Pre-Game Talk: Week of Make a F***ing Save, Damnit! vs NYI (Mon 7PM); vs BOS (Wed 7:30PM); vs ANA (Fri 7PM); @ SJ (Sun 6PM)

[RECKLESS]

Book it and mark my words, Avs win Boston next game.

Day off. Re-set. Welcome an east-coast heavyweight (this I mean literally, biggest boys of the league) to altitude, and f***ing skate around them.

 

[henchman21]

Book it and mark my words, Avs win Boston next game.

Day off. Re-set. Welcome an east-coast heavyweight (this I mean literally, biggest boys of the league) to altitude, and f***ing skate around them.

Given how soft the Avs are, this is more scary than hopeful.

 

[S E P H]

Is this bad? It feels bad.

It's definitely a mixture of Georgiev being horrific and Avs playing rubbish defence in front of him. I just point this out due to the Dallas Stars and LA Kings goalers being in the top 10.

 

[henchman21]

It's definitely a mixture of Georgiev being horrific and Avs playing rubbish defence in front of him. I just point this out due to the Dallas Stars and LA Kings goalers being in the top 10.

To me, last night was the first truly bad game the team had defensively and they weren't horrific... just bad. All situations, the Avs sit 10th in xGA/60. That's roughly where they should probably be.

I honestly think it is undersold on how horrific the goaltending is. The Avs' GAA is 6.67. Their xGAA is 2.68. Which means they are 3.99 per game over expectation. The next worst in the league is Edmonton at 2.25. Excluding the Avs, there are only 7 other teams giving up more than 3.99 per game period. 5 of those are practically tied with it at exactly 4. Meaning only 2 teams have an actual GAA materially worse than what the Avs are giving up over expectation. Washington and Edmonton are those two teams.

 

[Ceremony]

At what point do we write off the season?

 

[RECKLESS]

Given how soft the Avs are, this is more scary than hopeful.

Was my initial thought and I watched the Boston-Florida game last night. That Bruins team over there sure is big n nasty, but given the schedule and them travelling to Denver we have at least the decent possibility to counter.

I guess what I'm saying is
I WANT TO BELIEVE

 

[The Moops]

At what point do we write off the season?

I did after the first pre-season game

 

[henchman21]

Was my initial thought and I watched the Boston-Florida game last night. That Bruins team over there sure is big n nasty, but given the schedule and them travelling to Denver we have at least the decent possibility to counter.

I guess what I'm saying is
I WANT TO BELIEVE

At some point, the Avs will come up with a big win. Might as well be against Boston!

 

[The Moops]

At some point, the Avs will come up with a big win. Might as well be against Boston!

Even teams like Boston will have let down games once in a while. Might as well be against us

 

[RockLobster]

At what point do we write off the season?

 

[S E P H]

To me, last night was the first truly bad game the team had defensively and they weren't horrific... just bad. All situations, the Avs sit 10th in xGA/60. That's roughly where they should probably be.

I honestly think it is undersold on how horrific the goaltending is. The Avs' GAA is 6.67. Their xGAA is 2.68. Which means they are 3.99 per game over expectation. The next worst in the league is Edmonton at 2.25. Excluding the Avs, there are only 7 other teams giving up more than 3.99 per game period. 5 of those are practically tied with it at exactly 4. Meaning only 2 teams have an actual GAA materially worse than what the Avs are giving up over expectation. Washington and Edmonton are those two teams.

I understand the analytics show the Avs' defence is a lot better than we think it is, but I just can't come to that conclusion. It has been awful since the Cup win and some of that is losing personnel as well as players being overplayed along with our system being adjusted to by opposing teams. Our defence doesn't excuse Georgiev because we agree that he is mentally broken, but I've noticed a ton more dangerous chances against him, especially off the rush than what Kuemper or Francouz have had to deal with. Most of those chances are happening when teams cycling against us.