3. Manage the Back-to-Back
The Colorado Avalanche have their first back-to-back series of the season. They play the Florida Panthers on Friday and Tampa Bay on Saturday.
That’s not too bad of a back-to-back. The two teams are close to each other, and the games are early enough that the players shouldn’t miss too much sleep getting from one city to the other.
What’s more, Florida isn’t putting up the best performances, and even Tampa has seemed human at times. It’s nothing like the one-two punch of Washington and then Pittsburgh earlier in the week.
I imagine we’ll see Pbilipp Grubauer in net one night and Pavel Francouz the next. Probably, to be honest, vice versa.