Colorado Avalanche Mismanage Overtime and Shootout

The Colorado Avalanche escaped with a point but ultimately lost in the shootout because of mismanagement of extra hockey.

The Colorado Avalanche dropped a shootout loss against the New York Rangers. They mismanaged the overtime and shootout — otherwise, a highly-skilled skating and puck-handling team should have won in either of those situations.

So, correction, the coaching staff mismanaged the overtime and shootout. There’s no reason that roster should be out-skated in overtime and out-skilled in the shootout.

Let’s look at how the extra hockey went awry for the Colorado Avalanche.

Overtime

Journeyman forward Ray Bourque got exponentially more time in overtime than Tyson Jost did. That timing…