Gudas plays high end 3rd pairing minutes low end second pairing and is pretty sheltered. Also he is 31, not like he is about to breakup. I wouldn’t mind adding him but that means Bouchard is suddenly a shutdown top pairing d or we are moving him or Ceci out.
It’s a stretch cause by all accounts he wants to play for a few more years. He went to the conference finals this year, he is going to think he got tons more in the tank.
And he feigned injury afterward to make it seem like he was the victim.
In fairness a spectacular play by Lehkonen, who is no stranger to making those kinds of monumental game and series winning plays around the net. Was a perfect deflection, and then potting the rebound. We never get a goal like that from the punters we've brought in. Lehkonen is quality, thats the difference. I mentioned before Helm was also valuable all series, and there he was late in game OWNING Connor McDavid on the boards, getting to the net, and almost getting the winning goal. We just don't have the bottom players that Holland has brought in making those kind of plays. Target the right help and maybe we do. Colorado got better. Other than Kane rental we didn't.
To be fair to Nurse, he had a torn hip flexor and it most likely needs surgery. He can't play 25+ minutes a night being A+ with an injury like that.
Pretty sure coach helped us even make the playoffs when we looked dead in the water 4 months ago. You could use some perspective on how much worse this season could've ended.
I agree , I liked woodcroft, he did an incredible job to save the season but IMO completely washed that away om the avs series. With some real heavy hitters available on the coaches list right now it will be interesting to see what happens
Yeah, that was a bloody football level fake out injury. From their captain, no less. What a f***ing douchebag.
He might think that now, but when he’s in the recovery and training phase of the offseason things might change. He just might decide it’s not worth the trouble for 1M bucks (which isn’t that much to him).
We lost the series behind our own net losing almost every puck battle. When we did get the puck we blindly threw it along the boards and the Avs were waiting.
Kulak has been relatively huge for us though. He seemed to settle down Barrie and they were our best pairing all playoffs.
Coaches like any player need to learn to win as well. Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water Woody was the only reason we made it this far to begin with. He did what he did with the least amount of practices of any coach ever. Remember when he took over we had to play pretty much every second night for the remainder of the season and the playoffs. We never really saw his full systems implemented. If people want to throw blame throw it and the terrible league bias or the sub par goaltending. Hell even blame Nurse or whatever but the coaching is not an issue.
Agreed, they’ve for sure paid their dues and deserve to be in the final. However I really hope we get a chance at a rematch where we squash them! Haha. Also you know the pain of this defeat with make us even more hungry next year. Especially Mcdrai
Can we find someone who isn’t close to a retirement home maybe? Maybe a guy in his late 20s not mid to late 30s?
