GDT: Avalanche @ Blues 2/23/25 4:00PM MNT (Emergency GDT) Still feeling Blue about yesterday.

[expatriatedtexan]

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It's so damn easy to tell fake images like this.

You've got the week starting on the wrong day in the calendar. Heck...you actually took weekeds away from everyone... You MONSTER!!

 

[dahrougem2]

This is why I have a bit of a hard time being on the "ship out Colton" train. When he was in Tampa is was quite productive AND he was menace to play against - I remember hating his guts when we played them in the finals because he was just an annoying, physical player. With the Avs he's probably too afraid to hit someone because Bednar's philosophy is to play honest, and check-first hockey.

Personally I hate players like Colton who struggle to think the game. You can see a clear difference between Drury and Colton/Wood. Two dummies skating around aimlessly and a guy down the middle trying to figure out how to prevent their f*** ups.

That said, Colton and Wood should be all out crash and bangers producing SOMETHING for us. Not neutered completely. Something is off.

 

[expatriatedtexan]

Personally I hate players like Colton who struggle to think the game. You can see a clear difference between Drury and Colton/Wood. Two dummies skating around aimlessly and a guy down the middle trying to figure out how to prevent their f*** ups.

That said, Colton and Wood should be all out crash and bangers producing SOMETHING for us. Not neutered completely. Something is off.

Last season when they were at their best with LOC they were straight trucking north-south and if something was in their way, the laws of phyisics would sort it out. It just seems that Bednar, in general, discourages physicality. I think he belives it slows the pace too much.

 

[ABasin]

Personally I hate players like Colton who struggle to think the game. You can see a clear difference between Drury and Colton/Wood. Two dummies skating around aimlessly and a guy down the middle trying to figure out how to prevent their f*** ups.

That said, Colton and Wood should be all out crash and bangers producing SOMETHING for us. Not neutered completely. Something is off.

This.

There’s something fundamentally wrong with the team.

Mittelstadt and Colton started the season very nicely, and are currently shells of their former selves.

Wood was never great, but he barely resembles the player NJ had 18 months ago.

O’Connor - zero points in last 13 games.

We could go on and on. The team is broken somewhere deep within.

Never thought I’d see the day that I miss Keifer Sherwood.

P.S. I have a feeling that the moment the Avs trade Mittelstadt or Colton, they’re gonna turn on and look pretty good for their new team.

 

[Cousin Eddie]

I am not yet on the Fire Bednar train but if it was to happen Carle would be my pick. It would have to be next season though.

Yeah if Bednar leaves this is who I expect to be next.

 

[AvsMakar08]

I wouldn't mind at all if the guy resigned, but that's not happening.

The coach will go first. GMs have a lot more rope.

CMac did a lot of good trades for this team but he also did a couple of risky trades. Trading our next future Captain, top trading chip is what can get a GM fired. Hopefully Sakic is monitoring this situation.

 

[sethro109]

It's so damn easy to tell fake images like this.

You've got the week starting on the wrong day in the calendar. Heck...you actually took weekeds away from everyone... You MONSTER!!

In the future, there are no weekends. There is only Zuul.

 

[nightonthesun]

*gazing longingly at the team’s record with Nuke in the lineup*

 

[expatriatedtexan]

In the future, there are no weekends. There is only Zuul.

 

[CobraAcesS]

lol

You had the same fkn thought I did.

4D Chess joke @Cousin Eddie

 

[Cousin Eddie]

You had the same fkn thought I did.

4D Chess joke @Cousin Eddie

I wish I was clever enough to think of that lol. I discovered it when everyone else did

 

[expatriatedtexan]

Mittelstadt likes to create offense from pull ups, full stops and pivots. He’s really good in those situations. He shields the puck with his body and waits for a lane to open up to make a pass and he’s f***ing phenomenal at it.

Problem with that is that Middelstadt is slow and weak. When a guy like Mackinnon for example is at a standstill, he can decide to change that, move his feet and start again. Mittelstadt can’t. Once teams see video on this he’s very easy to defend. You simply stay on, play the body and 9 times out of 10 the puck will be yours because he truly is one of the weakest players to ever play in the league.

I don’t think Mittelstadt forgot how to play hockey. I just think he’s very easy to play against and once teams figure that out he doesn’t have much else he can do.

He was also on the top PP early in the year because of Lehky and Drouin missing. That helped a little.

Didn't register.

lol

Didn't register.

You had the same fkn thought I did.

4D Chess joke @Cousin Eddie

Huh, did I miss something?

I wish I was clever enough to think of that lol. I discovered it when everyone else did

OMFG! I've been hit by a joke grenade. Freaking @The Kingslayer, pulled the pin and launched the thing at little after 9am my time and I'm just getting hit by the shrapnel at 4pm.