Confirmed with Link: Calum Ritchie signs ELC

[Ararana]

Unless we are going to play him a meaningful amount of games, in a meaningful role, I'd rather they just send him down and save that good contract year for when we need it.

welp:

https://x.com/i/web/status/1839340048128610397

 

[Valushkin]

That PP 2 unit will get solid 5 seconds on power plays

 

[Richard Doll]

I like Miles Wood on the team for some of the intangibles that he brings, but it goes to show we need some guys back if he is riding PP2.

 

[Tommy Shelby]

PP2 more like PP Eww

 

[Ceremony]

Don't worry, the powerplay units will look much better when Landeskog and Nichushkin are back.

 

[Vaslof]

I like Miles Wood on the team for some of the intangibles that he brings, but it goes to show we need some guys back if he is riding PP2.

He's just gonna sit his ass in front of the goalie.

 

[redacted]

He's just gonna sit his ass in front of Ross.

Fixed

 

[expatriatedtexan]

Yeah...PP2 is really missing Byrum.


Or Nuke and Landy.

 

[Pokecheque]

Yeah...PP2 is really missing Byrum.


Or Nuke and Landy.

Was Byram ever all that good on the power play? I honestly don't remember.

 

[Valushkin]

We just need Val and Landy back, then there will be 2 really good PP units.

PP 1
Val-MacK-Mikko
Drouin-Makar

PP2
Landy-Mitts-Lehky
Girard-Toews

 

[The Abusement Park]

Was Byram ever all that good on the power play? I honestly don't remember.

Not really. Granted most of his time there was doing the 3 dmen thing so.

 

[Pokecheque]

Not really. Granted most of his time there was doing the 3 dmen thing so.

He didn't have an elite shot but IMO he has the skill to be an asset on the man-advantage.

I still found it absolutely hilarious that upon his arrival in Buffalo he got visibly frustrated because when they were on the power play, his teammates just stood there without a clue as to what to do.

 

[Ararana]

Was Byram ever all that good on the power play? I honestly don't remember.

The very brief time he got on PP1 he was awesome. On PP2, nothing.

This is probably peak Byram we'll ever see on the Avs. When Makar was injured and that boy went ham on the man advantage and getting #1D time. 1 even strength goal, a goal and an assist on the man advantage.

Not surprising at all to me that he didn't want to play behind Makar.

 

[redacted]

He didn't have an elite shot but IMO he has the skill to be an asset on the man-advantage.

I still found it absolutely hilarious that upon his arrival in Buffalo he got visibly frustrated because when they were on the power play, his teammates just stood there without a clue as to what to do.

The flip side of that is Byrum trying to direct a PP that he has no idea how to operate and the other 4 were dumbfounded that he was trying to do his own thing.

I think Bo has some PP upside to his game, but he doesn't look like a guy who should be a top unit player. Dahlin and Power both look better in that role than Byram has so far. If I was Buffalo though, I'd give Byrum a run prior to Power on the 2nd unit though.

 

[Pokecheque]

The very brief time he got on PP1 he was awesome. On PP2, nothing.

This is probably peak Byram we'll ever see on the Avs. When Makar was injured and that boy went ham on the man advantage and getting #1D time. 1 even strength goal, a goal and an assist on the man advantage.

Not surprising at all to me that he didn't want to play behind Makar.

Ah yes, I remember how royally pissed I was that Bednar threw JTC and Naz out there the same time (it almost always ended in disaster when those two were out there together outside of the '21-22 season) in OT, such a waste of a great effort from Bo. That was a pretty fun game otherwise though.

 

[Ararana]

Ah yes, I remember how royally pissed I was that Bednar threw JTC and Naz out there the same time (it almost always ended in disaster when those two were out there together outside of the '21-22 season) in OT, such a waste of a great effort from Bo. That was a pretty fun game otherwise though.

I'm still mad at Kadri for losing his man and ruining that game for Bo

 

[expatriatedtexan]

Was Byram ever all that good on the power play? I honestly don't remember.

