Game Five Preview: Gut check time for the Colorado Avalanche

Colorado Avalanche: 2-2

The Opponent: Seattle Kraken (2-2)

Time: 7:30 p.m. MT

Watch: ESPN, ALT, ROOT-NW

Listen: Altitude Sports Radio FM 92.5,AM 950

Opponent’s Beat: Davy Jones’ Locker Room

Despite what many fans, pundits, and sharps in the desert believed coming into this series, the Colorado Avalanche and Seattle Kraken have played each other to a draw by pretty much any measure you look at. The series is tied 2-2, the Avs have a slight Corsi edge at 5-on-5 this series at 51 percent, and the Kraken have a slight expected goals edge at 51 percent.

Many in Colorado have interpreted this even split as proof that the sky is falling and the Avs are in deep trouble, but it simply just reinforces…