“I think our puck decisions lacked some maturity at times,” Logan O’Connor said after the Avs collapsed late in Game 2. “And therefore we deviated from the game plan that had given us some success throughout the game.”

The Saga of Cale Makar over the past four or five days has already turned the kids on the Grading The Week (GTW) staff into a bit of an emotional wreck going into the holiday weekend. But the peeks we’ve taken over to the NBA’s Western Conference Finals have only made our collective ulcers worse.

The Avalanche on the power play were already a hard watch with a healthy Cale Makar along the blue line. Without him, the Avs’ power play reads like a Sean Payton script: Pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, punt.

The Vegas Golden Knights stun the Colorado Avalanche, winning Game 2 of the NHL Western Conference Final 3-1 at Ball Arena, Friday, May 22, 2026.

Dude, Where’s Makar? The Avs without No. 8 were 86’d.

For the first time in the 2025-26 season, this Colorado Avalanche dream run is in real danger of becoming a nightmare.