GDT: SCPO 2025 ROUND 1 GAME 1 COL vs DAL

Was there any woman on earth more attractive than Jamie Sommers?

  • No.

    Votes: 2 3.2%
  • Hell no.

    Votes: 3 4.8%
  • Absolutely not.

    Votes: 5 7.9%
  • Who's Jamie Sommers?

    Votes: 59 93.7%

  • Total voters
    63
Positives to take away from the game:

- I don't know if it's possible for Makar to miss the net that many times again. His shooting was horrendous tonight.

- Lehkonen goal FINALLY

- 4th line was unbelievable

- Blackwood was unbelievable

- Necas came ready to play with a lot of heads up plays, nothing overly fancy outside of the failed 2-on-1 with Nate, and was shockingly physical

Negatives:

- Erik Johnson was horrendous and needs to come out immediately. The Stars threw 18 hits tonight. They aren't a physical team, especially up front. Aside from Marchment and Benn, who hits? And Benn doesn't hit unless he's mad/gooning it up.

- 2nd line outside of a good Nelson 1st period was bad. What's new, though? We knew Drouin-Nelson-Nichushkin didn't work from the TDL on yet Bednar started with it again to our annoyance.

- Did I mention Erik Johnson was bad?

- PK looked really bad. The Stars had multiple grade-A opportunities and if that happens in game 2, they likely pot a couple on the man advantage.
 
What I care about more than anything in the playoffs is 5v5 numbers. Special teams will slowly dwindle as series' progress so here's 5v5:

Shot Attempts 58-36 Avalanche
Shots on Goal 18-13 Avalanche
Scoring Chances 18-16 Avalanche
High Danger Chances 10-9 Stars
xGF 2.10 - 2.09 Stars

On the road like this I thought the Avs were better through 40 and the Stars came out like gangbusters in the 3rd trying to tie it up. They came very close, what a massive save by Blackwood on that absolute rodent Marchment then a huge goal by Toews right after.

Happy with the win but they can definitely reach another level.
Yeah the Avs certainly have another level to get to. They carried the play most of the game but didn't trouble Oettinger as often as you'd think with twice the amount of chances (i.e. around 67% CF% through two periods).

It would help if Makar could hit the net of course. But also have to give credit to Dallas as they did a good job keeping the Avs to the outside a lot of the time.
 
I thought that was like a B- game from Makar at best and not just because of all of those missed shots. The usual control and burst just wasn’t there. Could be the ice, rust, an off night, or something else.

Regardless, I only expect him to be better and that’s a great thing for the Avs as this continues.
 
I thought that was like a B- game from Makar at best and not just because of all of those missed shots. The usual control and burst just wasn’t there. Could be the ice, rust, an off night, or something else.

Regardless, I only expect him to be better and that’s a great thing for the Avs as this continues.
Oh yeah, it excites me knowing MacKinnon and Makar had B-/B games and the Avs still won 5-1.
 
Positives to take away from the game:

- I don't know if it's possible for Makar to miss the net that many times again. His shooting was horrendous tonight.

- Lehkonen goal FINALLY

- 4th line was unbelievable

- Blackwood was unbelievable

- Necas came ready to play with a lot of heads up plays, nothing overly fancy outside of the failed 2-on-1 with Nate, and was shockingly physical

Negatives:

- Erik Johnson was horrendous and needs to come out immediately. The Stars threw 18 hits tonight. They aren't a physical team, especially up front. Aside from Marchment and Benn, who hits? And Benn doesn't hit unless he's mad/gooning it up.

- 2nd line outside of a good Nelson 1st period was bad. What's new, though? We knew Drouin-Nelson-Nichushkin didn't work from the TDL on yet Bednar started with it again to our annoyance.

- Did I mention Erik Johnson was bad?

- PK looked really bad. The Stars had multiple grade-A opportunities and if that happens in game 2, they likely pot a couple on the man advantage.
Wasn't just Makar. The whole team missed the net a lot. Had to have 20 shots hit the back glass.

Clean that up, they're probably in pretty good shape.
 
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