GDT: 2018-19 Training Camp and Preseason Thread

[hawk30]

Why bother having multiple threads around here if every one devolves into the same repetitive discussion?

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

Why bother having multiple threads around here if every one devolves into the same repetitive discussion?

Yeah, why have a discussion about what Girard and Jost are coming into training camp looking like physically, in the training camp thread...


What a stupid idea, right?

 

[S E P H]

Altitude Announces Avalanche 2018-19 Broadcast Schedule

Avs will broadcast two preseason games.

 

[Ararana]

 

[McMetal]

Is Cody Bass a faceoff guy? Otherwise I don't see the point, Toninato is a better option at 4C right now (and I've made clear that I think he needs more seasoning, too).

 

[Cousin Eddie]

Lol Cody Bass. Of course.

I really like Bednar as a coach, but I’m so over recycling all of Bednar/MacFarland’s former favorites.

If we’re going to recycle another team’s rejects, let it be a more successful franchise than Columbus.

 

[henchman21]

Yup... the Avs have a real affinity to getting the Columbus crew all together.

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

Lol Cody Bass. Of course.

I really like Bednar as a coach, but I’m so over recycling all of Bednar/MacFarland’s former favorites.

If we’re going to recycle another team’s rejects, let it be a more successful franchise than Columbus.

Maybe we will get to recycle Seth Jones and Artemi Panarin

 

[Cousin Eddie]

Maybe we will get to recycle Seth Jones and Artemi Panarin

I will change my stance on the entire situation gladly lol.

 

[agentblack]

Well to be fair CLB and their farm system has been doing better than we have the last few years haven’t they?

 

[The Mars Volchenkov]

Cody Bass was garbage in Ottawa, and that was like 7 years ago. How is he still kicking around?

 

[Pokecheque]

KICK HIS ASS CODY BASS

 

[Avs_19]

"I just wanna play for the Avalanche and start the season there. I don't want to play in the AHL again so I'm going to do everything to stay there in Denver."

If he doesn't make the team, do you guys think he's more likely to join Yakupov or Grigorenko?

 

[Foppberg]

I hope he really works his ass off and proves himself as a player for us.

 

[agentblack]

"I just wanna play for the Avalanche and start the season there. I don't want to play in the AHL again so I'm going to do everything to stay there in Denver."

If he doesn't make the team, do you guys think he's more likely to join Yakupov or Grigorenko?

That’s what it sounds like, kinda tanks his value too as an NHL or bust asset

 

[The Mars Volchenkov]

Is it really bad that you have a guy that wants to play in the NHL?

 

[agentblack]

Is it really bad that you have a guy that wants to play in the NHL?

No but lots of guys do , I hope for the best but what if he stinks or Tomato juice is better suited for lineup

 

[chet1926]

Is it really bad that you have a guy that wants to play in the NHL?

Right? I'm already getting sick of everyone giving him no chance to make the team.

I honestly can't blame him for saying that. He has nothing left to prove at the AHL level. If he can't make the Avs I'd go back to Russia as well. At least there he can make some money instead of making peanuts in the AHL again.

 

[LieutenantDangle]

I just don’t see him not making the roster. They inserted him immediately into the lineup after the trade. If not for the injury I have a feeling he would have stuck with the roster through the playoffs. Maybe not start every game but with the team imo

 

[agentblack]

Right? I'm already getting sick of everyone giving him no chance to make the team.

I honestly can't blame him for saying that. He has nothing left to prove at the AHL level. If he can't make the Avs I'd go back to Russia as well. At least there he can make some money instead of making peanuts in the AHL again.

Really, all ive seen is people having him making the team, some even pencil him in top 9
I remain hyper critical because i think alot of the optimism towards Kam is because of the trade.
I think he'll get some pt here and there but by midseason he'll be a ghost

 

[Balthazar]

He has nothing left to prove at the AHL level.

Sometimes you go to the AHL not to prove something there but simply because you're not good enough for the NHL. Are we going to keep him with the AVS even if he's not good enough? Like what we did with Yak last year?

 

[Pokecheque]

That's fine, I hope he enters camp motivated and kills it. There's no need to make the Yak/Grigo/Miro comparisons just yet.

 

[Avs_19]

Sometimes you go to the AHL not to prove something there but simply because you're not good enough for the NHL. Are we going to keep him with the AVS even if he's not good enough? Like what we did with Yak last year?

Only way to find out if he's good enough is if he gets a chance. Not talking about 7 mins/gm on the 4th line either. I bet that's all Kamenev is looking for as well after playing great in the AHL and hearing his own GM say he's an NHL player who fits exactly what they want to do.

 

[S E P H]

Updated the OP with the full training camp roster.

 

[chet1926]

Sometimes you go to the AHL not to prove something there but simply because you're not good enough for the NHL. Are we going to keep him with the AVS even if he's not good enough? Like what we did with Yak last year?

No we shouldn't just give him a spot. He needs to earn it. That being said if he can't earn it this year, it's probably in his best interest to go back to Russia because the NHL is probably or if reach for him at that point.

All he has to do to make the team is beat out guys like Bourque, Toninato, etc. If he can't do that he should just forget about the NHL.