Bednar has to be fired right?

[Dr Pepper]

Maybe Bednar let him know that his face is on a ton of video in Canadian court right now from the phones of guys like Batherson and Hart.

Oh I'm sure Cale's well aware of that. Might very well be the reason why he struggled so much in this series, unless the Avs have come out and said he was dealing with cracked ribs or something.

 

[ffh]

not cutting his hair in forever is reason enough to fire him.

 

[shadow1]

It's so weird to see the Sunday morning quarterbacking on McFarlands's team. Everyone loved what he had done with the team up until the end of the game last night. The team blew it. DeBoer put an idea in the officials head after game 6. Mikko played well. Even with injuries Dallas is a good team. The Avs should have won, they had multiple opportunities to do so. I really don't see it as McFarland's folly, or Bednar's. I'd do the Mikko trade again.

MacFarland did an in-season rebuild (10 trades), including trading a franchise icon, and none of the new guys did anything.

Bigger picture, he started with Kadri and Compher. Instead of finding a way to keep those two, he's spent three years and an ungodly amount of assets to end up with Coyle and Nelson (UFA).

This loss is on MacFarland. The sting will go away quicker if Kroenke/Sakic let him go this off-season. I do not expect that, sadly.

 

[Fatass]

MacFarland did an in-season rebuild (10 trades), including trading a franchise icon, and none of the new guys did anything.

Bigger picture, he started with Kadri and Compher. Instead of finding a way to keep those two, he's spent three years and an ungodly amount of assets to end up with Coyle and Nelson (UFA).

This loss is on MacFarland. The sting will go away quicker if Kroenke/Sakic let him go this off-season. I do not expect that, sadly.

With a move as big as Rantanen wouldn’t upper management and ownership need to be involved? Maybe not in the return for Rantanen, but for sure in if he’s traded?

 

[Joe Sakic]

Dallas: *plays the entire series missing their 2 best players*

*Wins*

For the first time ever, I am hoping Bednar is let go. Too few adjustments made, and the adjustments he did make were totally bizarre.

Pairing Malinski - Girard and then Lindgren - Manson together after game 2 was a poor move imo. Those D pairings are too 1 dimensional for a 7 game series. Taking EJ out after game 2 and never playing him again was a mistake, I do think his size and experience could have helped against this Dallas team, especially on the road when they controlled the match-ups.

I don't think we saw any adjustments to the top-6 or the PP. Game 3 0/6 on the PP (1 goal loss). Game 7 0/3 on the PP (1 goal loss). Make no mistake about it, if we had our PP figured out we would have won this series imo. Not trying to take a shot at Dallas here, just my opinion on that matter.

We never even tried putting Necas & Nelson on the same line the entire series, and they showed some brilliance towards the end of the regular season. I would have just liked us to TRY some different things. I am dissapointed in the lack of adjustments Bednar was willing to make.

 

[shadow1]

With a move as big as Rantanen wouldn’t upper management and ownership need to be involved? Maybe not in the return for Rantanen, but for sure in if he’s traded?

I'm sure they were, but I believe the blame falls on the GM who organized the trade. To clarify my comment, I'm not only talking about the Rantanen trade. It's the overall unsuccessfulness and instability of MacFarland's numerous moves.

I mentioned he made 10 in-season trades this year. Last year was similar, he made 8. That included trading Byram and a 1st round pick (to dump Ryan Johansen) to try to address the 2C hole with Mittelstadt. He somehow spent even more this year trying to fix that mess.

I tried to visualize the chaos below.

The TLDR version (basically); Byram, Rantanen, Ritchie, 1st, 1st, 2nd, 2nd <> Blackwood, Coyle, Drury, Necas, Wedgewood.

	Out	In
2024​	F Cal Burke F Ryan Johansen F Kurtis MacDermid F Ben Meyers F Tomas Tatar D Bowen Byram D Jeremy Hanzel 2025 1st [COL] 2025 3rd [COL] 2026 3rd [COL]	F Zakhar Bardakov F Brandon Duhaime (left via UFA) F Casey Mittelstadt (left via trade) F Yakov Trenin (left via UFA) D Caleb Jones (left via UFA) D Graham Sward (non-tendered) D Sean Walker (left via UFA) 2024 5th [ANA] 2024 5th [SEA] 2024 7th [NSH] 2026 5th [PHI]
2025​	F Nikolai Kovalenko F Casey Mittelstadt F Ondrej Pavel F Jusso Parssinen* F Mikko Rantanen F Calum Ritchie F Givani Smith* F William Zellers D Erik Brannstrom D Calvin de Haan D Oliver Kylington G Justus Annunen G Alexander Georgiev 2025 2nd [CAR]* 2025 2nd [NYR] 2025 4th [VAN]* 2025 5th [COL] 2025 6th [COL] 2026 1st [COL] 2026 2nd [COL] 2027 3rd [COL]	F Charlie Coyle F Jack Drury F William Dufour F Martin Necas F Brock Nelson (pending UFA) F Jusso Parssinen (left via trade) F Givani Smith (left via trade) F Jimmy Vesey (pending UFA) D Hank Kempf D Erik Johnson (pending UFA) D Ryan Lindgren (pending UFA) D Tucker Poolman (pending UFA) G MacKenzie Blackwood G Scott Wedgwood 2025 2nd [CAR] (left via trade) 2025 4th [VAN] (left via trade) 2026 4th [CAR] 2026 5th [BOS] 2026 7th [NYR] 2027 5th [SJ]

 

[landy]

I want to know how much Sakic was involved with these moves. Ive had nghtmares about poor roster management. MacFarland might be the one to be held accountbale. Bednars only fault is not splitting up Necas/Nate.

