Vaslof
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Edmonton bolstering defense? Never!
Edmonton bolstering defense? Never!
Not on the blue line and lazy checking by the forwards (as a whole) hurts them even more although they did a good job of stopping Avs passes across the middle.Edmonton bolstering defense? Never!
The Avs timed the trade!none of that stuff about RyJo can be true - the NHL has a rigorous program to investigate and validate injuries to make sure teams aren't circumventing the cap. Just look at Vegas.
My hero
I love this man, he's gonna milk the hell out of this minor injury
Feels like an 'after the fact - difficult to disprove' garbage by elliotte.Edmonton bolstering defense? Never!
All season long in Philly, he could be counted on for good decisions like the ones you refer to. It's not like he does it every game, not nearly that...but he certainly steps up and makes a big difference at times. I think he's learned how to time things, relative to his skills + opportunity...Lord knows it takes defencemen a long time to get it all straight...their best defensive and offensive positioning... in the NHL.Even for an Avs defenseman, Walker is just insanely aggressive offensively. Both of his goals last night were the result of him barreling headlong into a place where he wasn't expected to be. That's awesome, but I have to wonder if that will burn us a time or two going forward. The Avs forwards are really good about covering for them in those situations, but even if they get into the proper position to replace him, forwards are usually not as good as defending off the rush as defensemen are, and having a forward back on D is usually something an opposing player is going to look to exploit.
So far he's making good decisions about when to make those aggressive moves, I just hope that pattern holds true.
Is there something new that's come up?RyJo hates Torts so bad lol
fire CMacVery disappointed in Walker. CMac made a bad decision with RyJo and made another one with Walker.
Those 2 mistakes costed a 1st round pick.
In retrospect, probably should have added whatever else Calgary wanted to the first and RyJo that were on the table.I thought Walker was okay, Tanev would have won us the series, if only because he wouldn't have stopped MacK lol
Yeah I think Walker was fine. He's a plus if he's on your 3rd pair but on a 2nd pair he's a lower level guy. In the end I don't think he's worth bringing back though.Walker was fine quite frankly. Maybe you would have hoped he could step his game up another level in the playoffs, but he played the role of a solid puck moving 4/5 just fine.
Girard was clearly better though, and for my money easily earned that 2LD spot over Walker next year(Not that it was really a competition realistically, Walker was always a pure rental IMO).
Give Behrens and/or Malinski a good long look next year. Between those two I have hopes one of them will replace the loss of Walker in that similar bottom pairing PMD role.