Team Identity: Colorado's One Simple Trick To Create Rush Chances

The Avs' best-in-league transition game starts with their back end

The Colorado Avalanche has figured out how to have its cake and eat it too.

Throughout the 2019-20 regular season, Colorado led the way in both 5v5 controlled exit percentage and controlled entry percentage in Corey Sznajder’s microstats tracking. There simply wasn’t a better NHL team at executing the fundamentals of possession hockey than head coach Jar…