The Avalanche needed a big response game after they were, by their own admission, outcompeted by the Wild in Game 3, a 5-1 loss.<\/p>\n
They got that big response in Game 4, and it was punctuated by the three shifts following Sturm’s game-tying goal, three shifts leading to a go-ahead goal that has them up 3-1 in the best-of-7 series going home to Denver for Game 5 at Ball Arena on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
“It’s belief in this room, confidence in this room, determination,” captain Gabriel Landeskog<\/a>\u00a0said. “Those three things, and you sprinkle in the skill that we have and the depth that we have, it’s a powerful combination. Guys knew what was at stake tonight, how important this game was to not give them any more life than they got in Game 3. I thought we did a good job.”<\/p>\n The best part?<\/p>\n It was Colorado’s depth guys and a goalie making his first start in this postseason that made it happen.<\/p>\n “Doesn’t come as a surprise to us,” Landeskog said. “We’ve seen it all season.”<\/p>\n Ross Colton<\/a> gave Colorado a 2-1 lead at 6:56 of the third period, connecting on a backdoor one-timer off a feed from Nicolas Roy<\/a>. It was his first goal since March 24, a span of 18 games, including six in the playoffs.<\/p>\n “I’ll take one big playoff goal over a handful of regular-season goals any day,” Bednar said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Avalanche needed a big response game after they were, by their own admission, outcompeted by the Wild…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-664017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}