Avs win!
Avalanche Notebook | (5)
It's over! Colorado is the first Western Conference team to advance to the second round.
It was a tight game again, with the Avs winning 2-1 (in 14 games between the clubs, it was the first time the winning team had less than 3 goals). Before the series started, I said that the Avs might get some shorthanded chances, and maybe they'd score a key goal on the PK. That finally came true tonight, with Ben Guite netting a shortie in the first.
Another big game for Jose Theodore and probably the best game of the playoffs for Joe Sakic (who seemed ...