GDT: [Emergency GDT, 3/16/25 1:30 MT] Avs vs Stars and the Battle for the Moose's Soul
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I've always hated them. But they have had players I've respected the crap out of. I would have loved to have had Sergei Zubov and/or Darryl Sydor on the Avs.
Can we get Mike Modano for a 2C? I mean he’s 54 but looks younger than Nelson
The non-call trip on Necas in the OZ in the first period was bad too. We just had a PP though so we were never getting another one at that point. #Game management
And still this game should have never ever go into OT.... Giving Dallas a cheap point in this game is hilarious......
The bounce off the ref was obviously unlucky, but the Avs did get the puck first after that bounce and then failed to clear again. It's self inflicted to an extent, just like the last two goals, and they have to be better at clearing the puck.
Did Duchene have a 30 goal scored bonus that year? Might also explain the celebration
Happy for the win, but when playoffs start and the refs put away the whistles, we better be ready this time.
That 3rd period was a first look for the playoffs. They wont outplay us, but they will try to outworn us again.
If you cant beat them, hurt them....
I dont give a shit about this "Dallas changed their style"... No, they will play the exact same DeBoer-Style like last year. And ffs i really hope Bednar and his crew are prepared and are finally able to counter this style.
That 3rd period was a first look for the playoffs. They wont outplay us, but they will try to outworn us again.
If you cant beat them, hurt them....
I dont give a shit about this "Dallas changed their style"... No, they will play the exact same DeBoer-Style like last year. And ffs i really hope Bednar and his crew are prepared and are finally able to counter this style.
I recognize Modano's importance and place in US hockey history, but he always seemed a bity whiny for my liking.
Dude could make a jersey flap in his breeze like no other player I've ever seen. It made his skating look almost... majestic?
I f***ing hate them, since the 90s, moreso than Minny for example. And i worry about meeting them in the play-offs, cause i honestly believe they have our number, always had, at least more often than not. Yesterday was another fine example, despite outshooting and outplaying them, the game still ended up with a tie and we needed Makar individual brilliance to win it.
It always feels like we have to try the hardest to score, when to them it just happens so easily. The last time we played them this year (when we won like 7:3 or so), when Robertson thread the puck like aneedle through the smallest of holes out of nothing.... and obviously, now aside of Duchene, they have Rants as well, our former fan-favourites, with extra motivation to bury us, based on the reasons how we parted ways.
Now we barely beaten them, imagine they get Heiskanen and possibly even Seguin for playoffs. Nichushkin better not sniff the coke this year and be there and play like he did yesterday.
He used to be my fav Avs player, before we got Nate, and for sure, he soured on me as well. I would not be surprised if he had a strong dislike for Avs org now, so its not difficult to dislike him based on that assumption.
But bit to his defense now - he used to be a fan like we are. But then things did not go well, which happens during the rebuilds, and he was not the only one to blame. At the time we were rather top heavy team with weak defense, we needed to fix that, and unfortunately for him, he was the one that had to go to do that - even if he did not want to...and to make things worse, it took months to execute it, during which time he had to live in uncertainity, knowing its gonna happen, not knowing when - i mean, it surely sucked and might have broken him mentally, if he truly was the cancer on the team before the trade, that was the reason, and it was not completely his fault. There were circumstances out of his hands that led to it - i usually dont have much sympathy for people earning millions, but they are human too, after all.
On topic of Mikko, we now believe its all his fault for being greedy, but TBF, if its true he was surprised about the trade and would have accepted Avs terms if he knew he was a goner otherwise (and seeing the money he signed for with Dallas seem to suggest he would), the FO could have handled whole thing better as well. I mean, just tell him straight, either accept this, or get traded now, or if there was never intention to sign him in the first place, cause we could have someone like Necas for half the price, just tell him sorry, we believe we have to move one and cant afford you for that kind of money in the future...
I never agreed to any bet.
Not because I doubt it going one way way or another. I like my avatar and think avatar bets are stupid.
Have a good day.
There is no defending Duchene. He is the one who requested the trade from the Avalanche and he said during the press conference after with Ottawa that he wanted to play playoff hockey as a major reason for his request.
That's the difference between he and Landeskog, because during that same timeframe when Landeskog was in trade rumours he reportedly bypassed his agent and went to Sakic himself to tell him he wants to stay.
A leader vs a whiner.
Whatever was said, i dont remember specifics, but i am pretty sure, even if it was him who ultimately requested the trade, the reason was not because he somehow could not wait to play play-offs over staying with his childhood club. The reason was surely that we have been dangling him as trade-bait for over a year, whether he liked it or not, and he must have grown tired of it.
OFC he was not going to say in press conference in Ottawa that he in fact did not want to be there, but Colorado was trading him anyway, in order to fix their defense.
F*** Matt Duchene. He's also from Haliburton, and anyone familiar with the area would know that he embodies that place. Just a bunch of whiners who think they're better than they are
That is how a FO loses support of a fanbase and is ultimately shown the door themselves. IMO the FO never had any intention of signing him but had to in a way pin it on Rantanen, which they did masterfully by sticking to lowball offer that Rantanen repeatedly turned down.
