Blackwood Traded to Colorado

[Avs_19]

Can't believe the time has come where we never have to watch Georgiev in an Avs jersey again.

 

[Colorado Avalanche]

Ivan made Kovy expendable. Also I bet a Kiviranta extension is coming.

Kivi EARNED IT.

 

[dahrougem2]

So in the event the Avs get healthy (I know, I know - someone gotta die) over the next couple of weeks we're looking at:

Drouin - MacKinnon - Rantanen
Lehkonen - Mittelstadt - Nichushkin
Kiviranta - Colton - O'Connor
Kelly - Ivan - Wagner

Toews - Makar
Girard - Manson
De Haan - Malinski

Blackwood
Wedgewood

Avs still need IMO 2 bottom-six forwards and a defenseman to either replace De Haan as a lefty or Malinski as a righty and preferably one that kills penalties and is physical.

Still work to be done. LOC and Kiviranta gotta play 4th line, not 3rd line.

 

[Colorado Avalanche]

Can't believe the time has come where we never have to watch Georgiev in an Avs jersey again.

I have to say, this was probably worth some pick. Maybe not Kovalenko, but pick for sure.

So in the event the Avs get healthy (I know, I know - someone gotta die) over the next couple of weeks we're looking at:

Drouin - MacKinnon - Rantanen
Lehkonen - Mittelstadt - Nichushkin
Kiviranta - Colton - O'Connor
Kelly - Ivan - Wagner

Toews - Makar
Girard - Manson
De Haan - Malinski

Blackwood
Wedgewood

Avs still need IMO 2 bottom-six forwards and a defenseman to either replace De Haan as a lefty or Malinski as a righty and preferably one that kills penalties and is physical.

Still work to be done. LOC and Kiviranta gotta play 4th line, not 3rd line.

Goaltending makes a big difference. Def. like it better. Our goaltenders were mental cases. Now at least we start fresh again. Hah.

 

[the_fan]

NHL network loves the trade for us. They’re really high on Blackwood

 

[henchman21]

People really overrate Kovalenko…

 

[chet1926]

People really overrate Kovalenko…

Agreed.

 

[Colorado Avalanche]

Put it this way. Blackwood is gonna help us win games more than Kovy would. It’s fine, bottom 6 forwards aren’t hard to find but good goalie is

This is def. true.

I don't think Bednar was too fond of Kovy. You can see his icetime just lowering.
He was not solution, at least not in Bedsys eyes.

 

[SirLoinOfCloth]

This hat thing is being blown way out of proportion. Yes, Wedgewood had a shutout. But it was only a 25 shot shutout. It's not like it was 35+. It was a good performance but not an automatic best performance of the night type performance. He had also just had the hat the game before George, spread the love. I doubt that Wedgewood felt slighted at all. He's a team first guy. He was probably happy for Colton. Too much weight is put into that.

 

[MonsterMack]

People really overrate Kovalenko…

It's bizarre

 

[Colorado Avalanche]

This hat thing is being blown way out of proportion. Yes, Wedgewood had a shutout. But it was only a 25 shot shutout. It's not like it was 35+. It was a good performance but not an automatic best performance of the night type performance. He had also just had the hat the game before George, spread the love. I doubt that Wedgewood felt slighted at all. He's a team first guy. He was probably happy for Colton. Too much weight is put into that.

Vs the best team in the NHL or close to it.

He should always get it.

 

[The Abusement Park]

Why say the amount @Bill Peckerskull. Let the folks already pile on that its millions of $ to suit the narrative

I mean in the Avs current cap situation 476k isn’t ideal.

 

[CobraAcesS]

Sharks fan here. I like Blackwood. D left him out to dry far too often. He tends to play better when he sees more rubber. Not ideal numbers when he's only facing 18-25 shots. Don't underestimate his ability to steal games.

Sounds like Varlamov

 

[SirLoinOfCloth]

Vs the best team in the NHL or close to it.

He should always get it.

