GDT: Avalanche at Stars (Game 5): Do We Really Have To?

Who plays their final game for the Avalanche tonight?

  • Andrew Cogliano

    Votes: 57 62.6%
  • Ross Colton

    Votes: 9 9.9%
  • Jonathan Drouin

    Votes: 13 14.3%
  • Brandon Duhaime

    Votes: 44 48.4%
  • Joel Kiviranta

    Votes: 25 27.5%
  • Nikolai Kovalenko

    Votes: 7 7.7%
  • Artturi Lehkonen

    Votes: 7 7.7%
  • Casey Mittelstadt

    Votes: 9 9.9%
  • player not found

    Votes: 27 29.7%
  • Zach Parise

    Votes: 63 69.2%
  • Mikko Rantanen

    Votes: 20 22.0%
  • Yakov Trenin

    Votes: 41 45.1%
  • Miles Wood

    Votes: 7 7.7%
  • Samuel Girard

    Votes: 9 9.9%
  • Jack Johnson

    Votes: 55 60.4%
  • Caleb Jones

    Votes: 31 34.1%
  • Josh Manson

    Votes: 10 11.0%
  • Sean Walker

    Votes: 47 51.6%
  • Alexandar Georgiev

    Votes: 20 22.0%

  • Total voters
    91
  • Poll closed .

dahrougem2

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Very small.

With their season on the line that's probably the best the Avs can play against the Stars. Doubt the Stars played their best game though.
We know the Avs can obviously still play better than what they showed tonight.

They finally started winning battles and chances opened up in the middle of the ice.

Dallas isn't some behemoth. They can be beat. There's a reason they had to go 7 games against Vegas when Oettinger was playing out of his mind.

Combine that with an injured Hintz, a clearly not 100% Tanev, and now Seguin going off with what looked like an injury and all of a sudden Dallas is losing regular bodies.
 

S E P H

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Mar 5, 2010
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How did we look in the first two periods? I came at the start of the third and I thought we didn't look too bad. Defensively though, this team still scares me to death where any Dallas shot looks like it could go in.
 

wayninja

Win it for Val
Mar 24, 2017
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We know the Avs can obviously still play better than what they showed tonight.

They finally started winning battles and chances opened up in the middle of the ice.

Dallas isn't some behemoth. They can be beat. There's a reason they had to go 7 games against Vegas when Oettinger was playing out of his mind.

Combine that with an injured Hintz, a clearly not 100% Tanev, and now Seguin going off with what looked like an injury and all of a sudden Dallas is losing regular bodies.

Dallas gets in a team like the Avs' head with their huge, smothering style. That sets up everything they do from there.

I know avs are trying to "stay calm", but that isn't really the right strategy as you just get strangled slower. Avs need to be intense and ramp up the intensity in battles like they did tonight and in game 1. That opens things up and sets up avs for chances.
 

TheGrimReaper

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stars in 5
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dahrougem2

Registered User
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Edmonton, Alberta
Dallas gets in a team like the Avs' head with their huge, smothering style. That sets up everything they do from there.

I know avs are trying to "stay calm", but that isn't really the right strategy as you just get strangled slower. Avs need to be intense and ramp up the intensity in battles like they did tonight and in game 1. That opens things up and sets up avs for chances.
Dallas isn't really huge, though. They just play INSANELY defensive then turn on the counter attack. They hardly throw hits anymore. If not for Benn they'd have less than 10 hits a night in all likelihood.

It's the Avs who have to continue playing big, physical hockey. Chances were created tonight because Stars defensemen felt the pressure and wanted nothing to do with it - Tanev especially. Even Heiskanen when he goes back is looking over his shoulder constantly and if there's anyone, he's rimming the puck. More often than not the Avs are stealing it or stopping Dallas wingers on the boards.

It has to continue. The Avs have to forecheck like hounds and punish, punish, punish.
 

StLAvsFan

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Feb 8, 2015
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Drouin Lehk MacK is a line that can actually retrieve the puck.

Mittelstadt with goals two games in a row.

Some positives. But Toews is obviously concussed and scared. And they're going hard after Makar trying to pick the head.

Someone should see if Heskainens head is impervious to elbows.
Exactly. Everyone's talking about running Benn's ass, when in reality, it should be Heiskanen the Avs target every chance they get. Mash him!
 
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