It seemed too good to be true. So good, in fact, that it’s a situation never practiced by the Avalanche.
Colorado has a 6-on-3 set that the players keep bookmarked in the second or third browser inside their brains. But it’s not a common enough circumstance to waste practice time on it.
The necessary ingredients: two sequential penalties committed by an opponent in the last two or three minutes of a close game that the Avs are trailing, already requiring them to pull the goalie.
“We have our set,” coach Jared Bednar said. “We know what it is.