Well, this series sure hasn’t gone quite as I expected. If you listen to the MHH Lab podcast, you know the Jason Robertson injury shifted my prediction to a 5 game Avs victory lap over the depleted Stars. My logic was simple: without Robertson, the Stars forward depth advantage was no longer as big and their defense without Miro Heiskanen wasn’t good enough to slow down Colorado’s big guns.
What I failed to factor in was that the Avs big guns might just not come out firing. It’s been perplexing to watch Nathan MacKinnon and Cale Makar miss passes, whiff one timers, and turn pucks over with the regularity they have through three games.