Bednar Stares Down The Avalanche’s Worst-Case Fallout

Colorado let a three-goal lead slip, and now the room has the kind of silence nobody enjoys. Jared Bednar is facing the blunt reality that the margin for error is gone and the questions are only getting louder. When a team blows that kind of cushion this late, the postgame answer almost writes itself, even if nobody in the building wants to hear it. The Avalanche have reached the point where every shift now carries elimination weight.