Lightning coach Jon Cooper knows what Avalanche needs — a little adversity | Journal

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... No one has described this Colorado Avalanche season better than Jon Cooper. The Tampa Bay Lightning coach was speaking to the media ahead of a Jan. 6 game against the Avalanche, and he said the phrase “three regulation losses.” It wasn’t what he said though, it was how he said it. There was a little chuckle. It felt inadvertent and instinctual. Like the coach who has won the Stanley Cup twice and a Four Nations gold medal couldn’t help but offer a “this doesn’t even seem possible” reaction. If Cooper caught one of the clips from Jared Bednar’s postgame press conference Saturday night, it probably...