Avalanche lament playoff elimination in Game 6 after top regular season

“I mean, I’m going in my ninth year and I haven’t won losing four in a row to a team.

“It’s tough to find any because nobody wants to play just a good regular season and then lose in the second round,” Avalanche forward Mikko Rantanen said.

But a couple of bounces go the wrong way and couple of shifts where we’re not really engaged or not really focused they capitalized on.

Colorado had five winning streaks of at least five games, including a season-high seven-game streak from March 10-22, which began a stretch when they were 18-1-2.

“If people want to come at somebody, it’s me,” he said.

You see the look on our guys’ faces, how much they want it, how much they care and how hard they’re working.

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