Avalanche right winger Joonas Don­skoi was “unfit to play” in Game 2 on Fri­day, and left winger Vladislav Namest­nikov skat­ed off in the first peri­od with an appar­ent upper-body injury after col­lid­ing with team­mate Nathan MacKinnon.

Fol­low­ing Colorado’s 3–2 win at Rogers Place in Edmon­ton, Avs coach Jared Bed­nar said both Don­skoi and Namest­nikov are “day-to-day.” In the COVID-19 cri­sis, the NHL has asked teams to not dif­fer­en­ti­ate between sick­ness and injury.

Don­skoi has two goals and four points in four play­off games, includ­ing three in last week’s round-robin. He was replaced Fri­day by Tyson Jost, who scored Colorado’s sec­ond goal.

Namest­nikov has a goal in four play­off games. If he and Don­skoi can­not play Sat­ur­day in Game 3, the Avs will bring in one of their four “black aces” — for­wards T.J. Tynan, Shel­don Dries, Logan O’Connor or Shane Bowers.

Tele­vi­sion blues. NBC Sports Net­work car­ried the first peri­od of the Avs game Fri­day before switch­ing to the start of the Philadel­phia-Mon­tre­al series. Colorado’s game was avail­able in its entire­ty on the NBC Sports app, NHL Net­work and Alti­tude, the region­al sports net­work that isn’t offered to Com­cast and Dish Net­work subscribers.

Clear­ly, NBC felt like its nation­al broad­cast would gar­ner more view­ers from the Fly­ers-Cana­di­ens game. In the ensu­ing rounds, there will be less over­lap for NBC to choose from.

Foot­notes. Col­orado has a 2–0 series lead for the first time since 2014 when it won the first two games of the first-round series against Min­neso­ta. The Avs lost that series in sev­en games. … Col­orado has won three of its four games in Edmon­ton by scor­ing the game-win­ner with­in the last sev­en min­utes of reg­u­la­tion. … MacK­in­non and Nazem Kadri have points in all five play­off games, the first Avalanche play­ers to start a play­off sea­son with a point streak of at least four games since 2003-04. … Avs defense­man Erik John­son had five blocked shots Fri­day, tying his play­off career-high (May 8, 2019 at San Jose).