Moving like it had rocket boosters attached to its skate blades, the Avalanche overwhelmed the Tampa Bay Lightning in Saturday’s Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final, scoring early and often in a commanding 7-0 win at a raucous Ball Arena.
Length-of-the-rink speed that puts even experienced opponents on their heels. Four lines who can explode onto the score sheet. A power play that has carried momentum from the previous round. And a no-frills, detail-oriented defense that doesn’t allow any breathing room.
Valeri Nichushkin and Cale Makar scored two goals apiece, two of five Avalanche players who had at least two points. Josh Manson, Andre Burakovsky and Darren Helm also scored. Since 2010 , a team has led the final series 2-0 eight times and hoisted the Cup six of them, the exception being Vancouver in ’11, and only the Canucks were pushed to a seventh game.
The Avalanche struck quickly for a 1-0 lead. J.T. Compher drew a roughing penalty on Tampa Bay’s Ryan McDonagh 61 seconds into the game. From the right half-wall, Burakovsky centered a pass that Nichushkin — left alone in front of the net for some reason — slammed past Andrei Vasilevskiy for his seventh goal of the postseason only 2:54 in.
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