Three stars from the Avs’ 3-2 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final on Wednesday at Amalie Arena:
Nazem Kadri, C, Avalanche — Garbage ice. Sweet winner. Kadri’s remarkable postseason story adds another remarkable chapter with No. 91’s breakaway wrister for the top-shelf goal to end OT in Tampa. It was a poetic finish for the Avs’ most dynamic forward of the last six weeks. A game-winner in his first appearance in the Stanley Cup Final. A game-winner just a few hours after he’d raised eyebrows on Twitter by telling ESPN after the first period that the ice at Amalie Arena was “kind of garbage.