Not really. He showed flashes and he had a lot of mobility. He was better when there weren't 3 dmen on the unit but I don't think he was aggressive enough in driving toward the middle of the ice. He was dangerous as hell when he did it, but he like everyone else on the Avs since '95 overpassed the hell out of the puck.

 

[AllAboutAvs]

He didn't have an elite shot but IMO he has the skill to be an asset on the man-advantage.

I still found it absolutely hilarious that upon his arrival in Buffalo he got visibly frustrated because when they were on the power play, his teammates just stood there without a clue as to what to do.

"Sh*t, I just left a team that were doing just that and I'm stuck with the same sh*t here?"

 

[Balthazar]

Ah yes, I remember how royally pissed I was that Bednar threw JTC and Naz out there the same time (it almost always ended in disaster when those two were out there together outside of the '21-22 season) in OT, such a waste of a great effort from Bo. That was a pretty fun game otherwise though.

I HATED Kadri in OT. Dude would constantly take low % shots and give the puck away. No wonder we sucked that much in OT in that era.

 

[Foppa2118]

The very brief time he got on PP1 he was awesome. On PP2, nothing.

This is probably peak Byram we'll ever see on the Avs. When Makar was injured and that boy went ham on the man advantage and getting #1D time. 1 even strength goal, a goal and an assist on the man advantage.

Not surprising at all to me that he didn't want to play behind Makar.

People only remember how he looked getting 15 seconds on PP2 playing wing on the halfwall. And that was a bigger role than he was playing before, which was essentially nothing.

When he ran PP1 with Makar out he was very good. Very clearly better than Toews or Girard ever looked IMO. Good at distributing the puck as a QB, good at getting wrist shots on net through traffic, good at sneaking down to the circle for dangerous shots, and good at one timers.

He was good at the point on all formats of the PP too. 5 on 4, 6 on 5 like the last two goals in the video you posted, and 4 on 3 like this one with him and Makar at the point, which was a dangerous combo.

 

[Pokecheque]

I HATED Kadri in OT. Dude would constantly take low % shots and give the puck away. No wonder we sucked that much in OT in that era.

Took Bednar a looooooooooooong time to figure out how to get the the team to play properly in OT.

 

[Foppa2118]

Took Bednar a looooooooooooong time to figure out how to get the the team to play properly in OT.

My suspicion back then was that they rarely practiced it. Then they all of a sudden got pretty good at it with basically the same personnel.

Same with the 5 on 3. I think Bedsy really focused most of his time on the 5 on 5 system for the first few years or so, and some of the speciality situations suffered a bit.

 

[AllAboutAvs]

Took Bednar a looooooooooooong time to figure out how to get the the team to play properly in OT.

If you are talking about how impatient they were I am not so sure, in fact I am convinced it was not Bednar. It is very hard to convince a guy like Nate to be patient with the puck which in turn made some of the other guys impatient as well. But it was mostly Mack that was impatient and taking low % shots/plays.

My issue with Bednar in OT was on faceoffs. In OT use your best faceoff guy to win it and get possession then switch him with Mack. Having Mack on the ice during faceoffs (taking it or not) was the main issue. They lose the faceoffs and then you have him skating around for a minute playing defense and getting tired. Then when they finally get possession he is tired so what does he do? He makes a low % play/shot.

 

[Balthazar]

The difference between now and then is the team now circles and keeps the puck like the rest of the NHL. Puck possession in OT back then was like 10% Avs 90% other team...we were losing all the OT's.

Mack still goes for the low % shit though.

 

[The Abusement Park]

He didn't have an elite shot but IMO he has the skill to be an asset on the man-advantage.

I still found it absolutely hilarious that upon his arrival in Buffalo he got visibly frustrated because when they were on the power play, his teammates just stood there without a clue as to what to do.

Don’t know why that was so frustrating. PP1 does that all the time