GDT: Game 41: Preds @ Avs | 1 PM MT | Predators and Other Animals

[Skip2myBordyloo]

Mac, Dutchy, and Landeskog all have wingers good enough to be scoring more goals with than they have been. Rantanen is good, Bourque and Nieto are fine enough.

Disagree, neither are top 6 players on a decent team, they look okay among the garbage.

 

[JoemAvs]

Mac, Dutchy, and Landeskog all have wingers good enough to be scoring more goals with than they have been. Rantanen is good, Bourque and Nieto are fine enough.

The three guys still can't put up points thoguh they'll all look notably good in a given game. Yeah I know Bednar's a **** coach but for me it just makes it easier to move on from these guys, Duchene and Landeskog anyways. We might love them but they aren't what we need them to be.

Its called having the worst defense in the league behind you.

Three forwards without support are not worth much.

There is a reason why everyone is hoarding good defensemen right now....

And yeah. PTO Bourque and Nieto who just got claimed on waivers are not exactly fine....

 

[CobraAcesS]

Score aside, that game was a lot more entertaining than the last one against Anaheim.

 

[Goulet17]

Bourque as 1G 2A and -12 in his last 20 games. Sakic needs to trade him fast if we expect to get anything in return.

If the other teams' scouts are watching the game, I would be surprised if there is much interest in some of these vets.

 

[AMDZen]

Disagree, neither are top 6 players on a decent team, they look okay among the garbage.

agreed

Nieto is young enough that I don't mind if he remains around for a bottom 6 role. Borque needs to be traded before TDL - along with many others

 

[AMDZen]

If the other teams' scouts are watching the game, I would be surprised if there is much interest in some of these vets.

On the other side of that

And I preface this that I am watching playoff football so ... but for the part of the game I did watch. At the beginning and between commercials, Landeskog looked amazing. Better than he has all season even.

Makes me wonder if he is picking up his play so much because he actually WANTS to be traded, and knows there are rumors and scouts en masse.

 

[UncleRisto]

agreed

Nieto is young enough that I don't mind if he remains around for a bottom 6 role. Borque needs to be traded before TDL - along with many others

Think Bourque might pass through waivers right now.

 

[derbyavs]

We made Cody Mcleod look like a solid bottom 6 player tonight. I know he'd have been fired up to play us a day after being traded but he looked twice as good, if not more, than over half of our forwards tonight. Maybe the problem isn't the assets we have, but the people controlling the assets and making decisions.

 

[Skip2myBordyloo]

We made Cody Mcleod look like a solid bottom 6 player tonight. I know he'd have been fired up to play us a day after being traded but he looked twice as good, if not more, than over half of our forwards tonight. Maybe the problem isn't the assets we have, but the people controlling the assets and making decisions.

To be fair he was going to play hard all night with an edge and he has a fresh start with a new team.

He wasn't going to play the same way going in and out of the press box with Bednar.

 

[The Mars Volchenkov]

Any explanation to why MacK was on the bench a good chunk of the 2nd?

 

[S E P H]

Any explanation to why MacK was on the bench a good chunk of the 2nd?

Bednar said he was "banged up" in the post game interview.

 

[falconski]

awww that was kinda sad. like im glad Cody is gone, nothing against him as a player but i think it signifies a need for new change
But listening to his post game he still refers to the Avs as his team and calls the Preds, Nashville

nah, good for cody, he gets to compete for a cup while playing his role (even though I think Nashville is a pretender this year). His heart's still with the avs though.

Landeskog and oddly enough, beauchemin were our positives tonight though

 

[RockLobster]

Bednar said he was "banged up" in the post game interview.

I'm talking w/ AJ, who was in the room and recorded the post-game press conference.

He was pretty sure, and then double-checked the recording, that Bednar said:

"Well, certainly it wasn't because he got dinged up" and he says that's the exact quote.

 

[Alex Jones]

I'm guessing there was an altercation or Mackinnon did something Bednar didn't like. Not sure how well the tough guy act will wear for Bednar.

 

[dahrougem2]

I'm guessing there was an altercation or Mackinnon did something Bednar didn't like. Not sure how well the tough guy act will wear for Bednar.

He shouldn't be doing the things he's doing. Benching young star players, scratching young players, constantly shuffling the lines game after game, sometimes period after period, and allowing the veterans of the team to coast game after game.

I wouldn't be surprised one bit if the young players on this team tuned him out a while ago

 

[JLo217]

I'm talking w/ AJ, who was in the room and recorded the post-game press conference.

He was pretty sure, and then double-checked the recording, that Bednar said:

"Well, certainly it wasn't because he got dinged up" and he says that's the exact quote.

Bednar needs to go... what a ****ing idiot.

That said the Avs didn't do themselves any favors this game, but it sure as heck was one-sided when it comes to officiating.

 

[Avs_19]

I don't like sending the kids a message by just outright benching them but we don't know what happened in this case. I'm not going to rip on Bednar for it.

 

[The Kingslayer]

Not gonna rip on Bednar till I know what exactly happened. Maybe he told Mackinnon not to cuss out his teammates and Mack did. Who knows.

 

[Freudian]

We're running out of steam, capt'n.

 

[Metallo]

Everything about the team is dysfunctional. It's scary.

 

[agentblack]

nah, good for cody, he gets to compete for a cup while playing his role (even though I think Nashville is a pretender this year). His heart's still with the avs though.

Landeskog and oddly enough, beauchemin were our positives tonight though

It was kinda cute actually, he had to correct himself twice and laughed about it the second time

bye cody

 

[hockeyfish]

We're running out of steam, capt'n.

Win out and we'd still only wind up at 109.

 

[Bubba Thudd]

Oh well, can't win them all. We were bound to lose sooner or later.

 

[UncleRisto]

Oh well, can't win them all. We were bound to lose sooner or later.

Everyone just needs to chill. We still have a shot at this.

 

[InjuredChoker]

Oh well, can't win them all. We were bound to lose sooner or later.

i laughed at this harder than i maybe should.