WCQF (Game 2) Winnipeg Jets vs Colorado Avalanche , 9:30pm ET, ESPN

[ACLEVERNAME]

Flat effort. Not impressed. Colorado has the history - gonna be tough for the Jets

 

[BTP]

Honestly Avs are my pick for the cup. I feel like when they turn it on they look unstoppable... Like an avalanche

 

[SeanMoneyHands]

Hellebuyck has been God-awful in both games.

Not sure if he’s pressing too hard because it’s the playoffs or if he’s just having stage fright, but he’s been absolutely brutal so far.

Hellebuyck kept his team in it early. It easily could have been 5-0 after the 1st.
But he needs to be better. He’s not playing like the 2nd highest paid goalie in the NHL right now.

 

[Chainshot]

Helle's "tend the goal" moment was a big part of this.

 

[a mangy Meowth]

Great for Avs to steal a game on the road. Home ice advantage flipped

 

[MessierII]

Avs were obviously not going to roll over. This will be a long series.

 

[Divine]

Just like everyone expected, after 2 games Hellebuyck let in more goals than Georgiev

 

[JWK]

Jets were f***ed once they got Pat McAfee on their side

 

[SeanMoneyHands]

Look up Hellebuycks playoff stats in his career. His numbers are not great for a goalie of his calibre.

 

[PhilJets]

Good game by the Avs

not so much for the Jets.

They deserve to win.

on to game 3

 

[gn2007]

How was the avs against Seattle didn't they outplay them all the games and Seattle scored in opportunities?

 

[Bruce Granville]

Look up Hellebuycks playoff stats in his career. His numbers are not great for a goalie of his calibre.

Yeah, he’s the Matthews of goalies.

 

[forsbergavs32]

Fun game, nice for George to have himself a bounce back game.

 

[WolfgangPuck]

if the games are going to be this fast pace. Avs will win this series.
Jets need to slow the pace and counterpunch otherwise it’s Avs

 

[Turin]

Hellebuyck has been God-awful in both games.

Not sure if he’s pressing too hard because it’s the playoffs or if he’s just having stage fright, but he’s been absolutely brutal so far.

He gets so jumpy in the playoffs. It’s like a switch goes off

 

[ACLEVERNAME]

These Avs announcers yell too much.

That's 'cause of the elevation and the thinner air they experience living and working in Colorado. It's a completely different environment and it takes time to adjust to life at 'sea level'. It's also a known fact that most men will miss the bowl for a good week before acclimating. Most NHL cities will charge higher hotel fees to Colorado for that very reason - its true look it up.

 

[forsbergavs32]

That's 'cause of the elevation and the thinner air they experience living and working in Colorado. It's a completely different environment and it takes time to adjust to life at 'sea level'. It's also a known fact that most men will miss the bowl for a good week before acclimating. Most NHL cities will charge higher hotel fees to Colorado for that very reason - its true look it up.

Marc Moser is like Austin Powers after coming out of the cryo-chamber, except Moser can never control the volume of his voice.

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

Honestly Avs are my pick for the cup. I feel like when they turn it on they look unstoppable... Like an avalanche

They look really good, but the goaltending is still a huge, huge concern. Georgiev had a good game tonight but its not like that just resolves the last month of quite frankly not even AHL caliber goaltending.

Maybe if he puts up 3-4 straight strong games, the Avs win this series in 5... Then they start looking like a Cup favorite again.

For now even as an Avs fan I dont even trust our goaltending to win this series.

 

[ijuka]

Hellebuyck kept his team in it early. It easily could have been 5-0 after the 1st.

The Avalanche had 1.4 expected goals after the first.

You're technically correct(for example, Canucks had 4 shots on goal in the first, so in their game, the game couldn't have been 5-0), but this sort of a statement is largely meaningless.

 

[TheNumber4]

That's 'cause of the elevation and the thinner air they experience living and working in Colorado. It's a completely different environment and it takes time to adjust to life at 'sea level'. It's also a known fact that most men will miss the bowl for a good week before acclimating. Most NHL cities will charge higher hotel fees to Colorado for that very reason - its true look it up.

Really? I thought they were just uncontrollable homers.

 

[lionsDen]

I hadn’t heard is drouin gonna make it back for this series?

 

[forsbergavs32]

I hadn’t heard is drouin gonna make it back for this series?

He's out for the series

 

[forsbergavs32]

Back to the series thread we go