“I was really impressed with our team’s performance last night,” coach Jared Bednar said before leaving Avalanche for Florida. “I thought they had called [in] all aspects of our game, very dedicated and full of energy and we had a good night. “But [if] is 7-0, 1-0, it does not matter. It’s a show. We need four or more great performances because you have to have a great performance to win the Stanley Cup final and we are halfway to two wins. “We will have to play very good hockey here in the future. We know the job will be much harder in Tampa.” Colorado won its seventh consecutive Stanley Cup playoff game and leads the best-of-7 series with Game 3 at the Amalie Arena on Monday (8pm ET; ABC, ESPN +, CBC, SN, TVAS). [RELATED: Stanley Cup Final coverage | Stanley Cup Final schedule] With a 3-0 and 5-0 lead on Saturday, Avalanche continued to attack in waves. And when they did not have the elf, they managed to get it back most of the time. Colorado reduced Tampa Bay to 16 shots on goal and 29 shooting attempts. “We had a lot of courage,” said Avalanche defender Erik Johnson. “I think it was a lot. We did very, very well. We played as a connected unit of five people all over the ice. Our prognosis was probably the key. “Never [our] The kids in the attack push in the way they have, it’s hard to play against. So I think from the beginning our prognosis was in progress and I think that made the biggest difference “. The Avalanche have often used rapid pressure to turn the elf upside down. Although they say it is not the main strategy, there was an element of physicality in their game. Tampa Bay has played more games in the playoffs this season (19-16 in Colorado) and more games after the season in the last three (67-41). “Obviously this is very important for the playoffs,” said striker Mikko Rantanen, who had three assists in Game 2. “We do not really think about the fact that they have played great seasons in the last two years. “The pre-test must be a factor, and our speed, and we did it last night. They had a problem breaking their leg and we just have to keep doing the exact same thing.” The Avalanche have won 14 of their 16 games in the 2022 playoffs and, given how decisive their victory in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final, they say their guard will be ahead of Game 3 on some potential issues. . One will be overconfidence. Johnson said that Colorado knows that Tampa Bay is 7-1 at home in the playoffs, against 5-6 at home. “We know they will be a much better team at home than when they are on the road, so we expect them to play their best games here at [Games] “3 and 4. From our point of view, nothing changes,” he said. “Our mentality was the same all year, all the playoffs, so what are we sure of? We have not won anything yet. “Our mentality is exactly the same as it was in all the playoffs.” Another issue could be adjustments. The teams always succeed, but Bednar said on Sunday that he has little or no temptation to try to fix something that has not broken. “I could use this game as a template,” Bednar said of Game 2. “This is a game we’ve been trying to get to all the time. I think we’ve gotten there from time to time in the past. to do, but then we shot the elf well.We hit our targets.We could win [Lightning goalie Andrei] Vasilevsky. “Sometimes we play well and we do not finish our chances like we did last night. Everything came together for us last night. We will go out and try or better repeat this performance here in game 3. That is our goal. “
