Avalanche HC Jared Bednar sounds off on power play after Game 2 breakout

The Colorado Avalanche finished the regular season with the best record in the NHL and as the favorites to win the Stanley Cup, but they had one major flaw during the regular season. Colorado’s power play, known as one of the most dangerous in hockey, finished just 27th in the NHL this season.

That power play struggled a bit in a first-round sweep of the Kings, but it has come alive in the second round against the Minnesota Wild. The Avs scored two goals on the man-advantage in a 5-2 victory in Game 2 on Tuesday night as both Gabriel Landeskog and Nathan MacKinnon found the back of the net.

After the game, Avalanche head coach Jared Bednar didn’t hide his feelings about his power play finally showing up.

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“Everything,” Bednar said when asked what he liked about the power play. “I like it in parts of the Kings series as well. It’s much improved from the Olympic break on. I know people look at our percentage on the year, and when you go five months with it being poor, your percentage isn’t gonna climb that much. … It’s just showing that those top guys are really dialed in.”

As a whole, the Avs finished 2-for-5 on the power play while the Wild were held scoreless on two opportunities, so the Colorado special teams had a massive impact on the final result of this game. Colorado also finished 1-for-2 on the power play in its 9-6 Game 1 win, while the Wild went 0-for-3. If the Wild don’t flip that trend moving forward, it will be very tough for them to come back in this series.

Landeskog netted Colorado’s first power play goal of this game off of a beautiful sequence of puck movement, with MacKinnon and Martin Necas setting him up. MacKinnon’s power-play goal came in the third period to give the Avs a 4-1 lead and salt the game away.

The Wild now have three days off to figure out how to level the special teams battle before Game 3 on Saturday, but it will be easier said than done against a talented Avs lineup.

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