Did I see it right? Did the Avs win a game in OT?
Ahhh shrugsNo. It was a dream, go back to sleep.
It was a decent shot, but Grubauer played it terribly. Has to be better at tracking the puck. NHL goalie's simply don't lose track of the puck that badly.
I have said this before but Grubauer's lateral movement is quite awful and for some reason he has trouble locating the puck through traffic. He seems like a Bernier 2.0.
I never said give up on him, but he sure as hell needs to be playing second fiddle at the moment as he hasn't looked anywhere close to as good as Varly this year.
And my counter to all of your stats over the past couple seasons is yes they look great, but he also had one hell of a good team in front of him, in fact that team was President's trophy good two years ago and Stanley Cup winners last year good. Now he doesn't have that kind of supporting cast, and the numbers have slipped.
He needs to prove that he can play at a high level when his team isn't one of the elite teams of the league. Which to this point this season he hasn't shown.
Hard game to watch for the most part and I can't believe Bednar seriously tried Soda with Kamenev to get the scoring going. Fortunately he came to his senses a bit later.
No idea, why Dano played. Just send him down and thank the heavens if he gets claimed. Let Greer play a few games in a row.
I don't think I can stand Grubauer.
Barberio should have played over Nemeth.
Important two points against a currently terrible team.
Because they are too similar. Both Soda and Kamenev (on different lines) paired with skilled wingers make things happen offensively and are good defensively, the both of them together (on one line) with a mediocre winger make a great shutdown line which won't do much offensively.I'm confused. Why on Earth was this a bad thing? Kam was easily our most dangerous forward aside from the top line last night.
Wilson for Nieto or DriesWhen JTC returns I'd like to see...
Top Line
Jost-Kam-Ghetto
Kerfoot-Soda- JTC
Dries-Calvert-Nieto
Would give us 3 lines that can score and the 4th line could be limited
Yeah when they showed Bednar after Z took that penalty he just looked up to the heavens like what the f*** am I going to do now? I don’t think he really has any other coarse of action but to play him, now, though. Need a confident Z going forward and sitting him didn’t seem to help in that department. I get his frustration, though. The timing of his penalties really stink.Nate and Mikko are just so dominant when they want to be. It's a very special thing to be able to watch that line play hockey. Haven't seen an Avalanche player dominate so often like they have since Peter Forsberg.
Landy doesn't get as much credit as the two big dogs, but he does so many things to help that line be successful. He was a big net front pretense on the Avs three final goals to get them back in it and win. Those goals don't happen without him.
Grubauer with a mixed game. Some really good saves holding the team in the game but another iffy goal on Getzlaf. Not sure why he slid to the wrong post and left half the net open but he made up for it with some strong saves after.
Glad Bednar didn't bench Z again after that interference penalty. That was worse than the one against Wagner. If he benches him there, things start snowballing out of control IMO. Should be interesting to see if he scratches him again. This wasn't a great game from him. He looked too tentative at times to me and overly safe. I remember one play where he had room to break out with the puck in front of his net, but he was scared to turn it over so he went behind the net instead, and they got hemmed in the zone. I just hope this tough love approach doesn't backfire. He was playing fine before this.
Cole and EJ had pretty tough games. Not sure what happened there, but EJ was making some pretty bad decisions with the puck and turning it over way too often. He's got to be better than that.
They have got to shuffle up those bottom three lines. They are just not working. If they're gonna play Jost on the wing, they should put him with Soda. They made a great play together last game, and they compliment each other much better than Kerfoot/Wilson/Ghetto. Compher can't get back soon enough. Not just for his potential production, but he finally gives them a decent RW option outside of Mikko.
Great come back win though. Playoff teams need a few of theses a season.
Because they are too similar. Both Soda and Kamenev (on different lines) paired with skilled wingers make things happen offensively and are good defensively, the both of them together (on one line) with a mediocre winger make a great shutdown line which won't do much offensively.
Absolutely agree , Grubauer has never been good , amazed he even made it to the NHL.Grubauer sucks.... good initiative on the trade but the guy blows. Resign Varly, get whatever you can for grubs
Someone who lives in a proper city that has Blues bars?Lol Bednar with the very calculated answer to Zadorov.
What kind of sub human doesn't love jazz bars.
True lol and I knew that since they just had that thing about 90's players still left.
I'm an idiot, ignore me.
Brian Hayward has literally been whining about the refs not calling that trip for 2 minutes.