Half-Assed GDT: AVS BLUES: Oh Hey, Look Another game Tonight.

[Nederlander]

on a slewfoot too

That is definitely a slew foot. We played a very strong game. Our lack of PP goals killed us. Too much passing, lack of one timer, no one crashing the net. Hate the Avalanche -- the penalty shot and the slew foot on Faulk show the Refalanche is alive and well. Hope anyone but them wins the Cup this year.

 

[BlueOil]

not a bad game all things considered, thomas and binner were on point, the rest were between meh and good

if buch or the powerplay could've converted, the blues would've won this game

 

[Blueston]

I think we are burying lede. We played great but our 2d looked to have suffered significant leg injury. I feared it was bad when he struggled to get to bench and ignored puck. Faulk had to be in bad way to do that. And to leave him behind to evaluate is ominous. If he is back in a month will feel like we lucked out.

 

[Ted Hoffman]

on a slewfoot too

Not a slewfoot. Manson never moved his foot.

Last night shows the difference in quality between us and other teams. Yes, we played a great defensive game, shut down the top line and all, but truthfully Colorado played about 8 minutes of that game and still came out with a victory. I watched that game and couldn't figure out what the Avalanche were doing for long stretches; it was like they were trying to put in the bare minimum amount of effort into winning. Which, they finally did.

5-2 under Bannister, only one really bad game and then about 2/3rds of one vs. Chicago. Encouraging [best-case right now, we're staring at the 1WC spot and hoping Dallas passes Colorado because that's been a good matchup for us; PP is better at 4-20 (20%), PK is better at 13-15 (86.7% and another SHG)], and yet potentially discouraging [getting toward the playoffs means we could be continuing to try and paper over things for longer; also means we could stay in the mushy middle for longer with high teens draft picks hoping for magic there]. But, there's still half a season to go and lots of time for this to go sideways, and now we'll see how we play when we're missing a key guy in the lineup for a bit.

 

[BlueOil]

 

[Blueston]

Thanks. Not really a surprise, with only Parayko available as a RHD.

 

[Celtic Note]

At least we get a look at Kessel.

 

[TheDizee]

Whatever happened to Rosen?

 

[Snubbed4Vezina]

Whatever happened to Rosen?

He's playing for Springfield.