How long will that take to clean off the ice? This off-season has been long enough.
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How long will that take to clean off the ice? This off-season has been long enough.
Gigantor The Goalie
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bromando
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Ovechkin had 51 goals alone though...
nvm...didn't realize it was just 5v5. My bad
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wild will go with this: Minnesotan kokoonpano Colorado-otteluun:
Parise-Granlund-Pominville
Cooke-Koivu-Vanek
Niederreiter-Haula-Coyle
Zucker-Brodziak-Carter
Suter-Brodin
Scandella-Spurgeon
Dumba-Folin
Kuemper (Bäckström)
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Parise-Granlund-Pominville
Cooke-Koivu-Vanek
Niederreiter-Haula-Coyle
Zucker-Brodziak-Carter
Suter-Brodin
Scandella-Spurgeon
Dumba-Folin
Kuemper (Bäckström)
Lähteet: Startribune.com
shadow1
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Hannan is still in the NHL, he played last night.
Colorado was sporting an older team at that point, trying to get the most out of Sakic's final years. The team looks bad on paper now but were considered dark horses for the cup; Sakic was coming off 100 points, Smyth off a big year, Budaj off 30 wins, etc.
I actually think that's solid roster. Playoff team. Goaltending was huge weakness though.
Chileiceman
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Minnesota is stacked up front. Here we are sending out McLoeod and Cliche again. I thought we wanted more depth. Just look at their third line! Holy bananas. Of course they have Cooke up at the second line so it balances itself out a bit.
Freudian
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To be fair, McLeod and Cliche are on the fourth and not the third line this time around.
McGinn/Talbot/Briere is an odd third line, but it might turn out to be decent.
Well, we do have two injuries to two of our better depth players, but Minnesota has better depth players anyway. Minnesota is healthy, outside of Fontaine, I believe.
Actually, 07-08 still had Theo between the pipes, so it really wasn't. It was 08-09 that had Boods/Raycroft that earned the Avs the right to pick Duchene. I'm not saying Theo was elite or anything at that point but he wasn't the team's most glaring weakness. That D was slow, not savvy enough with the puck, and just plain not nearly talented enough. Good enough to make the playoff maybe (which they did) but not much past that.
agentblack
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They always are. The ********
.(well except for Harding that is)
I will never understand why that word is censored.
Yup. It is. That third line alone will be giving the Avs all kinds of fits on the forecheck.
However, that goaltending tandem might be good enough to beat the Avs, but it won't be good enough to beat the NHL's elite.
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Their defense is also pretty weak after the top pairing. Suter hides a lot of their issues there.
Avs44
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That offence is ridiculous, particularly the third line.
The defense and goaltending may be suspect. If Suter ever goes down they are well and truly screwed. They rely on him to carry the defence for half the game.
I'd say Brodin does a lot to hide Suter's issues.
And as much as we made fun of Like a Spurgeon and his broken ankles, he had the last laugh in the final playoff game. They better be relentless on him in the attacking zone.
tigervixxxen
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I'd say Brodin does a lot to hide Suter's issues.
I'd say you're in the minority there. Maybe even on an island all by yourself. Suter is a top 5 defenseman.
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I'd say Brodin does a lot to hide Suter's issues.
And as much as we made fun of Like a Spurgeon and his broken ankles, he had the last laugh in the final playoff game. They better be relentless on him in the attacking zone.
Yeesh... not a Suter fan? Without Suter, Minnesota's defense might be the worst in the league. Luckily for them, they have him on the ice for 30 minutes a game.
I know I'm in the minority. For the record, I've never even really glanced at his fancy stats, but I've seen him get burned a LOT 1-on-1 during his Nashville days (other things also stuck out, but it was those instances that really looked glaring to me), so while I think he's an ace puckmover and certainly good defensively, I disagree with the majority of people who say he's elite. Top-pairing guy for sure, but I don't think he's up there with the Keiths and Webers of the NHL. I most certainly wouldn't put him in top 5.
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