{"id":661487,"date":"2026-05-24T01:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T01:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/661487\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T01:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T01:49:09","slug":"avalanche-must-put-on-our-work-boots-for-game-3-of-western-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/661487\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche must \u2018put on our work boots\u2019 for Game 3 of Western Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Game 3 shifts to T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday (8 p.m. ET; ESPN, SN, TVAS, CBC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey still haven&#8217;t seen our best, and maybe we haven&#8217;t seen their best either,\u201d Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said on Saturday. \u201cWe have a number of areas in our game that we can improve for Game 3 to get us a better chance of winning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I felt like we played our best game in Game 1 and our best game in Game 2 and we lost, I&#8217;d be a little bit more like, \u2018Oh, I&#8217;m really worried about this.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Colorado lost the series opener 4-2 on Wednesday, then was unable to protect a one-goal lead in the third period of Game 2, a 3-1 loss on Friday. The Avalanche were 45-0-0 when leading after two periods in the 2025-26 regular season and playoffs combined and won the Presidents\u2019 Trophy as the League\u2019s best regular-season team (55-16-11, 121 points).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously weren\u2019t expecting being down 2-0, but I mean, we\u2019ve just got to put on our work boots and be ready for the next game,\u201d forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/nicolas-roy-8478462\" title=\"Nicolas Roy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicolas Roy<\/a> said. \u201cI think we&#8217;ve been playing pretty good. We haven&#8217;t been opportunistic enough, (and) I think we can create more chaos at the net front as well. I think we\u2019re doing some good things, but we definitely can do better as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe in this group. You look at the video, think you can do better, and we&#8217;ll be ready for the next game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Game 3 shifts to T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday (8 p.m. ET; ESPN, SN, TVAS, CBC).&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-661487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}