Who knows what parameters they have set in that lockeroom for who gets it. Everyone is just trying to make something out of nothing. It's a big hat. Guarantee no one in that room cares as much as this place does.

 

[CobraAcesS]

He’s a UFA at season’s end and is already making $2.35m.

If he is good for us, we won’t be able to afford re-signing him.

That depends on if Mikko breaks or not.

 

[EdAVSfan]

This is where we could really use some clarity on the Landeskog situation. We haven’t seen him in weeks so we don’t know if he had a big setback or he’s just working on his own away from any media. It would just be nice to find out if we can use his cap hit or not

We already are using practically his whole cap hit.

 

[Ceremony]

Who knows what parameters they have set in that lockeroom for who gets it. Everyone is just trying to make something out of nothing. It's a big hat. Guarantee no one in that room cares as much as this place does.

*Big Hat, thank you.

 

[TheGrimReaper]

it would seem Christmas has arrived early for The Land of Misfit Avalanche Fans !!

 

[Colorado Avalanche]

Who knows what parameters they have set in that lockeroom for who gets it. Everyone is just trying to make something out of nothing. It's a big hat. Guarantee no one in that room cares as much as this place does.

Yeah you are probably right. They give the hat for other reasons too, not just the result etc.

 

[Gumballhead]

This hat thing is being blown way out of proportion. Yes, Wedgewood had a shutout. But it was only a 25 shot shutout. It's not like it was 35+. It was a good performance but not an automatic best performance of the night type performance. He had also just had the hat the game before George, spread the love. I doubt that Wedgewood felt slighted at all. He's a team first guy. He was probably happy for Colton. Too much weight is put into that.

I think if it's not goalies, then sure. It's that fraternity, there's only two of you usually, and it's the hardest most thankless job. Like catchers in baseball, except you get the blame for a loss way more than a catcher would ever. I've never played hockey, but I played a lot of sports, and that's the feeling I get. You have to support each other and I am sure no skater is going to be mad about getting good goaltending 3 times and the hat being all goalies. It's a silly thing anyway, but it can mean something. Maybe some goalies on here can speak to this better, but it seems like it was not the right thing to do, particularly when Wedgie is new to the room and Georgie was probably not too popular. Maybe Wedgie didn't care at all, maybe he just thought "huh", maybe it bothered him. What ulimately matters now is we don't have to think or worry about any of that bs now.

Who knows what parameters they have set in that lockeroom for who gets it. Everyone is just trying to make something out of nothing. It's a big hat. Guarantee no one in that room cares as much as this place does.

It's just a recent example of Georgie being maybe a dickhead, so yeah we will be talking about it. I didn't hear about it until this thread. If this happened in October then yes it would be silly to bring it up. But it happened last night.

 

[Ceremony]

This is the fastest the Avalanche have ever confirmed the number for a new acquisition.

 

[MacKaRtin]

Now get nail yakupov back and maybe a lockeroom glue guy to keep all that wood together

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[AvsWraith]

People really overrate Kovalenko…

I wouldn't call it overrating him, it's just some of us did not want to lose a roster player given all the injury problems this season. Landy's probably not coming back, Val is one strike away, Drouin probably will go out again before the year is up, etc. And I think it's way too early to just give up on Kovy.

Don't get me wrong, Giev sucks and I'm glad he's gone, but the deal should've been for picks. It's not like Giev had years left on his deal, so a 2nd and 5th would've been fair value.

 

[AVSfan2daMAX]

Last time the Avalanche traded a Kovalenko away for a goalie worked out pretty well.

Good riddance to Georgiev.

 

[Avsfan1921]

People really overrate Kovalenko…

It's bizarre

Yup, happens every trade. Barron, kovalenko, Annunen (lol), even Byram to a degree. Just because a player is younger, and in Byrams case good even, doesn’t mean it wasn’t warranted or even good for the Avs. The Annunen one especially was crazy to watch this forum work itself up.

End of the day, George had to go and no one wanted him and knew the position we were in. And somehow we still weren’t completely bent over, I consider that a huge win.