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 wasn’t hard to figure out — our second-line center never made an appearance in the overtime.