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Game 2 is at Ball Arena on Tuesday (10 p.m. ET; FDSNSC, ESPN, ALT, SN360, TVAS).
Artturi Lehkonen and Logan O’Connor scored, and Nathan MacKinnon had an help for the Avalanche, who gained the Presidents’ Trophy and are prime seed in the West.
“I’m really happy with the way we played,” Colorado coach Jared Bednar stated. “I feel that is the type of sport you may anticipate taking part in the Kings. It’s a tight-checking staff. What’d they play, 50-something one-goal video games and low-scoring video games? I’m comfy with that. I feel our staff’s comfy with that.
“It’s going to be hard to create offense. We had three goals tonight. One was disallowed, and I liked what we did on the defensive side of things to sort of minimize the quality of scoring chances, the quantity of scoring chances. Managed the puck well. Our guys played the right way and got the job done tonight, and now we got to go do it again.”
