Jason Strudwick
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Analytics people right now have to continue to look at two teams because it still could go either way.
So just some of that stuff, obviously appreciating the fact that we're not playing a game in Denver.
So we will make good use of the rest.
It's a good time of year to get some rest and recovery for your team after you've been through three rounds.
Well, Colorado had an unbelievable season.
I did media before our series started.
I think I said they'd lost once or twice in their first 40 games.
I really respect how they built their teams there.
They had a great trade deadline.
When you looked at rosters post-deadline, they were deep everywhere.
I think Joe Sackick and Chris McFarlane, Jared Bednar have done a tremendous job with that team.
So when you go into that series, when you go into any series, really, you're trying to get an early sense of how you feel the two teams stack up.
And I wrote in my notes at the end of the first period of the first game, these teams are pretty even.
I felt that then, which for us was encouraging.
We were on the road in their environment.
They're a great team, and yet I thought the first period of that game was a pretty even period.
Really, the series ends up
Being a sweep, it ends up looking at a glance that it wasn't a close series.
Every game was very close.
We trailed for most of game two, had the two quick goals in the third period to sneak one out of Denver.