It would have looked a lot different had the top line finished some of their chances. Allen was doing no look grabs of the puck with his toes as they were sliding towards the goal line lol. Oh and if we could stop taking penalties in the offensive zone..
I don't have a problem with how they played, but I don't think they held their composure either. The energy and push back was nice, but they need to learn how to do it without ****ing themselves over. I wouldn't say they were pushed around by any means, but they were sucked into a game where the next hit seemed more important than the next goal.
Could have gone after JVR.And that's where I'd like for the Avs to figure out a way to generate more traffic in front of the net and get a guy who's specialty is to pounce on rebounds and deflect shots.
To their credit they really are generating more traffic and sending people in to crash the net but their offense doesn't have the luxury of a true net-front presence, like, say, a Wayne Simmonds. And if a defense is particularly good at boxing out/blocking shots/clearing rebounds then the Avs D, which is very dependent on generating shots from high and snipes from the slot and tops of the circle, gets stymied. They've run into this problem with STL and also had a hell of a time against DAL as well right up until the end (and both the 2nd and 3rd goals by the Avs were of the pure garbage/blue collar variety. That's all a team like that'll give you). They're too dependent on shooting from distance and when that's gets shut down effectively, they get pretty pretty damned flustered.
Seriously though, remember how automatic Marek Svatos was? And that's because dude could hold his own in the slot and was phenomenal at pouncing on rebounds. You can't teach that. I see guys like Jost TRY to be that type of forward, but he's way, way too slow to react and can't fight his way to loose pucks in the slot like Svats did. That's why I'd like for the Avs to make a priority of getting that guy. Simmonds himself is probably too old, but there are others out there who fit the bill...or I suppose Cam Morrison could be the answer from within, but I doubt he makes the NHL.
Not really. Why? Goalies league wide are doing this routinely.
And if your hoping jost can reach the levels of Simmonds ect for that presence you will be very disappointed hes more of a smaller two way winger like a small toews on wing.
Not shocked. Shouldnt have even been a misconduct.Doesn't look like anything happened with EJ. Fantastic news
I agree but Steen got what he deserved , good on EJImo he was already committed to the hit when he was bent over. It doesn't look great, but I don't think he did it with intent to injure or anything close to that.
Yet Grubauer save % is .904 and goals against 3.06I just looked at the league leaders in save %. Do you realize that all 30 qualifiers have a save percentage over .900? Everything favors the goalies these days. You could put a corpse in goalie equipment and it will probably have a save % of at least .870. Moreover, are you aware that the 15th best qualifier has a % of .922? Given that for every winner there’s a loser. .919 puts him in the bottom half. And in the case of this game, Allen’s save % puts him in the top half. Not only is .919 not that great but if you look at the bad goals, it looks even worse.
Yet Grubauer save % is .904 and goals against 3.06
Was Zadorov's big hit on Scheifele a couple of years ago illegal? Scheifele was leaning forward and Z's shoulder hit his head initially. The league did not impose any supplemental discipline in that case.
What hearing?
Erik Johnson - Colorado Avalanche - 2018 Player Profile - Rotoworld.com
I guess there was no hearing.
Erik Johnson - Colorado Avalanche - 2018 Player Profile - Rotoworld.com
I guess there was no hearing.