Post-Game Talk: Game#24: Anaheim Ducks vs Colorado Avalanche, 7pm PT, BSSC (Ducks win 4-3 in SO)

[Leonardo87]

Anaheim Ducks vs Colorado Avalanche
7pm PT, BSSC

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Last Ducks win…

Avalanche Projected Line up

Valeri Nichushkin -- Nathan MacKinnon -- Mikko Rantanen
Tomas Tatar -- Ryan Johansen -- Jonathan Drouin
Miles Wood -- Ross Colton -- Logan O'Connor
Andrew Cogliano -- Fredrik Olofsson -- Joel Kiviranta

Devon Toews -- Cale Makar
Bowen Byram -- Josh Manson
Jack Johnson -- Caleb Jones

Ivan Prosvetov
Alexandar Georgiev​

Scratched: Samuel Girard (personal), Kurtis MacDermid, Sam Malinski

Injured: Arturri Lehkonen (upper body)

Ducks Projected line up

Alex Killorn -- Leo Carlsson -- Troy Terry
Frank Vatrano -- Mason McTavish -- Ryan Strome
Brock McGinn -- Adam Henrique -- Brett Leason
Max Jones -- Benoit-Olivier Groulx -- Sam Carrick

Cam Fowler -- Jackson LaCombe
Pavel Mintyukov -- Ilya Lyubushkin Uibo Urho Vaakanainen -- Radko Gudas

John Gibson
Lukas Dostal

Scratched: Jakob Silfverberg, Ross Johnston, Tristan Luneau

Injured: Trevor Zegras (lower body), Jamie Drysdale (lower body), Isac Lundestrom (Achilles)

The Sporting Tribune

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[CrazyDuck4u]

Loss #9 coming up

 

[Hockey Duckie]

I see the theme. Allow me to extend the thoughts with...

 

[slippingsloth]

Do we cauterize the wound today or will the hemorrhaging extend? Find out at 7p

 

[Terry Yake]

this one's going to be ugly

 

[Hamilton Bulldogs]

Killorn and or Henrique should be sitting. Slow, uninterested and ineffective. Perfect candidates to get shelled by this avs team

 

[Leonardo87]

this one's going to be ugly

Thank goodness I’m taking a Lyft there. I prepared myself. lol

 

[Leonardo87]

I see the theme. Allow me to extend the thoughts with...

Classic! lol

 

[Terry Yake]

Killorn and or Henrique should be sitting. Slow, uninterested and ineffective. Perfect candidates to get shelled by this avs team

henrique needs to be waived or traded

 

[Hockey Duckie]

Killorn and or Henrique should be sitting. Slow, uninterested and ineffective. Perfect candidates to get shelled by this avs team

Rico always "looks" uninterested, but he's engaged. I don't have a problem with our 3C.

Killorn, otoh, shouldn't be on the top line and playing top line minutes. He's probably still not up to NHL speed yet due to missing considerable injury time. When he played on the 3rd line with Rico and Silf, Killorn was more effective because the pace and game play with those two were on point. Of course, Killorn is playing 3rd line minutes. Playing with Carlsson and Terry might be too fast for Killorn along with playing 1st line minutes.

 

[la patineuse]

Oooh boy, here we go again. Maybe they won't give up eight goals tonight---baby steps.

 

[slippingsloth]

I was going to go to this game since work allows. If we win i will be sad i missed it but like everyone else i am concerned about another >5-2 against

my wife is down w the flu and a pretty good one. So maybe thatll save me a few hundred witnessing a massacre on tv instead of in person

 

[All Mighty]

We will see who gets paired with Fowler.

 

[McDonald19]

Wow, is that a healthy scratch for Silfver? Nice!!

 

[snowave]

Silf ... kinda surprised at that. He's not been great by any means, but he's out there hustling and playing about how most of us expect.

 

[Leonardo87]

Wow, is that a healthy scratch for Silfver? Nice!!

Could be banged up also. But Cronin needs to start making these hard decisions. I doubt he will scratch Killorn who Verbeek just paid over 6 million dollars to, but I think it needs to be done.

 

[MMC]

 

[ohcomeonref]

Should have sat Killorn and kept Silf up. Killorn needs a game from the box to pull his head out of his ass.

 

[ducks8]

Kind of surprised they are rolling with Gibson in this one. Maybe not to further destroy Dostal's confidence?

 

[Arthuros]

Who are we playing again?

...

Well, let's hope we bounce back against the Hawks!

 

[CrazyDuck4u]

I agree with silf sitting. Henrique needs to sit too

 

[Hockey Duckie]

We will see who gets paired with Fowler.

Maybe they're trying to shelter Luneau against more difficult teams.

As for Killorn, maybe we should put him back on the 3rd line so that he actually has some energy. Move Jones up to the 1st line b/c he's got speed and energy to play 1st line minutes, at the very least.

 

[Hockey Duckie]

Yup. Many of us have pointed out how Mac cheats up top. Then there's also our forwards flying out of the dzone and leaving our d-men on an island with the puck without great passing outlet options.

 

[Leonardo87]

So, If the other team scores 5 goals do fans get like a bottle of Jack Daniels? Asking for a friend, lol

 

[Ducks DVM]

Last 3 games - G, A, +/-, PIM, shots

McTavish - 0, 0, -6, 4, 5
Strome - 1, 0, -4, , 4, 3
Vatrano - 1, 1, -4, 2……17!

combined 2G, 1A, -14, 10 PIM, 25 shots (68% of which are Vatrano)

Side note - 21 skaters appeared on those 3 games, Vatrano has a full 20% of the shots. Killorn is in 2nd with 10 shots, Terry is 3rd with 8.