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Bednar has to be fired right?

Skeksis25 said:
Man, people love acting like firing a coach is an answer. They rarely offer who should be hired instead as a replacement who is guaranteed to do better. In the NHL specially it seems like teams are always looking for the answer basically every two years. Bednar lasted so long. Surely Colorado is better off jumping into the coaching blender instead.
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Out of the major sports over there NHL has the shortest shelf life with coaches.
 
HockeyVirus said:
No Heiskanen, No Robertson alone should have made the Avs the overwhelming favorite.

But blowing a 2 goal lead and losing in regulation in game 7 with 15 minutes left? How does any coaching staff survive this
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Should probably get the facts right, doesn’t seem like you watched the game.

They lost the lead, with less than 4 minutes left, not 15 minutes.

Bedmar should be fine.
 
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Corrupt University said:
Blackwood provided this team with goaltending good enough to win the cup and defiantly this series.
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No he didn’t, but he’s not really the main reason they lost, just one of the reasons.

A big reason is probably this: MacKinnon with 7g, 11pts, next best was 2g, 6pts…that’s not really the bad part necessarily, the real bad part about that is #2 was Logan O’Connor
 
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John Mandalorian said:
And Rantanen is so much superior to Marner.
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Must have gotten an amazing return on trading him then

Golden_Jet said:
Should probably get the facts right, doesn’t seem like you watched the game.

They lost the lead, with less than 4 minutes left, not 15 minutes.

Bedmar should be fine.
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Maybe re-read what I wrote. They were leading 2-0 with 15 minutes left
 
Maybe.

While the game was tied, I was wondering which team, if they lost, might make a trade to make the offseason more interesting, or maybe the Habs can grab someone.

Dallas has far more players teams would be interested in that might be available than Colorado.

Colorado's depth isn't that good.

Martin Necas is so f***ing soft.

Can't really blame Bednar for losing to the better, or at least deeper team.
 
I don't know if Bednar has to go, but it's absolutely fair to say that since the 2022 cup, Colorado has been really disappointing in the playoffs. It looked like the team was about to start a dynasty, and they're 1-3 in playoff series since.
 
My understanding is that Ray Bennett coaches special teams. Based on this, I would say he needs to go. I thought the Avs carried much of the play 5v5, but Dallas was much better on special teams.
 
Not sure I’d blame the coach for Makar playing terrible and for trading Rantanen.
Dallas is a very good team even without Robertson and Heiskanen. No shame in losing to them in a hard fought 7 game series.
 
Tralfamadore said:
Not at all uncommon. Happened to Pittsburgh, Washington and St. Louis as well.
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All those teams won their cups with cores sometimes well on the wrong side of 30. Mack and Makar have been in the middle of their primes.

Somewhat related, but definitely interesting to say the least in seeing the difference in how MacKinnon and Ovi are talked about given they've both made it past the second round once each!
 
mphmiles said:
I don't know if Bednar has to go, but it's absolutely fair to say that since the 2022 cup, Colorado has been really disappointing in the playoffs. It looked like the team was about to start a dynasty, and they're 1-3 in playoff series since.
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They lost Kadri, Burakovsky(not that he's done anything in Seattle), Landeskog, and Kuemper right after that win. Plus Nichushkin has been a will he or won't he be around at any given time.

Same thing happened to the Kings after 2014. Mitchell walked as a UFA, Voynov beat his wife, Richards was already a shell of a hockey player, but it only got worse, and Brown had already forgotten how to score, but it only got worse(which is why Gaborik got a stupid contract, and they had to make the Lucic deal). Then of course Sutter went from great coach to old man real quick.
 
qcal1427 said:
All those teams won their cups with cores sometimes well on the wrong side of 30. Mack and Makar have been in the middle of their primes.

Somewhat related, but definitely interesting to say the least in seeing the difference in how MacKinnon and Ovi are talked about given they've both made it past the second round once each!
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Was and StL, so far, have also been 1 hit wonders. It takes a lot to win one, let alone more than one.

It took the craziest run you will ever see for the Kings to win 2 Cups with the same general group. An 0-3 comeback, three Game 7 wins on the road, and winning every home game in the Final in OT, all in the same playoff tournament. The Kings could've lost any one of those series(although they were up 3-1 against the Hawks) 1,000 different times in 1,000 different ways.
 
He's got 2 years left on his deal. Give him another shot with Landeskog and go from there.

As many have pointed out, if he were to be replaced with whom would it be? Do you take a shot with Quenneville or do you get an unknown (like Bednar was)?
The recently fired list doesn't have any standouts IMO.
 
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Bleedred said:
Absolutely agree. There’s been plenty of starting goalies on cup winning teams with an .892% in the playoffs in the last several decades.
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Anyone can do a quick google search, but did you watch the games? Hintz left wide open in front of the net on the power play, Blackwell wheels past a defender to get a shot off and buried his own rebound in OT, Makar gets outmuscled by Marchment and sequin is wide open in the slot. Dadanov (somehow) outmuscled 2 defenders in front of the net in game 2. Harley drops a defender and and gets a wide open look. Rantanen walks past 3 defenders twice, once in game 6 and game 7 and the series winner, while on the PP, Duchene is literally making eye contact with Johnston and then floats the puck front of the crease with 3 sticks in the area.

What would his SV% be if Colorado could play a full 60 minutes in just half these instances? The oilers have Skinner and Pickard in the net, and can get it done against the kings. The team in front of him just didn't get it done.
 
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