Well, the Avs won again tonight, and now lead the series 3-2 (which, amazingly enough, happens to be the final score in games 1, 2, 3, and 5 as well). Only the game I watched earlier this week was different (the 5-1 blowout).

In any case, before the playoff series began, I told one of my coworkers I thought the Avs would win in 6. It’s because I know that Minnesota isn’t a knock-over team. However, I didn’t really have any concrete reason to say that the Avs would win in 6 other than that it sounded like a reasonable number. Now, if the Avs win Saturday, they’ll have won the series in game 6 and I’ll be proven a profit…erm, prophet.

Even if they manage to lose Saturday, I still say the Avs will win the series, if for no other reason than this stat: the Wild have only lead for 4:31 out of a possible 324:23 in five games (the reason for the odd times are due to the OT in games 1-3). Of course, a lot of that time was spent tied (i.e., all the OT happened for a reason ya know). But still, when you only lead for 1.4% of time played over the course of five games…you’re going to lose the series. In fact, were it not for a couple of extremely odd bounces, the series would already be over, as Minnesota’s goals seem to come on some of the strangest flukes in hockey. And luck will only carry you so far, as we have seen the past two games.