Colorado’s players spent the entire night chasing the guys in red, particularly after giving the puck back to them.
Carolina Hurricanes’ Sean Walker has his shot slide past Colorado Avalanche goaltender Scott Wedgewood and Chris Wagner with Hurricanes’ William Carrier nearby during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Raleigh, N.C., Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. RALEIGH, N.C. — The Colorado Avalanche spends most games dictating the terms of engagement, holding onto the puck and making its opponents chase and react accordingly.
Colorado struggled to create any sort of extended offensive pressure and repeatedly turned the puck over in its own zone. The Avs’ top line did create chances, including some excellent ones. Those players’ normally ruthless finishing skills escaped them too often, and the rest of the roster spent most of the night under siege at the other end of the ice.
The Avs did not have the puck very often in the first period, but the top line did create a pair of breakaways. Kochetkov stopped Nathan MacKinnon on the first one, but Artturi Lehkonen beat him on the second at 9:13. Cale Makar sprung Lehkonen with a perfect pass from below the Colorado goal line to the streaking forward at center ice.
The second period looked a lot like the first, except the Hurricanes pulled ahead. Seth Jarvis was wide open at the top of the right circle with Carolina on the power play at 4:09 of the second. Wedgewood had Joel Kiviranta between him and Jarvis and appeared to look around his teammate to the short side just as Jarvis teed up a shot that beat him to the far side.
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