Recap of Game 1:
The Avalanche squad is coming off of a high-scoring 8-6 win in Tuesday night's Game 1 contest. Colorado (8) and Edmonton (6) made this the highest-scoring Game 1 in a Conference Finals/Semifinals series in 37 years.
Colorado scored seven or more goals for the third time this postseason - also: Games 1 and 3 of the first round against Nashville, May 3 & 7 , its most such performances in a single playoff year. Previously, the Avs scored 7+ goals twice in 2020, both in their first-round series against Arizona.
On Tuesday, J.T. Compher scored two goals for the second-straight game, the first Avalanche player to score twice in consecutive playoff outings since Nathan MacKinnon did it in the first two games of the 2021 First Round against St. Louis.
The Avalanche has won Game 1 in each of their postseason series thus far. Colorado owns a 19-6 series record when winning the first game of a best-of-seven playoff matchup.
STATS BREAKDOWN:
Avalanche:
Goals: 8
Assists: 10
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Points: 18
Power Play (in series): 50%
Penalty kill (in series): 50%
FOW%: 46.3
Hits: 34
Blocks: 21
Shots: 47
Edmonton:
Goals: 6
Assists: 12
Points: 18
Power Play (in series): 50%
Penalty kill (in series): 50%
FOW%: 53.7
Hits: 46
Blocks: 15
Shots: 37
NOTEWORTHY:
Nazem Kadri scored his eighth playoff power-play goal since joining the Avalanche in 2020, the second-most of any Avalanche player in that span (Nathan MacKinnon, 9). Kadri's nine shots on goal in Game 1 established a new career-best… The Avalanche's eight goals equaled the franchise-best for goals in a Stanley Cup Playoff game (also: May 4, 2002 vs. San Jose and June 6, 1996 vs. Florida)... Andrew Cogliano's goal stood as the game winner, his team-leading second game-winning goal of the postseason. Cogliano had one game-winning tally in the playoffs prior to this year, against Dallas on April 18, 2014… Mikko Rantanen collected his 25th career playoff power-play point and tied Milan Hejduk for sixth place on the Avalanche/Nordiques all-time list.
