ST. LOUIS — That weeklong break for the Avalanche was only briefly beneficial.
After a terrific Game 1 and a poor Game 2 against the St. Louis Blues, Avalanche coach Jared Bednar is convinced his club will get back into the regular routine of playing and winning as it did in sweeping Nashville in the first round.
The sweep led to a weeklong break between games. It wasn’t ideal.
“You go (seven) days off, come back, you’re practicing, you’re trying to stay on the ice, trying to give them some heavy days, some lighter days, and then you go out and play Game 1 and you put a lot into that game, and clearly we didn’t have the energy that we needed in Game 2,” Bednar said Saturday ahead of Game 3 of the Western Conference semifinal series at Enterprise Center.