Post-Game Talk: Avalanche

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Ugly game all in all but Georgiev did a great job holding the fort and allowing us to get back in it. The attack was a shambles all game and the defense was porous, which I can understand considering we were trying to come from behind throughout. Not to mention, the officiating heavily tilted the ice toward the anointed ones. I’ll consider it a learning experience and expect a huge response tomorrow.
 
Really gotta hope they continue to play as good as they do against the bad teams and stack those wins against them to get into the playoffs. This team really needs a good kick in the balls in the playoffs to figure out what they need to do to take that next step...because this isn't it. The first and third lines need to get blown up. If you can't trust your third line for more than 10 secs at a time out there then make some changes so that you can have a third line that is actually getting into the flow of the game. Sit someone, call someone up, switch players around but do something to find a way to get a third line you can play out there.

The Mika line is completely ineffective at 5v5. Kreider and Mika don't know what to do when Kakko has possession of the puck. They stand around like idiots in coverage hoping that somehow the puck will get to them. Honestly, just put Panarin/Mika/Strome together and let the rest of the team figure it out. Mika can't play the role of a true center so you have to give him Panarin. I don't want any of the young guys playing with that trio because the rest of the lineup needs a completely different identity to them. Call Barron up and give him a shot at 2c or 3c. Feed these guys minutes and see what happens. The Panarin line should be enough to carry us against the bad teams and if we somehow can't beat the bad teams after these changes then Drury has a lot of work to do.
 
So far tonight I have seen Fox sucks, Panarin sucks, Strome sucks, trade Laf or send him down, trade Mika, trade Lindgren, fire Chytil into the sun, Kakko is a bust, Gallant can't coach. They have lost 3 of 4 to really hot teams and the rats are starting to jump off the ship already. Wow. The Flames have lost 4 in a row, Oilers have lost 6 in a row, Florida got beat 8-2 by Ottawa. Shit happens in an 82 game season.
 
The last handful of games, the team has looked more like last year's version. No urgency, no speed, no precision. When the other team has the puck, we can't take it away, and when we have the puck, it looks like a game of hot potato. Nobody seems to be on the same page anymore. Not sure what's going on, but they need a bit of a wake up call.

And frankly, I would split up Strome and Panarin. It's great that they have chemistry. It's great that they are BFFs. But it's time to care more about their team than their bromance, and splitting them up could get other lines going.

Also, Kakko, Laf, Chytil, and Gaut need to start getting a minimum of 15 minutes per game. They need minutes to develop and right now, a slew of 4th liners are playing more per game. We're going nowhere now or in the future if we can't develop at least two of those four guys into difference makers. Either give them those minutes or send them to the AHL with a list of things to work on.
 
So far tonight I have seen Fox sucks, Panarin sucks, Strome sucks, trade Laf or send him down, trade Mika, trade Lindgren, fire Chytil into the sun, Kakko is a bust, Gallant can't coach. They have lost 3 of 4 to really hot teams and the rats are starting to jump off the ship already. Wow. The Flames have lost 4 in a row, Oilers have lost 6 in a row, Florida got beat 8-2 by Ottawa. Shit happens in an 82 game season.
This "they were hot teams" is a ludicrous excuse. What does that mean, that they can never lose once they are "hot"? That designation is meaningless.

The real truth is that hot or not the Rangers cannot beat teams like the Avalanche and have a losing record against the better teams in this league. If that's not concerning to you then you are just fooling yourself into thinking everything is fine. It isn't.

The Avs being a "hot" team is not why they won tonight. They won because they are better than the Rangers and played as such.
 
So far tonight I have seen Fox sucks, Panarin sucks, Strome sucks, trade Laf or send him down, trade Mika, trade Lindgren, fire Chytil into the sun, Kakko is a bust, Gallant can't coach. They have lost 3 of 4 to really hot teams and the rats are starting to jump off the ship already. Wow. The Flames have lost 4 in a row, Oilers have lost 6 in a row, Florida got beat 8-2 by Ottawa. Shit happens in an 82 game season.

I think the Fox and Panarin takes are that they had shitty games and are great players. I guess I took it one step further where I questioned the fact that a step up in competition made him look pedestrian but I don't think Fox and Panarin suck. This Mika sucks, but I feel like he's getting chances lately he's just not converting. He's not getting as many chances as he used to though, but he's not completely invisible either.
 
