Colorado Head Coach Robin Fraser said it very bluntly after the 2020 playoff loss in Minnesota to end the season for the Rapids, “We weren’t ready.” He started off 2021 reiterating that, maybe to remind people of where they were starting this season, or to motivate his side, but oh how they look ready now.
“I still feel that’s a game we could’ve won but in terms of being one-nil down early in that game, we got stretched,” Captain Jack Price told Burgundy Wave, looking back at that match. “I think this year, as a team, we’ve been collectively really good, really tight — dense as the gaffer likes to call it — so we’re harder to break down this year.