SEE YOU SUNDAY, COACH

Before Game 5, the Avs were 1-13 in their last 14 games vs the Predators.

But...they were 1-0 in elimination games, having won game 82 vs the Blues.

Down to their 3rd-string goalie, missing their top defenseman, which trend would hold strong?

After losing Game 4 at home, the Avs coach tweeted this:

Now that's great and all...but it's a little silly, right. Like, you've only 1 out of the last 14 games against this team. You're going to back to Nashville. If the Predators win, it's Preds in 5 and no one would bat an eye. The only game the Avs won was the first home game of the series because of all the energy in the building, but Nashville is just better...you know? So the idea of See you Sunday, coach...that's a little silly.

So here's Game 5 last night:

Scoreless all game until the Predators get a soccer goal at the 6:00 minute mark of the video. Overturned in Toronto. Really, indisputable? I dispute.

And just like that there's 9 minutes left in the Avs season. It would have been very typical for Nashville to immediately score following that disputed goal, then add an empty netter for a final of 3-0 and Avs fans are like, but wait...this should have been 0-0...

But that didn't happen.

With 4 minutes left in their season, Rantanen finds MacKinnon who does all the work and drops the puck off to Landeskog on the doorstep. TIE GAME.

And then with a minute and a half:

See you Sunday, Coach!

Look, Nashville is the better team. I didn't expect the Avs to stretch the series to 6. So I'm still thinking the Preds close it out on Sunday. But even if they do...

The Kings and Ducks got swept and are already on the golf course. The fucking Wild are eliminated and have all offseason to do inventory of their zero Stanley Cups. And the Avs have another playoff game.