Post-Game Talk: Avs 4 - Wild 2 || Varlamov? VARLAMOV!

[Nihiliste]

We should play Varly against the Hawks and Giggy against NJ.

 

[raistlin76]

Yup...in that case the man is doing a damn fine job.

Brown just fliped on Howard and made him off-balance I don't know how it could be called fine job by refs. I hate Wings, but this goal should have been called off

 

[raistlin76]

We should play Varly against the Hawks and Giggy against NJ.

I think we should play Jiggy against Panthers on January 24th at earliest

 

[Avs_19]

Great game for O'Reilly. Love Roy but he's a fool if he splits Duchene and O'Reilly up again. Both guys have played their best hockey this season when they're together.

EJ was great as usual.

Benoit needs to be a lot better, especially with the current condition of our defense. He made poor plays on both the Wild goals. Can't have his play drop off now.

 

[raistlin76]

Benoit needs to be a lot better, especially with the current condition of our defense. He made poor plays on both the Wild goals. Can't have his play drop off now.

And somehow he finished with 2 assist. These two points Benoit gets should belongs to EJ. He was great, really deserved to be on the scoresheet tonight.

 

[NWAvs]

Is stollery good?

 

[Avsboy]

Is stollery good?

He's too light to be good.

 

[Freudian]

Is stollery good?

Looked like a smaller Holden to me. Perhaps a little bit quicker.

 

[The Mars Volchenkov]

He's like the 11th defenseman on the depth chart. Not sure what else you can expect.

 

[GirardSpinorama]

I didn't think Stollery was THAT bad, better than Holden at least. Wilson didn't look that awful, would gladly have him over Holden. Sarich and Benoit should ideally be a bottom pairing, but I still think its Sarich that makes that pairing terrible. When healthy, I'm going with:

Hejda-EJ, Benoit-Guenin, Wilson-Barrie. With Sarich interchanging with Guenin.

 

[Avs_19]

O'Reilly is tied with Duchene for the team lead in goals. Pay the man.

 

[jaems]

Just +1'ing the RoR beautiful backhand. Where the heck did that come from...

 

[GirardSpinorama]

Just +1'ing the RoR beautiful backhand. Where the heck did that come from...

RoR has always had the hands. I mean how do you get so many beautiful take aways without having a set of magical hands (see Datsyuk). He is just finally getting his shot to use it for goal scoring.

 

[ColoradoSportsFan]

Brown just fliped on Howard and made him off-balance I don't know how it could be called fine job by refs. I hate Wings, but this goal should have been called off

Anything bad that happens to the Wings is good. This is Avs country...thems the rules.

 

[forsbergavs32]

Anything bad that happens to the Wings is good. This is Avs country...thems the rules.

Yup, horrid officiating is great as long as it only happens to other teams, there's no room for logic here, thems the rules.

 

[Pokecheque]

Eh...didn't Stollery just come back from a major injury before he got called up? Besides, a defenseman with his particular skillset isn't going to see a lot of opportunities when all they know how to do is trap, collapse, and stand in front of their goalie all game long.

Not saying he'd be a ton better had it not been for the injury, just saying it didn't help matters, nor did playing against the Minnesota Glacial Drift.

 

[Freudian]

If Wilson was just an emergency call-up and got an exception from the two week rule, does that mean that when Holden is back Avs have to send Wilson down and keep Stollery?

 

[Avs_19]

It's a maximum of 14 days for conditioning assignments but does that mean the player has to stay in the AHL for that long?

This is all I've found on it:

13.8 Conditioning Loan. Unless a Player consents, he shall not be Loaned on a Conditioning Loan to a minor league club. Such Conditioning Loan shall not extend for more than fourteen (14) consecutive days. The Commissioner may take whatever steps he deems necessary to investigate the circumstances under which a Player is Loaned on a Conditioning Loan. If the Commissioner has reason to believe or determines that the Club has used the Conditioning Loan to evade the Re-Entry Waivers, or otherwise Circumvent any provision of this Agreement, he may take such disciplinary action against the Club, as he deems appropriate. The Player shall continue, during the period of such Conditioning Loan, to receive the same Paragraph 1 NHL Salary, and be entitled to the same benefits, that he would have received had he continued to play with the Club.

 

[the_fan]

It's mind boggling Avs have 61 points and they would be the 2nd place team in the east with that defense.

 

[Hans Landaskog]

It's mind boggling Avs have 61 points and they would be the 2nd place team in the east with that defense.

Because EJ is a monster.

 

[Crossfire Hurricane]

It's mind boggling Avs have 61 points and they would be the 2nd place team in the east with that defense.

If the Avs were in the East and playing against Eastern teams all the time, they'd have about 80 points and be leading the league right now.

 

[a mangy Meowth]

So proud of this team. 45 games in and we're keeping up with the Sharks and Kings and Canucks, very very impressive to me. Hope they can keep it up, as this is the part of the season where it gets even tougher.

 

[Nihiliste]

So proud of this team. 45 games in and we're keeping up with the Sharks and Kings and Canucks, very very impressive to me. Hope they can keep it up, as this is the part of the season where it gets even tougher.

The Olympic break might help us get some bodies back which would be huge down the stretch.

 

[GirardSpinorama]

McLeod has been really bad the last few weeks, I think it might be time Malone gets a bigger role than him.

 

[crue7]

McLeod has been really bad the last few weeks, I think it might be time Malone gets a bigger role than him.

Malone has been the more effective player honestly.