Mile High Hockey · Jun 27, 2022
Recap: Avalanche Win Game 6 (and also the STANLEY CUP!!)
Your Colorado Avalanche are Stanley Cup Champions, beating the back-to-back defending champion Tampa Bay Lightning in six games.
Cale Makar won the Conn Smythe trophy with 29 points in 20 games, and Captain Gabriel Landeskog took a quick skate with the Cup before passing it off to the longest tenured Av (and Denver pro athlete) Erik Johnson.
That’s it, that’s all you need to know. Get off the internet and celebrate! But here’s how it happened anyway.
FIRST PERIOD
Nathan Mackinnon’s line started out against Nick Paul centering Alex Killorn and Brandon Hagel - a slight change with Paul replacing Cirelli who was too injured to play center and instead played wing tonight.