Kiszla: Vegas Turns MacKinnon And Colorado Centers Into Ghosts

The Avalanche’s top-line center play has gone missing in Vegas, and that is usually where a playoff series starts to tilt from problem to crisis. When Nathan MacKinnon and the other Colorado centers disappear into the kind of defensive trap the Golden Knights love to spring, the whole offensive structure starts to wobble. Vegas is not just winning puck battles - it is forcing Colorado into a version of the game the Avalanche clearly do not want to play.