 

[Freaky Styley]

MacFarland isn't without his faults and mistakes but he put together arguably the best team on paper in the West. The players didn't execute, that falls on the coach (and the players).

Avs arguably don't even get to 7 games with Mikko on the team. You don't have a 2C or a defense upgrade like Lindgren, and they are better positioned for the future.

Obviously it's a bad look in the moment and a hot take, but even in this series Mikko proved he only shows up in 20% of the games. If it's the right 20% that's all people will remember. We will see if he can continue this momentum. A lot easier to get up for a revenge series like this. And people act like the Avs traded Mikko to the Stars. The situation that played out couldn't have been predicted.

 

[StewieP19]

Colorado need a retool. Does Mcfarlane is the right person to do it ??? That's my biggest question.
For coaching situation i will not be surprise if Bednar lose his job. He's here since long time and maybe a change can be good for both side

 

[FerrisRox]

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

You want to blame the coach?

You think Bednar told them to go out there and cough up the lead?

You can't understand how a coaching staff could "survive" this?

 

[Satoru Gojo]

Friedman says he would be shocked if he were let go

 

[avsfan2189]

What coaching error cost Colorado the series?

every pk and pp the avs had

 

[dmac7719]

You can blame MacFarland for the stars suddenly having a hell of fame level forward that always rises to the occasion though.

And let's be real - the Stars had nothing going until Rantanen put the team on his back in the third.

I don't see how you put that on Bednar at all.

Literally Rantanen was in on all of the stars last 10 goals in the series.

Rantanen always rises to the the equation?

If Rantanen always rose to the equation he wouldn't have been traded and would have been given the Drai money that multiple people were reporting that his agent was seeking.

That Rantanen that showed up over the back half of the back half of the series hasn't been seen in Colorado since they won the cup. Anyways, Rantanen isn't the reason the Avs lost the series.

 

[dmac7719]

Pairing Malinski - Girard and then Lindgren - Manson together after game 2 was a poor move imo. Those D pairings are too 1 dimensional for a 7 game series. Taking EJ out after game 2 and never playing him again was a mistake, I do think his size and experience could have helped against this Dallas team, especially on the road when they controlled the match-ups.

EJ was f***in horrible in those two games. The mistake was playing him those 2 games over Malinski, who played great the entire series.

 

[GreatSaveLuongo]

Makar was totally invisible, Dogg showed up though

 

[Avs2022]

Dallas: *plays the entire series missing their 2 best players*

*Wins*

For the first time ever, I am hoping Bednar is let go. Too few adjustments made, and the adjustments he did make were totally bizarre.

Pairing Malinski - Girard and then Lindgren - Manson together after game 2 was a poor move imo. Those D pairings are too 1 dimensional for a 7 game series. Taking EJ out after game 2 and never playing him again was a mistake, I do think his size and experience could have helped against this Dallas team, especially on the road when they controlled the match-ups.

I don't think we saw any adjustments to the top-6 or the PP. Game 3 0/6 on the PP (1 goal loss). Game 7 0/3 on the PP (1 goal loss). Make no mistake about it, if we had our PP figured out we would have won this series imo. Not trying to take a shot at Dallas here, just my opinion on that matter.

We never even tried putting Necas & Nelson on the same line the entire series, and they showed some brilliance towards the end of the regular season. I would have just liked us to TRY some different things. I am dissapointed in the lack of adjustments Bednar was willing to make.

Not putting Necas and Nelson together was mind boggling. I hope he gets fired for that alone with these two together made our 2nd line seems dangerous on many nights .

 

[Joe Sakic]

EJ was f***in horrible in those two games. The mistake was playing him those 2 games over Malinski, who played great the entire series.

Could be. I really didn’t think EJ was that bad, far from being terrible. I am wondering if his size and experience would have worked better against a big experienced team like Dallas. Obviously we’ll never know but I would have liked seeing some more changes to our lines, with or without EJ being included.

Malinski just always leaves me wanting more. To me he seems like a small, shifty, quick offensive defenseman but he never puts up many points.

 

[kingsholygrail]

This was the titanic series of the 1st round and it went to game 7 down to the wire. Someone was coming out of this looking bad no matter what because both teams were supposed to go deep.

 

[OneSharpMarble]

Rantanen always rises to the the equation?

Maybe he should multiply his effort and the fanbase wouldn't be so divided on his performance. Just thought I'd add this.

 

[iCanada]

Maybe he should multiply his effort and the fanbase wouldn't be so divided on his performance. Just thought I'd add this.

I think after round 1 this year you can say those that thought Rantanen would be addition by subtraction failed to compute.

 

[JianYang]

How can you take any middle aged man with that hairdo seriously?

 

[Stevonidas]

The Avs led the Stars in nearly every statistical category for the majority of this series. Maybe try getting rid of players who take stupid penalties in important games (Drury).

Coaching isn’t their problem. But as a Stars fan, feel free to blow it all up.