Avs Look to Lockdown in Game 2

Can Colorado play a low-scoring contest tonight?

So this is going to be a 1-0 game, right?

After the 9-6 slugfest in Game 1, this will be a lockdown defensive battle… right?

That’s my guess, anyway. Maybe it won’t be 1-0, but I have a feeling we won’t see anything close to the 15-goal output from the series opener.

This year’s Avalanche team has had plenty of callbacks to the 2022 squad… and rightfully so. In this instance, though, I look back to Game 2 of the Western Conference Final against Edmonton, when Colorado beat the Oilers, 4-0, on the strength of a 24-save shutout from Pavel Francouz.

That blanking of a talented Edmonton group came on the heels of an 8-6 barnburner in Game 1. At one point in that game, Colorado held a 7-3 lead, only to see the Oilers rip off three-straight tallies to make it a one-goal game and get the Ball Arena crowd sweating a bit. Gabriel Landeskog hit the empty net in the final minute to seal the two-goal win and the early series lead.