GDT: Avalanche @ Maple Leafs 1/13/24 @ 5:00PM MNT (Emergency GDT)

[Balthazar]

 

[TheGrimReaper]

looks like I missed a nail biter / great comeback Avalanche win

highlights showed some savvy heart by the lads

on a side note: over this past summer I have made a good friend , non other than " The Destroyer " , Zennon Kanopka

He tells me that face off's and fighting were his strengths as a player in the NHL

He's attempting to make arrangements with CMac ( knew him from his Sarycuse (sp) days ) to perhaps help with improving face off strategies.

We shall see.

 

[Colorado Avalanche]

Well done. Well done.

 

[The Kingslayer]

Hehe what a game.

 

[BrickNHL]

I missed the game but how do you lose to a team with LOC and Kiviranta on their 2nd line? Polin on the 3rd line? Macdermid and Caleb Jones as the 4th line wingers?

That’s embarrassing

 

[Snow Arc]

Threads would be a lot less insufferable if those who live and die by every goal would just follow through with it already.

*takes notes*

 

[missionAvs]

What a comeback. Hell f***ing yeah. MacK wills it!

 

[wayninja]

I get the jokes, and probably mockworthy take... but LOC is a second line player.

 

[The Merchant]

What a comeback. Hell f***ing yeah. MacK wills it!

Him and Bedsy must've had a Hart to Hart between the 2nd and 3rd

 

[The Kingslayer]

Cant fault George on those goals but holy hell guy dial in those f***in rebounds. So many needless chances because he cant control rebounds. He was otherwise excellent tonight especially when it was 3-0 he didnt give up the next one and the Leafs had some nice chances.

Every Avs goal tonight was hilarious.

Ross Colton is an idiot. How do you miss that first one that badly as a pro. He made up for it thanks to RyJo being very unselfish.

Drouin just keeps doing it. Imagine if he turns out like Nuke. A guy left for dead and revives his career in Denver. Drouin turning into a player the Avs can rely on to support the big boys on a 2-3 yr discount type deal would be huge. I wouldnt blame him for chasing a bag but it be nice if he took the lowball offer hes likely to get from CMac. Also, credit CMac for this. He whiffed on Ryjo and Tatar but hes hit on Wood, Colton and Drouin.

 

[expatriatedtexan]

Cant fault George on those goals but holy hell guy dial in those f***in rebounds. So many needless chances because he cant control rebounds. He was otherwise excellent tonight especially when it was 3-0 he didnt give up the next one and the Leafs had some nice chances.

Every Avs goal tonight was hilarious.

Ross Colton is an idiot. How do you miss that first one that badly as a pro. He made up for it thanks to RyJo being very unselfish.

Drouin just keeps doing it. Imagine if he turns out like Nuke. A guy left for dead and revives his career in Denver. Drouin turning into a player the Avs can rely on to support the big boys on a 2-3 yr discount type deal would be huge. I wouldnt blame him for chasing a bag but it be nice if he took the lowball offer hes likely to get from CMac. Also, credit CMac for this. He whiffed on Ryjo and Tatar but hes hit on Wood, Colton and Drouin.

I'm still torn on this. I want to know who it was that brought RyJo up first? Was it the pro-scouts or was it CMac?

 

[BrickNHL]

I'm still torn on this. I want to know who it was that brought RyJo up first? Was it the pro-scouts or was it CMac?

I want an apology from whoever it was

 

[the_fan]

I'm still torn on this. I want to know who it was that brought RyJo up first? Was it the pro-scouts or was it CMac?

Probably CMac. He was desperate finding a 2C without giving up too much. For some reason this team doesn’t think 2C position is too important. They lucked out on Kadri though, now just need to find another Naz

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

Dont look now, but Mackinnon is 49.1% on the faceoff dot.


That alone might be enough for the Hart for him

 

[drhiii]

Cant fault George on those goals but holy hell guy dial in those f***in rebounds. So many needless chances because he cant control rebounds. He was otherwise excellent tonight especially when it was 3-0 he didnt give up the next one and the Leafs had some nice chances.

Every Avs goal tonight was hilarious.

Ross Colton is an idiot. How do you miss that first one that badly as a pro. He made up for it thanks to RyJo being very unselfish.

Drouin just keeps doing it. Imagine if he turns out like Nuke. A guy left for dead and revives his career in Denver. Drouin turning into a player the Avs can rely on to support the big boys on a 2-3 yr discount type deal would be huge. I wouldnt blame him for chasing a bag but it be nice if he took the lowball offer hes likely to get from CMac. Also, credit CMac for this. He whiffed on Ryjo and Tatar but hes hit on Wood, Colton and Drouin.

"rebounds" kept ringing in my head.. all game. All season(s).

 

[atreyuavenged]

Feels like the boys are saving it for the playoffs. They'll turn it on a bit to win games.

Nate might be going a bit hard for some hardware. Hard to say.

 

[Colorado Avalanche]

I missed the game but how do you lose to a team with LOC and Kiviranta on their 2nd line? Polin on the 3rd line? Macdermid and Caleb Jones as the 4th line wingers?

That’s embarrassing

Leafs D and G are brutal

 

[AVSfan2daMAX]

Rantanen with one his best showings in a while. He was engaged and winning board battles all game. When he plays like that, he can dominate shifts by himself.

 

[Gigantor The Goalie]

Do you think Terry Sawchuk would thrive in today's league?
@Gigantor The Goalie

Put him behind Carolina and why not!

 

[littletonhockeycoach]

Perhaps… but it sounds like the rest of the league already knows what we need and how desperate our needs are. At least according to some NHL insiders.

Remember that your trading partner is also dealing with constraints, salary issues, cap issues, player/agent demands too.

It's not like it's all a one way street and CMac is the hostage tied to the train track.

Rantanen with one his best showings in a while. He was engaged and winning board battles all game. When he plays like that, he can dominate shifts by himself.

He trips, stumbles and falls like no one else in the NHL and still scores.

Imagine what he could do if he could actually skate........

 

[dahrougem2]

I can't be the only one who almost pissed myself laughing seeing "PP2" take the ice with Ryan Johansen, Logan O'Connor, and Jason Polin on it lmfao

 

[JudoKoala]

First post of 2024, Happy New Year! Made my annual trip to the arena with my boy tonight for a good ol' fashioned comeback... I wish I could dunk on Leafs fans more but they're always super cool and friendly to me at games and are entirely self-aware of their franchise's follies... Even when they were up 3-0 some of them were straight-up saying it means nothing because "these are the Leafs," Lol... Tough to hate on fans like that, it's always a good time at the arena... Anyway, awesome night, happy to be back, hope everyone has had a lovely start to their new year

 

[LOFIN]

 

[JudoKoala]

I mean, it is rather disgusting and unfair in all the best ways

 

[the_fan]

I missed the game but how do you lose to a team with LOC and Kiviranta on their 2nd line? Polin on the 3rd line? Macdermid and Caleb Jones as the 4th line wingers?

That’s embarrassing

3 words. Nathan MacKinnon!