Avs gave this game away again. Tampa didn’t deserve to win on multiple levels.
They continue to gang up on and scream at the officials every game without getting penalties. They get lucky bounces off the glass then off the shoulder for a goal. Stamkos and Kucherov cherry picking all night and getting rewarded for it. Passing up the empty net down a goal with over a minute left, just to give Mr Selfish Kucherov another goal.
Meanwhile Nate probably breaks his nose again off a crazy high speed deflection. Then he takes another puck in the face his first shift back. Then in the third, Cernak punches him in the face in the corner.
What a contrast in fortune. Poor guy has the worst luck with his nose, going back to that crazy hit by Hall.
Not sure why Tampa is still allowed to use the old glass either. Clearly it gives them an unfair advantage, and they practice those plays off the glass, and then look for them during games.
All that said, self inflicted, preventable mistakes did the Avs in again.
Second goal, Nate for some reason stopped skating when he could he could have got to the loose puck in the D zone, then Toews turns the puck over in front of his net and it’s in the back of the net.
Love the way Colton plays but he seemed to only be thinking about scoring on his old team and not playing the right way. Tying and GWG were on him. Turned the puck over on the third goal, passing right to Tampa with no Avs around while Stamkos was cherry picking, then bailed the zone trying to cherry pick himself and left his man Kucherov wide open for the GWG.
Bo with another really good game, and it comes while he's playing aggressively on his toes. He must have X ray vision in this arena to see all these pucks that nobody else sees. Only a real gamer keeps playing to the whislte like that too and finds a way to use put the puck in with both feet behind the goal line.
Thought Annunen played pretty well. Goes to show how unpredictable goaltending is, because the first shift of the game he let a slow moving puck get past him behind the net, then on the first shot he faced, he gave up a rebound on a long distance, unscreened wrister from the point. I thought he was on his way to giving up a blowout, but he refocused, beared down, and found his game afterwards.
This former Stanley Cup winning team is gonna have to learn from their rookie goaltender, and do the same after all these losses.
