But Colorado, one of the league\u2019s perennial contenders, pushed back in the second, turning a 2-1 deficit into a 4-2 lead.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen they started to take momentum, I didn’t think we were able to put some shifts together to just pause it a little bit more,\u201d Muse said.<\/p>\n
Part of the issue was Pittsburgh\u2019s power play, which has gone 0-for-20 since scoring twice in each of the first two games. They had a massive opportunity to swing the momentum after the Avalanche took a 3-2 lead. But they didn\u2019t generate much in the first half before taking a penalty of their own. Colorado then scored on their abbreviated man-advantage.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, it hasn’t really worked in our favor lately,\u201d Karlsson said. \u201cWe have our top guys on the power play for a reason. And when you’re feeling good there, usually you feel good in the game, too. And obviously, the power play has been a little bit of a letdown for us lately. Maybe it\u2019s bleeding a little bit into our game. It’s unfortunate. We just got to find a way to turn it around.\u201d<\/p>\n
They have to turn it around quick, with a rested Vegas team waiting for the Penguins on Saturday night. To find a better result, Rust said they need better consistency.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we obviously liked our start and our first period a lot better, but I think good teams are consistent not only night to night, but also period to period,\u201d Rust said. \u201cI think we learned that lesson.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But Colorado, one of the league\u2019s perennial contenders, pushed back in the second, turning a 2-1 deficit into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-308561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}