After allowing seven goals in back-to-back games, GoAvsGo tightened the screws on defense Sunday night but couldn’t complete the triumphant rebound. The story from BennettDurando
The Avalanche needed to regroup from a slump for the first time in weeks, after stamping an unsavory place for themselves in franchise history. They only had 24 hours to do so.
After allowing seven goals in back-to-back games, the Avs tightened the screws on defense Sunday night but couldn’t complete the triumphant rebound, losing 3-2 in overtime to the Kraken. Brandon Tanev scored with 2:30 remaining in regulation to tie the game and undo Colorado’s extraordinary effort to hold the lead for most of a tense third period.
It started with the Avalanche leading 2-1 but forced to defend a full, two-minute 5-on-3. Alexandar Georgiev made seven of his 32 saves during the penalty kill, and the defensive dynamo of Cale Makar and Devon Toews stayed on the ice for the entire two minutes. The Avs killed another penalty four minutes later, but Seattle tied it at 5-on-5 and ended it early in 3-on-3 overtime. Yanni Gourde potted the winner.
“You kill the 5-on-3, it’s hard. It tilts the ice a little bit,” forward Andrew Cogliano said. “It puts guys in playing more minutes than they should. It keeps our best players on the bench. And obviously that was a little momentum for them.”“I thought we’re the team that should get life out of that,” he said. “… Georgi was our best penalty killer. But we did a decent job. I thought we gave up one or two high-danger there. Did a nice job getting sticks on some pucks.
Colorado’s previous two games were characterized by defensive-zone turnovers and lackadaisical, costly errors. It was only the second time the Avalanche allowed 14 goals in a two-game stretch since moving to Denver. The most recent was Feb. 12-14, 2011. The last time the franchise had allowed more than 14 over a two-game stretch was Nov. 10-12, 1991, vs. Washington and Hartford .Related Articles
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