http2 requests are stalled in chrome - google-chrome

I have a Node.js web server that uses express and spdy to serve RESTful API endpoints over http2. As you can see from the screenshot attached, some of my requests are getting stalled from 15 to 20 seconds and it only happens in Chrome.
The entire reason we upgraded to http2 was so that we didn't have to do domain sharding to avoid the queuing wait times. Is there any way I can overcome this? I also have the HTTP2_SESSION logs from Chrome's network-internals tool if those would be helpful.
Here's the screenshot of the absurd amount of stalled time, which is accounting for 80% of our total time:
EDIT:
The npm package is called SPDY. It still uses HTTP/2. I couldn't get Node.js' native http2 module working with express.
EDIT 2:
Paste bin link to the http2 session logs

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