Do the Avalanche feel like they let a great opportunity slip away late in Game 2?

A little bit.

“I think, given the circumstances of the game, we feel as though we would have liked a better outcome,” Logan O’Connor said on Tuesday.

“We went in there, got one win. It’s great. Would love to have two, (but) we didn’t,” coach Jared Bednar said.

Any time a team starts a playoff series on the road, the goal is to come home with at least a split, flipping the home-ice advantage. The Avalanche did that by winning Game 1. They were 10 minutes away from coming back to Denver with a commanding 2-0 lead.

A desperate Stars team didn’t allow that to happen, although the Avalanche weren’t happy with how they finished the game.

“There’s a lot of things we can learn from that game,” O’Connor said. “I think we got on our heels there in the third period. We were flipping a lot of pucks out when we necessarily didn’t have to. We weren’t skating to make plays, and those are things that we’re going to learn along the series.”

Dallas changed some of its lines. That included Mikko Rantanen moving away from Wyatt Johnston and being put back with his fellow Finns Roope Hintz and Mikael Granlund.

Those adjustments paid off. Now it’s Colorado’s turn to make some adjustments.

The second line of Valeri Nichushkin, Brock Nelson and Jonathan Drouin has been a disappointment through two games. Over the course of an 82-game regular season, the Avalanche would be willing to give them a few more games to figure things out. That’s harder to do in a seven-game series, so there may be a few changes when the puck drops for Game 3.

“We’re thinking about (changes) right now, because we need to get some offense out of those guys,” Bednar said. “I think they’ve been a responsible defending line … but a second line, it’s very important that they create some offense and they haven’t been creating much offense as a line.”

And, yes, Gabriel Landeskog is again a potential option to enter the lineup. He took warmups prior to Game 2 but was scratched in favor of Miles Wood.

If Landeskog returned in front of the Ball Arena crowd, the building might explode. Could that potential boost come into play when Bednar decides on his lineup Wednesday?

“Possibly. I think it could,” he said. “I think he brings a lot to the table when it comes to his leadership and his presence in the room and then we’ll see how it goes on the ice. But I think he provides a lot of things that could help us in Game 3.”