Again, I don't know what you're expecting from a capable, but not elite, bottom six forward drafted 150th overall. Why does all this scrutiny fall on Kerfoot and not on, say, Nieto? Did he "play beyond his elements," as you put it? Um...yeah. That's the point. He's a perfectly good complementary depth forward who had to play much higher in the Avalanche lineup than he should have because the team had no depth up front to speak of. Why was the narrative so harshly rewritten on this guy? Avs fans loved him when he first arrived.
Here's my theory: I think he scored some insanely lucky goals to start his NHL career (again, one of them was so lucky, even he and Landy laughed about it watching the replay) but he was also putting himself in good position to score those lucky goals. But that threw expectations WAY outta whack afterwards. He's not a great finisher, I don't know why you're acting so frustrated about that when that was never his forte, and people were even saying so at the time. He's very good at skating the puck out of the defensive zone and can make some decent passes, also does reasonably well scrapping in front of the net and battling for pucks. Beyond that, what in hell do you want out of a depth forward the Avalanche acquired for literally nothing?
BTW, say what you will about him, but Martin Jones isn't a horrible playoff goalie. He made plenty of Avs players look bad, and he also outplayed Marc-Andre Fleury on a few nights in the following round. The Avs lost that round because they weren't quite good enough (a questionable offside review call didn't help matters, but also, GET THE f*** OFF THE ICE GABE). The only bad thing I can recall Kerf doing in that series was having the audacity to lose his skate blade when blocking a Brent Burns shot.
