Confidence in group, effort last through Colorado Avalanche's playoff ouster
Jun. 11—Everything was going very well for the Colorado Avalanche until suddenly it wasn't. They went out as a largely unchanged unit and holding to the assertion that they were playing well — just not quite well enough.
Colorado won its first six playoff games and lost its last four, ousted by the Vegas Golden Knights in Game 6 on Thursday night. Vegas scored twice in the final six minutes of Game 3 to avoid a 3-0 series hole and rolled from there.
"It felt like last year was our first real chance to win and this year I thought we were the best team in the league," forward Nathan MacKinnon said. "For whatever reason, we just couldn't get it together.
