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The Pittsburgh Penguins should flip the script on the blue line. NHL rumors from Philly. The Colorado Avalanche advanced with miracle goal...

Boston: The Bruins’ offseason is not off to a good start. Get the full story–but Vrana wasn’t so happy to be a Detroit Red Wing. The real question is–who else should stay? For the second time in these NHL playoffs, just as everyone exhaled at the end of regulation and began to settle in for a playoff OT, someone beat the buzzer. The Avalanche are winners! “Should they keep him,” is the wrong question.

The Oilers and Avalanche face off in the Western Conference Final of the 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs. We break down when the series starts and how to watch.

Thursday, June 2: Oilers at Avalanche 8 p.m. ET, TNT The Oilers were able to ease past the No. 1 seeded Calgary Flames in five games. The Blues gave the Avs a fight after being swept by them a year ago.

The St. Louis Blues season is over after a heartbreaking 3-2 loss in Game 6 to the Colorado Avalanche in the 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

A great example of that was Helm and Compher being the only goalscorers in the clinching game. Dumping the puck in that spot is a sign that the Blues were begging for overtime, and it burned them. The team in front of him let him down by allowing the Avalanche to skate all over them. That was more than likely the final game for Ville Husso as a member of the Blues, as he will be an unrestricted free agent in the summer. The series ended with the rightful winner, as the Avalanche carried the play and have been due to get out of the second round for a long time. With that play, Kyrou was too nonchalant with the puck and committed to deking instead of shooting.

Darren Helm scored a late goal in the third period of Game 6 of the second-round series against the St. Louis Blues to clinch the Avs' first conference ...

The Avalanche had been eliminated in the second round each of the past three years. We didn't play the way we needed to here, which made it difficult to win. I just wanted to get the puck on the net, and it found its way." "There's no other guy that deserves it as much as he does," Colorado forward Gabriel Landeskog added. "I was just kind of trailing. "We had three guys going hard to the net," Helm said of the game-winner.

The Avalanche were dominant in Game 6, firing 39 shots on Blues goaltender Ville Husso. The Blues, on the other hand, got out to another slow start and never ...

And Kyrou scored on a two-on-one rush with Brayden Schenn when Kuemper was unable to move laterally in time to make the save. But it’s not going to get any easier in the conference final when Colorado faces off against the Edmonton Oilers. I think Kuemper is up to the task. Go ahead and stand in the goal crease at your local arena and you’ll soon realize that it’s a fool’s errand to think goaltenders are capable of purely reacting and making the save from that close. And it’s on the goaltender to make slight lateral adjustments to stay square. Colorado couldn’t afford to sit back and protect the lead like it did in Game 5 – a tactic that eventually blew up in its face when St. Louis mounted a comeback and won in overtime. And that ended up being true throughout the series, especially in Game 6. When Blues defenseman Justin Faulk scored with one minute remaining in the first period, I thought St. Louis had a chance to win. And that was largely the case. Game 6 Between the Colorado Avalanche and St. Louis Blues was a battle until the very end. I think the first period was about survival for the Blues, and they were successful. Despite Colorado maintaining puck possession for most of the first frame, they weren’t able to generate many chances that – as a goaltender – would have made me nervous. But Avalanche forward Darren Helm scored with just 5.6 seconds remaining in the third period to clinch the second-round Stanley Cup playoff series for Colorado.

The Colorado Avalanche are -250 favorites over the Edmonton Oilers in the Stanley Cup Western Conference final · It's the first playoff series between Colorado ...

Edmonton is at a betting line of +183 to win the West and +550 to capture the Cup. He’s tied for first on the Avalanche with 13 points (3-10) this postseason. His 82 points in 60 contests rates as the third-highest average (1.37) in NHL postseason history. Prior to this season, the winning team between Colorado and Edmonton had covered the puckline in five straight games. He’s garnered 44 points in 45 career Stanley Cup games. Draisaitl collected 17 points in the five-game Calgary series. Edmonton’s dynamic duo of Connor McDavid (7-19-26) and Leon Draisaitl (7-19-26) sit tied atop the playoff scoring race with identical stat lines. Colorado is being set as the -250 favorites to win the series. Game 1 of the Western Conference final is set for 8 pm ET at Ball Arena on Tuesday, May 31. This is the first time these two teams are clashing in the NHL playoff bracket since the second round of the 1998 playoffs. Edmonton’s last trip to the conference final was in 2006. Colorado 3 Edmonton 2 (OT)

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Colorado coach Jared Bednar had been looking for a little extra aggressiveness from veteran center Darren Helm.

Faulk scored late in the first period on a wrist shot from between the circles. Compher then tied it 2-2 on a wrist shot from the faceoff dot with 9:41 left in the third. He pounced on the rebound of a shot from Josh Manson to tie the score 1-1 early in the second period. “You could tell the belief was there.” Wayne Gretzky attended the contest. That's the way it goes. St. Louis coach Craig Berube added: “It's tough, a tough way to end it. Kuemper, who missed part of the first round series against Nashville with an eye injury, improved to 6-2. “A super-clutch goal,” Kuemper said. J.T. Compher scored twice for Colorado, which advanced to the Western Conference finals for first time since 2002. “There's no other guy that deserves it as much as he does,” Colorado forward Gabriel Landeskog said. The pass bounced off the side wall.