Confirmed with Link: Avs trade Annunen and 2025 6th for Scott Wedgewood (NSH)

[The Pwnerer]

Annunen's career with us failed the moment Bednar quit believing in him and continously kept praising Georgiev inexplicably. This was pure injustice for our guy Justus. I wish him a great career, because we did him no favors.

 

[LOFIN]

The Avs have had good success recently in cutting bait with their own prospects in time when they still held some value. Newhook, Barron, Byram, Jost...

Annunen's career with us failed the moment Bednar quit believing in him and continously kept praising Georgiev inexplicably. This was pure injustice for our guy Justus. I wish him a great career, because we did the him no favors.

While I do agree that the way Bednar talked about him vs Georgiev was suspect, and Bednar didn't really give Justus a chance last year, this year he had his chance to claim the #1 spot. He didn't.

 

[Tommy Shelby]

That was Annunen's best game of his career, I wouldn't jump the gun so soon on him

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

Annunen's career with us failed the moment Bednar quit believing in him and continously kept praising Georgiev inexplicably. This was pure injustice for our guy Justus. I wish him a great career, because we did him no favors.

Fully agree with this. Thought it was so weird that Bednar was so insistent that Georgie was amazing and was their guy, but underplayed Annunen's good games and was overly critical of his bad games. Great way to destroy a guys confidence.

 

[Alienblood]

Annunen's career with us failed the moment Bednar quit believing in him and continously kept praising Georgiev inexplicably. This was pure injustice for our guy Justus. I wish him a great career, because we did him no favors.

Mitch Korn will fix him

Fully agree with this. Thought it was so weird that Bednar was so insistent that Georgie was amazing and was their guy, but underplayed Annunen's good games and was overly critical of his bad games. Great way to destroy a guys confidence.

Annunw
en and Kovalenko gives more evidence that Bednar can't develop young players

 

[shadow1]

I already posted before how blown out of proportion the Bednar favoritism narrative is. If those comments really got to Annunen, which I don't believe for a second, he'll spontaneously combust if he ever has to play under someone like Tortorella.

I'm happy Annunen is doing well. Mitch Korn developed Hutton and Saros and now has a chance to work his magic on Annunen. So far, so good.

But frankly, it's not surprising at all Annunen is doing well. Colorado spaced out his starts last year and he was great. The issues came in when the team needed to lean on him out of necessity, like they had Pavel Francouz in years past. That's what Wedgewood has been able to do. He's appeared in five of the last six games and handled it like a champ.

 

[SirLoinOfCloth]

The issues came in when the team needed to lean on him out of necessity, like they had Pavel Francouz in years past.

This is it. A backup needs to not only be able to pick up the occasional game, but they need to provide some degree of stability in the event the #1 goes down or on a slump. Annunen was good as far as the former is concerned, but he was not reliable in the latter situations. Franky was such an amazing backup to be honest, reliable and a team first guy. I wish no ill-will on Annunen at all, but it was obvious at this point in his career he wasn't reliable enough to do more than pick up a backup's set of games. And with George floundering, we needed (unfairly or not) more from Justus, and he just wasn't giving us that.

 

[The Abusement Park]

Annunen's career with us failed the moment Bednar quit believing in him and continously kept praising Georgiev inexplicably. This was pure injustice for our guy Justus. I wish him a great career, because we did him no favors.

Annunen didn't give Bednar much reason to trust him...? And did not take his chance to claim the #1 spot this year. Maybe Korn gets something out of him in Nashville, but his lack of lateral speed will very likely get exposed the more he plays.

 

[RECKLESS]

For me it's simple.

Justus' career path did not align with what the Avs needed of him.

He might end up being great. And I hope that for him. But it was not with our win now or bust.

Timing is everything.

 

[GirardSpinorama]

I wish Annunen all the best. Its just terrible timing because if we had a solid starter, he would get the chance to develop into a solid back-up.

 

[S E P H]

Annunen's career with us failed the moment Bednar quit believing in him and continously kept praising Georgiev inexplicably. This was pure injustice for our guy Justus. I wish him a great career, because we did him no favors.

100% agree, here. If Annunen becomes something, even as a serviceable backup goaler, it will be entirely Bednar's fault.

 

[Pokecheque]

I will be shocked beyond measure if Annunen becomes anything more than a barely serviceable backup.

 

[Gumballhead]

I hope Annunen has a nice career, it just wasn't happening on a team like the Avs who are built to win now. He was a detriment as a backup and trying to be patient with him as a starter (with Georgiev being most likely a discontented backup and a room problem) was going to have us stuck in the mud when it's getting to the time of the season where you need to pile up some points.

I also have to wonder how genius the Preds really are with goalies, having traded Askarov a while back. I know they had reasons but still, that's not something to totally ignore.

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

 

[Bender]

Paw Patrol mask??