Live, Laugh, LEHKONEN | Avalanche Review Game 75

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4.5 • 566 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Artturi Lehkonen sets up the game winning goal, helping the Avalanche finally break through in a heavily defensive game against the Stars. Necas was on the receiving end and tapped it home while MacKinnon added an empty net goal. 📬 Denver sports in your inbox: https://thednvr.com/newsletter An ALLCITY Network Production PARTY WITH US: https://thednvr.com/events ALL THINGS DNVR: https://linktr.ee/dnvrsports BALL-KNOWER BONUS/Merch: https://promotion.allcitynetwork.com/all SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/DNVR_Sports BUY GOLDEN ERA: Golden Era | Triumph Books Raising Cane’s Rooftop Fridays: https://thednvr.com/event/friday-rooftop-club-at-coors-field-presented-by-raising-canes/ Toyota: Visit Your Front Range Toyota Stores at a location near you - Toyota is the official vehicle of DNVR. Toyota - Let’s Go Places! First Bank: So, if you're ready for better banking and the chance to earn a little extra, head to efirstbank.com/bonus. Certain restrictions and requirements apply. Member FDIC. Monarch Money: Use Monarch Money to get control of your overall finances with 50% off your first year at https://www.monarchmoney.com/dnvr Use code DNVR50 to get 50% OFF your first Factor box and 20% off your next month with any active subscription at https://factormeals.com/dnvr50. Gametime: Download the app, create an account, and use code DNVR for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply. Shady Rays: Head to https://shadyrays.com and use code: DNVR for 35% off polarized sunglasses. Try for yourself the shades rated 5 stars by over 300,000 people. When you shop through links in the description, we may earn affiliate commissions. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.

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0:00.0	It turns out when you get saves, you don't actually need that many goals.
0:03.7	Avs win over the Dallas Stars 2 to nothing.
0:06.5	Look, a zero is on the board.
0:08.2	Credit to your goaltender.
0:09.6	Scott Wedgwood played great in this game.
0:11.2	I don't think he had a particularly heavy workload facing 17 shots on goal total,
0:15.7	and really not that many of them were particularly scary or high danger.
0:20.1	That doesn't change the fact that he
0:21.7	let zero goals in, though. Just strictly better than McKenzie Blackwood. While I am still a believer
0:26.9	in McKenzie Blackwood, at a certain point you have to face the facts in front of you, and certainly
0:31.3	Scott Wedgwood is playing too well right now to be ignored. The playoffs are still two weeks away,
0:36.3	and we will see what happens across those two weeks,
0:39.1	but if the playoffs were to start tomorrow, I think you have to start Wedgwood at this point.
0:43.0	With that being said, in front of Wedgwood, the avalanche defense was elite for the vast
0:48.0	majority of this game.
0:49.4	They would give up eight shots on goal to Dallas in the first period, and then just nine
0:52.9	shots on goal for the remaining 40 minutes of the game. That is extremely effective hockey. It's never perfect. The first shot of the game they give up is a bad defensive play by Nathan McKinnon, but the team as a whole really did a great job of locking it down and limiting Dallas. Particularly in the first period, yes, it was low event hockey, but the
1:10.8	abs were doing the majority of the possessing the puck in the offensive zone and functioning
1:15.1	well. Unfortunately, they just weren't finishing well, particularly Arturi Lekidon was not
1:20.3	finishing well in the first period. They also had a power play in the first, which was very bad.
1:24.6	That would be the only power play of the game for the abs. In the context of this game is just kind of leaning towards the game that had to be played in this slow, grindy, defensive way.
1:33.8	The ice was terrible because it's April and Dallas.
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