Don’t care about the loss, but that’s another game of the refs proving they’re stupid and incompetent, and the Avs showing their shooting accuracy is dogshit.
Might as well start with he dummies in stripes first. For some reason they always think they’re calling the game even by letting the trailing team get away with blatant penalties, while not giving the leading team any power plays. By giving them 2.5 periods of getting away with cheating, it allows them to come back and tie the game, and eventually win, when the score might have been higher if they called the peanlties they took.
These aren’t iffy calls either. Flame player grabs Makar with his free hand and pulls him to the ice on the backcheck. Cody Beach watches Klapka crash into Wedgewood without being touched and refuses to call a penalty. Cody Beach also called that soft cross check on Lindgren that led to the 2-1 goal that changed the momentum. Cody Beach also watched Makar get punched in the face by Coleman and didn’t call a penalty either, the outside ref did.
Cody Beach was also the guy that changed the momentum in the Blues game calling that weak flop by Sundqvist in a 1-1 game in the third. Cody Beach also called MacKinnon a few minutes later for tripping from just a few feet away when Faksa tripped himself. Cody Beach also watched Lindgren get elbowed in the head without calling anything after the Blues had three power plays in the third. Notice a pattern here? How does this guy have a job in the NHL when he consistently sucks so bad?
Liked the defensive effort from the Avs for most of the game, but once again they cause their own problems by not being able to run up the score the way they should, when they're controlling the game.
Would like to see more Nelson when he’s not scoring. Love his goal scoring ability, but passing and puck handling haven’t always been where they needed to be to sustain O zone time. Hopefully he can improve in these areas.
Lehky and Val have been too quiet lately. Not that big a deal as long as they turn it back on for the playoffs, but they need to do so. Didn't like Lindgren's game either.
I’ve been harping on the Avs shooting accuracy for a long time, but they desperately need to work on their this before the playoffs. MacKinon and Makar specifically hit too many posts and miss the net too often.
Liles said MacK and Cale are 1 and 2 in hit posts this year and Mikko is 3rd. That’s not a fluke. I think they just work so hard to hound pucks, backcheck hard, and create scoring chances that sometimes I think they just let up when they go to shoot instead of bearing down on their shots.
It’s causing the new guys problems too. Typifying the problem, friggin Klapka snipes a shot in the circle, and then on the next shift Nelson gets the puck wide open in the circle himself and shoots it wide. Work on your shots before the playoffs guys please!