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VGK Leads Series 3-0
Vegas walks into Game 4 with the kind of swagger that only comes from surviving storms and turning them into fuel. Mitch Marner has become the quiet puppeteer of this series — not loud, not flashy, just relentlessly productive, stitching together the transition game that keeps Colorado off‑balance. And behind him, Carter Hart has settled into that unnerving, playoff‑grade calm.
The first‑period wobble in Game 3 feels like a lifetime ago; since then he’s been a wall with a pulse, reading plays early, swallowing rebounds, and forcing the Avalanche to take the long way around every chance they get. Vegas isn’t just up 3–0 — they’re dictating the emotional temperature of the rink.
Colorado, meanwhile, is skating with the look of a team that expected to be writing the script, not reacting to it. Nathan MacKinnon is still generating danger every time he touches the puck, but Vegas has managed to turn his rushes into isolated moments instead of momentum swings.
And now the crease belongs to Scott Wedgewood, who inherits the most unforgiving assignment in hockey: keep your team alive while the building is roaring for the kill. If he steadies them early, Colorado can drag this back into a track meet. If he doesn’t, Vegas has the structure, the confidence, and the opportunism to turn this into a sweep before the Avalanche even catch their breath.
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