GDT: Avalanche vs Stars, Round 2, Game 6, 5/17/24 @8:00PM MNT: I don't wanna golf yet!

[Balthazar]

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

Second time Girard’s been on the ice in OT to end our season against Dallas.

Eh, I thought G was one of our more consistently good players in this series

 

[NOTENOUGHRYJOTHINGS]

I just can’t trust Georgiev going into next season. What’s wrong with his fundamentals? He looks wack even when he’s making the saves.

When did he start thinking he’s Hasek? He certainly wasn’t like that last year.

Georgie is the least of their problems this series. Probably not good enough to win a cup with. But there are so many bigger issues.

 

[Mooserton]

Eh, I thought G was one of our more consistently good players in this series

Agreed he was just fine.

 

[sethro109]

Second time Girard’s been on the ice in OT to end our season against Dallas.

He was one of the few bright spots in this series. Walker and JJ were beyond dreadful. Manson was Jekyll and Hyde.

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

Even if he truly believes that, a good chunk of that roster will not be here next year due tot he cap

 

[Muffin]

I mean at the end of the day we were in every game save for game 4. We had chances to end it in OT and couldn’t do it. Lehkonen is supposed to be clutch but he couldn’t make a play in OT.

 

[the_fan]

Gotta do something with the whole Val situation. Can’t have that distraction for another year. If they decide to keep him, it’s probably gonna be a mistake and everyone is gonna wonder if Val is gonna do this shit during another playoff run. That’s the biggest offseason issue for the Avs IMO

 

[Avsfan1921]

Weirdly, I never seem to be mad after an elimination. I am supremely disappointed however. Such a rollercoaster of a season with still so many unanswered questions. Hate how they played most of this series. Not too many sure firepositives to take at the moment. Girard, mitts, George, played better than a lot figured I would guess so that’s a positive. The team’s demeanour as a whole is horrid though. Infighting, pouting, drama all season long. Something needs to change fairly drastically in the locker room imo.

 

[wayninja]

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

Gotta do something with the whole Val situation. Can’t have that distraction for another year. If they decide to keep him, it’s probably gonna be a mistake and everyone is gonna wonder if Val is gonna do this shit during another playoff run. That’s the biggest offseason issue for the Avs IMO

As great as Nuke is on the ice, i don’t think you can remotely rely on him and I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s burned all the bridges with his teammates. It’s similar to the Landy situation, I think the team needs to prepare as if those guys won’t be here

 

[sethro109]

Gotta do something with the whole Val situation. Can’t have that distraction for another year. If they decide to keep him, it’s probably gonna be a mistake and everyone is gonna wonder if Val is gonna do this shit during another playoff run. That’s the biggest offseason issue for the Avs IMO

Even if he stays clean, he'll be one poppy seed muffin away from f***ing us. I also don't believe he can stay clean. He loves Coke and Hookers. Sounds like a blast, but it's f***ing this franchise over.

 

[dahrougem2]

That Blues team wasn't that great.

Are you serious? Just because their regular season was almost their undoing due to trash goaltending doesn't mean a roster which had O'Reilly, Tarasenko, Perron, Schenn, Schwartz, Thomas, Barbashev, Steen, and Sundqvist with Pietrangelo, Dunn, Parayko, and Bouwmeester on D wasn't a very deep, very structured roster.

1C who had an elite playoff run, elite 1D, depth down the middle and on D, and a goalie getting hot at the perfect time.

Who else you got.

 

[Mooserton]

Weirdly, I never seem to be mad after an elimination. I am supremely disappointed however. Such a rollercoaster of a season with still so many unanswered questions. Hate how they played most of this series. Not too many sure firepositives to take at the moment. Girard, mitts, George, played better than a lot figured I would guess so that’s a positive. The team’s demeanour as a whole is horrid though. Infighting, pouting, drama all season long. Something needs to change fairly drastically in the locker room imo.

I think Landeskog will help there--Makar and MacKinnon tried and I think they made strides as leaders this season but they're still not Landy. Granted, I don't actually know what's going on behind closed doors can only speculate on what I can see.

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

Weirdly, I never seem to be mad after an elimination. I am supremely disappointed however. Such a rollercoaster of a season with still so many unanswered questions. Hate how they played most of this series. Not too many sure firepositives to take at the moment. Girard, mitts, George, played better than a lot figured I would guess so that’s a positive. The team’s demeanour as a whole is horrid though. Infighting, pouting, drama all season long. Something needs to change fairly drastically in the locker room imo.

I’m in the same boat as you, not actually mad they lost, just disappointed. Also agree that something needs to change in that locker room, feels like there’s a massive leadership void and the guys we would want to step into those roles may not actually be good candidates for that

 

[Muffin]

Don’t think a lot of us are mad. Pretty sure most of us mentally already checked out when they went down 1-3.

 

[wayninja]

Don’t think a lot of us are mad. Pretty sure most of us mentally already checked out when they went down 1-3.

Maybe it's all the beer, but I'm pretty f***ing mad

 

[sethro109]

Are you serious? Just because their regular season was almost their undoing due to trash goaltending doesn't mean a roster which had O'Reilly, Tarasenko, Perron, Schenn, Schwartz, Thomas, Barbashev, Steen, and Sundqvist with Pietrangelo, Dunn, Parayko, and Bouwmeester on D wasn't a very deep, very structured roster.

1C who had an elite playoff run, elite 1D, depth down the middle and on D, and a goalie getting hot at the perfect time.

Who else you got.

That team was shit. It took Billy-f***-face-iton getting hot for them to win the cup. They used their size to bully everyone. They had a coach that knew how to get what he needed out of them.

 

[Vaslof]

Don’t think a lot of us are mad. Pretty sure most of us mentally already checked out when they went down 1-3.

I didn't check out, and things were actually looking pretty bright until around third period today. We were on our way to Game 7 with momentum. But the way we played the 3rd period and two OT's, I can't be mad at getting eliminated. Would be more mad if we played really well and the Stars lucked out a 2-1 win or something.

 

[wayninja]

 

[Avaholic19]

I thought dallas winning would squelch the whining about the gi goal but it seems dallas fans are still talking about it.

 

[JudoKoala]

Eh, I thought G was one of our more consistently good players in this series

We always used to shit on him for being a ragdoll; this year he was continually making others his ragdoll.

 

[the_fan]

Even if he stays clean, he'll be one poppy seed muffin away from f***ing us. I also don't believe he can stay clean. He loves Coke and Hookers. Sounds like a blast, but it's f***ing this franchise over.

As great as Nuke is on the ice, i don’t think you can remotely rely on him and I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s burned all the bridges with his teammates. It’s similar to the Landy situation, I think the team needs to prepare as if those guys won’t be here

Yeah but again, what can you do with Val’s contract ? If he completes the program, he’s gonna be added to the roster. Landy is not the same, he either gets healthy and plays, or we can keep him on LTIR.

 

[The Moops]

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Glad you're back to your old avatar. Could hardly recognize you without it

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

I was angry last year when they lost to Seattle. Almost entirely at our management for doing f*** all and wasting a prime contender year and the chance to go B2B.

Not angry at all this year. Probably because most of that anger was spent before Game 4 when the Nichushkin news broke. I said it 4 days ago that the moment that news dropped, our season ended essentially. Val was simply way too important of a player for this team to overcome his loss at this stage of the year.

They gave a hell of an effort to try and battle back, but without Val Dallas was simply a better team.

Now I'm just ready to resolve the Val situation, get our Captain back, and find out just how big of an impact his presence will have on this group next year.