The Winnipeg Jets dominated Colorado during the regular season, outscoring the Avalanche 17-4 in sweeping the three games. That gave them home-ice advantage for their Western Conference first-round series, but that lasted just two games.
The Winnipeg Jets’ on-paper advantage in net over the Colorado Avalanche has not materialized on the ice so far in the first-round series. Through the first two games of the series, which is tied 1-1 heading to Colorado, Connor Hellebuyck has not outplayed Alexandar Georgiev.
In the Stanley Cup Playoffs, you need your goaltender to come up with key saves at the most crucial moments of the game. In the first game of the Central Division Semifinals between the Winnipeg Jets and Colorado Avalanche, Avs netminder Alexandar Georgiev did not rise to the occasion, surrendering seven goals and on 23 shots in a 7-6 loss.
The Colorado Avalanche were the laughingstock of the hockey world as they fell to the Winnipeg Jets by a score of 7-6 in their opening game of the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
The Colorado Avalanche needed a bounce-back game from Alexandar Georgiev in Game 2 of their Western Conference first-round series against the Winnipeg Jets on Tuesday night — and that’s exactly what they got.
The Colorado Avalanche tied their first-round series with the Winnipeg Jets in Game 2 Tuesday night. There were doubts about starting Alexandar Georgiev in Game 2 after his poor performance in Game 1.
If you’re starting on the road in the postseason, the ultimate goal is to walk away with a split. Sure, a sweep in Winnipeg would have been nice for the Avalanche, and they probably deserved it with how they played in Game One, but they’ll take a 1-1 series heading back to Denver.
If this was the most important game of Alexandar Georgiev’s Avalanche career (and I said it was), he answered the bell. In a big way. Things didn’t exactly start swimmingly.
The Avalanche scored four unanswered goals in the second and third periods.
Alexandar Georgiev made 28 saves and the visiting Colorado Avalanche beat the Winnipeg Jets 5-2 in Game 2 of their Western Conference first-round playoff series on Tuesday.
Colorado Avalanche netminder Alexandar Georgiev finished Game 1’s loss to the Winnipeg Jets with a .696 save percentage, allowing seven goals on just 23 shots in the opener of the team’s Western Conference first-round series.
The Colorado Avalanche have swapped third-string goaltenders, recalling one and assigning the other.
The Colorado Avalanche have a goaltending problem. Where have we heard that before? Alexandar Georgiev is the starting goalie for Colorado. Despite being pulled and not playing well late in the season, Georgiev was the starter for Game 1.
Despite scoring six times on the presumed Vezina Trophy-winner Connor Hellebuyck, the Colorado Avalanche could not keep the puck out of their own net in the team’s 7-6 loss in Game 1.
The Jets took 1-0 series lead against the Avalanche on Sunday night thanks to a wild 7-6 win.
The Avalanche only have one clear flaw on their roster, and it was on full display in a 7-6 loss to the Jets on Sunday night in Game 1 of their Western Conference first round series.
For two periods, it certainly looked like the Colorado Avalanche had a bounce-back game in store against the Golden Knights. Colorado’s second half of a back-to-back was going well in Las Vegas.
The Colorado Avalanche gave the league leader in minutes played a well-earned rest on Tuesday. Goaltender Alexandar Georgiev was scratched from the Avs’ lineup in Ottawa with Colorado giving prospect Justus Annunen a moment to shine in Canada’s capital, allowing for a complete day off for Georgiev.
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