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Look, I'm not taking the responsibility off of Mitts' shoulders but he didn't all of a sudden become a bad hockey player.

When you're clearly in the doghouse every shift has added pressure and instead of just playing hockey, you get into your head over every play. Mitts needs to be mentally stronger to work through that but it's pretty clear whats going on. His talent didn't disappear, he's just more of a cerebral player that doesn't fit Bednar's system
Which I get but what are we gonna flip him for at this point. The Avs aren’t in a position of strength here. It would have to be a struggling player for struggling player trade unless a bottom feeder is looking for someone like him.
 
Necas lol

They had to adjust the entire thing to fit his 5.6 score.

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It would be crazy if Rantanen struggled a bunch down the stretch here for the Canes, to the point where his best offers in the summer end up being in the same range the Avs were offering him before anyway.... And then he actually ended up coming back here for like $11.5M while we get Necas and Drury for free :laugh:
I mean Drury has twice as many goals as Rantanen since the trade.

We might not be able to afford our new sniper.
 
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Parssinen is not a top 6 forward, Mitts is another RyJo experiment gone wrong. Drouin is the only top 6 guy on that 2nd line. CMac needs to fix this ASAP

Parssinen has 1 more game tomorrow before he’s a healthy scratch coming out of the Four Nations. Nuke will be in his spot.

Bednar doesn’t think Parssinen is a serious player.

I have no idea why CMac gave up an asset for a player Bednar thinks is a joke and not a legit candidate for minutes in a contending season.
 
Parssinen has 1 more game tomorrow before he’s a healthy scratch coming out of the Four Nations. Nuke will be in his spot.

Bednar doesn’t think Parssinen is a serious player.

I have no idea why CMac gave up an asset for a player Bednar thinks is a joke and not a legit candidate for minutes in a contending season.
This is one thing that drives me nuts about Bednar. Parssinen hasn’t been terrible imo. He certainly hasn’t been a world beater, but it’s just weird how once he doesn’t like you, you might as well ask to get sent down.
 
Which I get but what are we gonna flip him for at this point. The Avs aren’t in a position of strength here. It would have to be a struggling player for struggling player trade unless a bottom feeder is looking for someone like him.
Barring a Kadri trade, I don't see a realistic option to flip him. It's not like we have the C depth to spare at the moment and there's not a ton of options out there.

More likely we try to find a guy to push him down the lineup. Unless CMac just clears his cap or can pull a rabbit out of his hat and grab someone like JEE
 
This is one thing that drives me nuts about Bednar. Parssinen hasn’t been terrible imo. He certainly hasn’t been a world beater, but it’s just weird how once he doesn’t like you, you might as well ask to get sent down.
God i hate nhl coaching because i can say fire bednar until the roof collapses but the next idiot they bring in is also going to have insane, completely irrational biases we all hate, as well.

But at least bennett wouldn't be our PP coach
 
CF%xGF%
MacKinnon Line79.3%76.8%
Mittelstadt Line25.0%19.4%
Drury Line70.6%85.9%
Kelly Line41.2%79.2%

2nd line blew, not that I needed to dig up stats to tell you that.

Only (2) shot attempts, (4) scoring chances against (things would obviously look better if the off-side goal counted). By comparison, the Kelly line got out-corsi'd, but had (5) scoring chances for and only (1) against. And the 3rd line was really good, a welcome change from their usual crappiness.
 
We missed a huge opportunity not bringing in Alex Tanguay to run the powerplay.

He’s doing wonders with Detroit.

Wings have the #3 PP in the NHL and Tanguay has full control of what they do with the man advantage.
And with the proclivity of this franchise to do it, frankly it's embarrassing
 
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Parssinen > Mittelstadt. But having both on the 2nd line sets up both to fail. Parssinen is the new guy who was brought in as a project player, so it'll definitely be Mittelstadt who gets the spot when Nuke is back.
 
Mitts and Parsnip just need to be on the 4th line tomorrow

Lehk - Mack - Necas
Colton - Drury - Drouin
Kivi - Kelly - LOC
Parsnip - Mitts - Wood

Then try to find a new home for Mitts over the break.
 
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I love Mikko, but it's very apparent that anyone with borderline elite talent becomes a hockey god on Nate's line
I agree. But Necas brings way more to the table than Mikko. I know posts don't count, but if it were 1 inch the other way, Necas would have 7-8 goals in his Avs tenure already.
 
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I agree. But Necas brings way more to the table than Mikko. I know posts don't count, but if it were 1 inch the other way, Necas would have 7-8 goals in his Avs tenure already.
Effort is everything when you're playing with Nathan The Dogg Effort MacKinnon Esquire the Third
 

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