The beginning of the end for Jack Johnson’s goal drought was at first intermission.
Avalanche coach Jared Bednar identified an adjustment he wanted to make Monday night in Anaheim. The veteran third-pairing blueliner Johnson delivered.
“We went over a couple things after the first period that we felt like we could do, in order to create some offense,” Bednar said. “And shooting it from the point was part of it. Taking the middle of the ice from the point was part of it, if (the Ducks) were slow to get out there. And he did both. It’s a little bit of an extended shift.