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.
When you acquire a big piece at the trade deadline with 0 games of NHL playoff experience, you never really know what you’re going to get when the most important time of year rolls around.
They’ll provide significant reinforcements for AHL Colorado, which begins its best-of-three first-round series against the Abbotsford Canucks soon.
It’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 Two against the Winnipeg Jets for the Colorado Avalanche.
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.
With the first two games of their first-round series in the books, the Colorado Avalanche and the Winnipeg Jets head to Denver with one win apiece, and the Avalanche wresting away home-ice advantage for the remainder of the series.
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 are moderate favorites (-166) at home against the Winnipeg Jets (+140) on Friday at 10:00 PM ET. Avalanche vs. Jets Favorite, Moneyline, Total Favorite: Avalanche (-166) Underdog: Jets (+140) Total: 6.5 Best Avalanche vs.
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 Avs team defense grounded the Jets and powered a 5-2 Win. All the pressure was on Alexandar Georgiev after a dreadful Game One to show he still belonged in an NHL net, and his teammates knew it.
Could the Colorado Avalanche have asked for a better bounce-back performance from Alexandar Georgiev? Well, I’m sure. A shutout wouldn’t have been so bad, but they’re not complaining with what they got.
As talented as the Colorado Avalanche are, going down 2-0 against the Winnipeg Jets in their Round 1 playoff series was to be avoided at all costs. The Avalanche answered the proverbial bell, fighting off adversity in the process, by winning the second game 5-2 to level the series at one game apiece.
The Avalanche scored four unanswered goals in the second and third periods.
The Colorado Avalanche placed forward Chris Wagner on waivers Tuesday afternoon, according to CapFriendly. The 32-year-old forward has split the 2023-24 season with the Avalanche and their AHL affiliate, the Colorado Eagles.
Winnipeg has brought the fight. A sold-out Canada Life Centre, a sold-out Whiteout Way Street Party, and a sold-out Party in the Plaza. Thousands of Manitobans were ready to support the Winnipeg Jets in game one against the Colorado Avalanche, and thousands more are ready to do the same for game two.
The Colorado Avalanche have recalled goaltender Ivan Prosvetov from the Colorado Eagles of the AHL. In a corresponding move, goaltender Arvid Holm has been reassigned to the Eagles.
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.
The Colorado Avalanche winger Jonathan Drouin was injured in a meaningless game to end the regular season and will now miss the whole of his team's first-round series against the Winnipeg Jets.
The Colorado Avalanche have signed the standout college defenseman to his entry-level contract.
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