Colorado Avalanche roll past Philadelphia Flyers in decisive win

That brings us to the end of a wild first period — Colorado Avalanche 3, Philadelphia Flyers 1. Colorado Avalanche edged the shot clock 11-7, and they controlled most of the territorial pressure.

Kevin Fiala opened the scoring for Colorado Avalanche on the power play at 8:35, Nikita Kucherov extended the lead for Colorado Avalanche at 13:55, Marat Khusnutdinov cut the deficit for Philadelphia Flyers at 16:17, and Elias Lindholm extended the lead for Colorado Avalanche at 16:45.

Carter Hart was under siege with 8 highlighted stops.

On the power play, Colorado Avalanche went 1-for-1 while Philadelphia Flyers went 0-for-1.

Colorado Avalanche owned the last five minutes and carried the momentum into the break.

That brings us to the end of a second period — Colorado Avalanche 1, Philadelphia Flyers 0. Philadelphia Flyers edged the shot clock 10-7, with territorial pressure staying roughly even.

Evan Rodrigues extended the lead for Colorado Avalanche at 8:58.

Matt Murray was under siege with 10 highlighted stops.

On the power play, Colorado Avalanche went 0-for-1 while Philadelphia Flyers went 0-for-1.

Philadelphia Flyers owned the last five minutes and carried the momentum into the break.

That brings us to the end of a third period — Colorado Avalanche 1, Philadelphia Flyers 0. Colorado Avalanche edged the shot clock 10-6, with territorial pressure staying roughly even.

Nikita Kucherov extended the lead for Colorado Avalanche at 13:18.

Carter Hart was under siege with 8 highlighted stops.

On the power play, Philadelphia Flyers went 0-for-1.

Philadelphia Flyers owned the last five minutes and carried the momentum into the break.