How We Arrived Here\u00a0
\nColorado Avalanche\u00a0<\/p>\n
After a four-game sweep of the Los Angeles Kings in Round One, the Avalanche defeated the Minnesota Wild in five games in a Round Two series that was capped off by a three-goal comeback and overtime victory.\u00a0Colorado had 16 different\u00a0goalscorers\u00a0in\u00a0Round Two, with five players scoring at least twice in the series. Throughout the playoffs,\u00a0Nathan MacKinnon (7g\/6a)\u00a0and Martin Necas (1g\/10a)\u00a0led\u00a0the way for the Avalanche\u00a0offensively.\u00a0Additionally,\u00a0Gabriel Landeskog (3g\/5a) and Devon Toews (2g\/6a)\u00a0both\u00a0have posted eight points while Artturi Lehkonen (3g\/3a), Nicolas Roy (3g\/3a)\u00a0and Nazem Kadri (2g\/4a)\u00a0each have\u00a0posted six points.\u00a0On special teams, Colorado\u2019s 25% power play ranks second in the NHL among remaining teams, while its 79.3% penalty kill ranks third.\u00a0Both Avs goalies have made an impact in the playoffs, with\u00a0Mackenzie Blackwood recording his first start and win of the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs against the Wild, while Scott Wedgewood picked up three wins in Round Two.\u00a0Overall, Wedgewood is 7-1 in the playoffs with a .914 save percentage and\u00a0a 2.21 goals-against average.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Round One<\/p>\n
Game One:\u00a0LAK 1, COL 2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Game Two: LAK 1, COL 2 (OT)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Game Three: COL 4, LAK 2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Game Four: COL 5, LAK 1\u00a0<\/p>\n
Round Two<\/p>\n
Game One: MIN 6,\u00a0COL 9\u00a0<\/p>\n
Game Two: MIN 2,\u00a0COL 5\u00a0<\/p>\n
Game Three:\u00a0COL 1, MIN 5\u00a0<\/p>\n
Game Four:\u00a0COL 5, MIN 2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Game Five: MIN 3,\u00a0COL 4 (OT)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Vegas Golden Knights\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Golden Knights defeated the Utah Mammoth in Round One and the Anaheim Ducks in Round Two, both in six games.\u00a0Vegas boasts the league leaders in playoff goals (Pavel Dorofeyev, 9), assists (Jack Eichel, 14)\u00a0and points (Mitch Marner, 18), in addition to the league\u2019s second-highest goalscorer (Brett Howden, 8).\u00a0Among remaining playoff teams, the Golden Knights\u2019\u00a025.7% power play ranks first, 86.8% penalty kill that has also posted a league-leading four shorthanded goals is the second best in the NHL.\u00a0In net for Vegas, Carter Hart has posted an 8-4 record along with a .917 save percentage and a 2.37 goals-against average in the playoffs.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Round One<\/p>\n
Game One:\u00a0UTA 2, VGK 4\u00a0<\/p>\n
Game Two:\u00a0UTA 3, VGK 2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Game Three:\u00a0VGK 2, UTA 4\u00a0<\/p>\n
Game Four:\u00a0VGK 5, UTA 4 (OT)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Game Five:\u00a0UTA 4, VGK 5 (2OT)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Game Six:\u00a0VGK 5, UTA 1\u00a0<\/p>\n
Round Two<\/p>\n
Game One: ANA 1, VGK\u00a03\u00a0<\/p>\n
Game Two: ANA 3, VGK\u00a01\u00a0<\/p>\n
Game Three:\u00a0VGK\u00a06,\u00a0ANA 2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Game Four:\u00a0VGK\u00a03,\u00a0ANA 4\u00a0<\/p>\n
Game Five:\u00a0UTA\u00a02, VGK\u00a03\u00a0(OT)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Game Six:\u00a0VGK 5,\u00a0ANA 1\u00a0<\/p>\n
Regular Season Series\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the three 2025-26 regular-season games against the Golden Knights, the Avalanche won in regulation and in a shootout while\u00a0losing in\u00a0overtime.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
October 31st:\u00a0COL 4, VGK 2<\/p>\n
December 27th:\u00a0COL 6, VGK 5 (SO)\u00a0<\/p>\n
April 11th:\u00a0VGK 3, COL 2 (OT)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How We Arrived Here\u00a0 Colorado Avalanche\u00a0 After a four-game sweep of the Los Angeles Kings in Round One,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-679981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}