Having the opportunity to force dallas and the mild to face each other in the first round is absolutely something and for an Avs team playing their 3rd game in 4 nights coming home after a long road trip without TWO top-4 d-men which includes the best d-man in the league AND TWO Top-6 Forwards in Lando & Leks and facing a rested edmonton team, personally I'm really proud of the way the team played tonight.
Not sure why anyone wouldn't be.
Yeah, and I also disagree that the Avs sleepwalked through the game. The Avs were battling very hard tonight. It's not like the Oilers were skating circles around them.
Like Bednar said, the high danger chances were low tonight and statistically it was 9-8 for Edmonton. They win this game on a mistake by Byram and a PPG in overtime.
The Avs played very hard tonight. The lack of talent was clearly evident as the game went on.
Yeah, the game felt like a tight checking close game the whole way and it was. Both goalies had some moments of absolute thievery too.
No kidding. Dude butchers it worse than pretty much anyone.
Someone needs to just tell him it's Nuke, move on lol.
Thought the Avs played well considering the lineup they iced. It took the Oilers everything they had to beat the Avs ‘C’ team.
Not really many negative takeaways from me on this one. Thought Lars Eller was excellent. That dude competes his ass off. He doesn’t have much skill, but damn does that guy play hard.
Girard battling like he did in the corners is a positive for the playoffs. I don’t expect him to push people around, but if he can battle and wall players off, that’s enough.
The top line had some great moments, but their inability to pot one, felt like the difference in the game.
That is one thing, for all we talk about holding their stars off, they did the same to us. I expected better, but it also goes to show Makars impact in games like this.
When the team dials in defensively, and plays the right way he's key in allowing the big guys to break free offensively.
So is Lehky when it comes to helping out the defence.
I seen responsible Avs hockey last night, with them putting work in, but we are just depleted enough we couldn't quite break it open. Edmonton was frustrated as hell.
That is a building block for the playoffs. The Dallas game was similar. They are not going to walk over most teams, so I want them playing the right way as a team and committed to it even with injuries.
I'll take the point and a step towards dialing it in.
Oh, and nice job on trolling Leon. We know they probably read it.
) I would take LA in a 7-game series as long as their goaltending holds up.
