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The Colorado Avalanche Will Face Elimination On Friday And Josh Kroenke On Patrick Roy

04/19/2018 at 6:54am EDT

from Mike Chambers of the Denver Post,

The Presidents’ Trophy-winning Preds overwhelmed the Avs from the first drop of the puck in Game 4, scoring the first three goals before holding on late for a 3-2 victory that puts them on the brink of advancing to the Western Conference semifinals.

Nashville takes a 3-1 series lead to Game 5 on Friday on its home ice.

“I loved our third, there’s no question. But we need to find that urgency earlier,” Avs coach Jared Bednar said. “Even after it was 3-2, we had to have three or four real good looks at the net.”

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from Mark Kiszla of the Denver Post,

When this season is over for Colorado, perhaps as soon as Friday night, when Game 5 will be played in Nashville, there will be praises sung for Nathan MacKinnon as the most valuable player in the league and admiration for how the feisty young Avalanche made pro hockey relevant again in Denver.

But this was also the year when the Avalanche finally buried the chaos created by Roy when he abruptly quit as the team’s coach in August 2016.

“He left us in the lurch,” Avalanche president Josh Kroenke told me last week, while marveling how the vision of general manager Joe Sakic has triumphed over the vote of no-confidence given by Roy on his way out the door.

Make no mistake. Bruises remain from how Roy dumped the Avs.

“I don’t really respect the way (Roy) handled it,” Kroenke said. “He went public before I even had a chance to talk with him....

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Watch the game highlights below along with some chippy play...

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