GDT: Leaving Las Vegas | 8 PM MT

[AvsGuy]

I have no idea how Vegas has "one of the best defenses in the league" - past their top 3 that looks like absolute trash

 

[NOTENOUGHRYJOTHINGS]

The window officially closes tonight. See you next decade.

 

[GeoRox89]

I have no idea how Vegas has "one of the best defenses in the league" - past their top 3 that looks like absolute trash

Who are you picking as 3? Whitecloud? Martinez (at his age) and McNabb are still solid 4/5s and I’d take Hague over whatever Manson and JMFJ have been this year

 

[expatriatedtexan]

This is an Avalanche reference.


I take no responsibility for the video or the bad music.



A. Lehkonen - M. Kinnunen - M. Rantanen
Tufted Sofa - Johansen - V. for Vegas Nichushkin
M.(orning) Wood - Colton - L. O. C.
MacDeterrent - Olofsson - Cogliano

Toews - Makar
Byram - Girard
J. M. F. Johnson - Manson

Georgiev
Prosvetov

(There will be absolutely no jokes about Nuke in Vegas with a Prosvetov, and I don't know what they even could be.)



Barbashev - Eichel - Marchessault
Cotter - Stephenson - Stone
Dorofeyev - Karlsson - Armadillo
Røndbjerg - Howden - Kolesar

Martinez - Pietrangelo
Hishon - Theodore
Pachal - Hutton

Thompson
Hill

This GDT:

The HFAvs GDT polls ten games in:

EPIC GDT!

My favorite part may be the caption explaining "This is an Avalanche reference" to the top picture. I don't know why but I laughed way harder than I should have at that. Must've been the weed.

 

[NOTENOUGHRYJOTHINGS]

Who are you picking as 3? Whitecloud? Martinez (at his age) and McNabb are still solid 4/5s and I’d take Hague over whatever Manson and JMFJ have been this year

Hot take but Vegas arguably has a better second pairing once you take into account handedness and ability to play together.

G and Byram just don't work as pair. And Manson as #4 is too injured and inconsistent (or consistently bad).

 

[MacKaRtin]

Hot take but Vegas arguably has a better second pairing once you take into account handedness and ability to play together.

You can add taking into account size to the list.

 

[RoyIsALegend]

Can’t wait for this game tonight, hope both teams come out strong and we see the cream of the Western Conference crop on display.

Keys for both teams remain the same as always when they meet.

For us, we need to get the skating and transition game going early. We want speed, we want space, we want high energy hockey.

For Vegas, get that puck in deep, smash and grind down our finesse defensemen, endless cycles and havoc in the paint. Limit time and space. Heavy, big boy hockey.

 

[AvsGuy]

Who are you picking as 3? Whitecloud? Martinez (at his age) and McNabb are still solid 4/5s and I’d take Hague over whatever Manson and JMFJ have been this year

The 3 obvious choices in the original lineup post

 

[NOTENOUGHRYJOTHINGS]

You can add taking into account size to the list.

Height and weight are the real advanced stats.

 

[expatriatedtexan]

Feel like this is a game where the forwards will dictate how successful we are, not with their offense but by how well they support the D in our own zone. Against Vegas, it seems like, in a lot of our losses our forwards are transitioning to offense before the defense is ready. That's when Vegas can really pick apart and abuse our smaller dmen. They've got to make sure they support the D.

 

[Muffin]

Need MacKinnon to step up, he’s been pretty underwhelming by his standard ever since the first game of the season.

 

[UncleRisto]

They've got to make sure they support the D.

And don't neglect the balls.

 

[GeoRox89]

The 3 obvious choices in the original lineup post

2 of their top 4/5 guys are out based on that lineup I didn’t even look at earlier. Our D would look awful missing G and Byram too

 

[GeoRox89]

Hot take but Vegas arguably has a better second pairing once you take into account handedness and ability to play together.

G and Byram just don't work as pair. And Manson as #4 is too injured and inconsistent (or consistently bad).

I don’t really think this is too hot of a take. I prefer Toews-Cale to Theodore-Pietrangelo. In a vacuum G and Byram are probably better than Martinez - Whitecloud but as an actual cohesive pairing the Vegas one is better

 

[katfude]

Not watching live tonight. I'm going to watch CU get beaten live instead of watching the Avs get slaughtered from a distance. Vegas is going to stomp us.

Predicting 3-2 avs with a Makar hat trick

 

[tshack]

I anticipate a hockey game between 2 NHL squads where one team scores more goals than the other, resulting in a win for that team.

5-2 Avs with Stone complaining to the ref about a missed call late in the game after slashing Mack all night.

 

[forsbergavs32]

Not watching live tonight. I'm going to watch CU get beaten live instead of watching the Avs get slaughtered from a distance. Vegas is going to stomp us.

Predicting 3-2 avs with a Makar hat trick

 

[JoeSakic13]

 

[NOTENOUGHRYJOTHINGS]

@Sea Eagles or @nammerus will emerge from their slumber by the end of the first period.

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

Hot take but Vegas arguably has a better second pairing once you take into account handedness and ability to play together.

G and Byram just don't work as pair. And Manson as #4 is too injured and inconsistent (or consistently bad).

I dont think I agree with this, largely because I think this idea that G/Byram not working together just isn't really true.


Girard has been our best Dman all year quite frankly, and while relative to expectations perhaps Byram has been disappointing, he's also still putting up really solid analytics all year. He's just having brain farts at a much higher rate than we'd like basically.

Admittedly I haven't been able to look and see if those two are putting up the godly possession metrics when together or just when separated, but both of them have controlled play at a high rate on the ice. Girard moreso, but Byram has still been solid. Those two along with Toews/Makar have clearly been the best 4 D we have and pretty much all 4 are controlling play completely when on the ice.

 

[Tralfamadore]

I have no idea how Vegas has "one of the best defenses in the league" - past their top 3 that looks like absolute trash

Just described the Avs lol

 

[lionsDen]

The ghost of Hishon disappointing us again

 

[Balthazar]

 

[dahrougem2]

5-1 Vegas. Shots 42-20 for Vegas. Kolesar injures someone again.

Would be nice if Nathan MacKinnon could snap out of his funk tonight. He has looked as dangerous offensively to start this season as he did from 14-15 until 16-17.

 

[Vaslof]

Tufte