When it comes to Kakko's minutes, it shouldn't even be about feeding him more minutes because he needs to develop, he should be getting more minutes because he's the only forward other than Panarin that does anything remotely interesting at 5v5.

Zibanejad nothing.
Kreider nothing.
Chytil nothing.
Laf nothing.
Strome at 5v5 doesn't count because he's a Panarin leetch.
Hunt doesn't count because his only job is to clean up Panarin and Strome's messes.
Goodrow nothing.
Rooney nothing.
 
I'll add another thing-- if I were coaching this group, sitting on your ass looking at the ref with your hands in the air begging for a call while the play is still going on down the ice? Instant benching for the rest of the game. I'm tired of seeing it, and I see it FAR more from this team than I do from others. During a game, you only worry about what you can control. Anything else is a distraction.
 
I think the Fox and Panarin takes are that they had shitty games and are great players. I guess I took it one step further where I questioned the fact that a step up in competition made him look pedestrian but I don't think Fox and Panarin suck. This Mika sucks, but I feel like he's getting chances lately he's just not converting. He's not getting as many chances as he used to though, but he's not completely invisible either.

I just laugh at the overreactions in every GDT. It's worse this year than it has ever been and I don't understand why when you look at the standings. This team was never going to win at a 125 point pace and regression was always going to happen as I have said many times. We have a good team with a good coach that is far from perfect and is still a work in progress. We just played the hottest team in the league and lost twice. They are a better team. So what? The team is going to struggle at times. It doesn't mean every time it happens we have to blow things up. It's like some guys have never watched an 82 game hockey season before.
 
I just laugh at the overreactions in every GDT. It's worse this year than it has ever been and I don't understand why when you look at the standings. This team was never going to win at a 125 point pace and regression was always going to happen as I have said many times. We have a good team with a good coach that is far from perfect and is still a work in progress. We just played the hottest team in the league and lost twice. They are a better team. So what? The team is going to struggle at times. It doesn't mean every time it happens we have to blow things up. It's like some guys have never watched an 82 game hockey season before.
There's a difference between "struggles at times" and "struggles every time they play a good team"
 
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I just laugh at the overreactions in every GDT. It's worse this year than it has ever been and I don't understand why when you look at the standings. This team was never going to win at a 125 point pace and regression was always going to happen as I have said many times. We have a good team with a good coach that is far from perfect and is still a work in progress. We just played the hottest team in the league and lost twice. They are a better team. So what? The team is going to struggle at times. It doesn't mean every time it happens we have to blow things up. It's like some guys have never watched an 82 game hockey season before.

I knew we'd have a rough patch, just was looking forward to the Fox vs. Makar showdown and disappointed at the result. All things considered an almost 3-2 loss to this team in their barn isn't bad. We should have tied it too, come on Kreider!
 
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I knew we'd have a rough patch, just was looking forward to the Fox vs. Makar showdown and disappointed at the result. All things considered an almost 3-2 loss to this team in their barn isn't bad. We should have tied it too, come on Kreider!

It's not just this game it's every game with some people, not you. I just don't know what people are expecting. This board has always had it's share of whining and moronic hot takes but this year is the worst it has ever been and yet we have a good record all things considered.
 
It's not just this game it's every game with some people, not you. I just don't know what people are expecting. This board has always had it's share of whining and moronic hot takes but this year is the worst it has ever been and yet we have a good record all things considered.
Should rename this board HockeysAnxiety
 
A couple of years ago, I always wondered who this McKinnon was. He was always up there with the leaders in scoring. 97, 99 and 93 pts before the pandemic hit. And maybe he didn't play well against us, that I didn't notice him much. But after these two games,.. Geez is he great. When he is stick handling the puck,... it's like everyone else is playing in slow mo. And to take a hit like Trouba landed, and still return back into the game, this guy is ultra tough. He has got to be one of the top five players in the game. And he is only 26 years old.

And who is this Valeri Nichushkin? This beast scores two very nice goals? Where did they get this guy? From Guardians of the Galaxy? He looks like the brother of Thanos.
 
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