GDT: Game 12: The Wild Vs Father Time, and the Avs | 6:00pm MT | October 27th 2018

[Balthazar]

Ehh. I’m not really worried about Minnesota in the standings. If there is anything you can count on in the NHL, it’s Minnesota being mediocre.

Well if they are stealing a playoff spot they are a big obstacle for a playoff bubble team like us.

 

[The Kingslayer]

The Quenneville quote in regards to two man advantages... That's a big reason why we lost. Not the refs, not Bednars dumb decision at the end. The pp killed us plus no secondary scoring yet again.

 

[Avsavsavsavsavs]

Get a nice little break between the next stretch of games, hopefully we get JT back and work on some of the PP kinks, I think the boys deserved a point here but like others have said, we're not gonna win every game the rest of the way just stings a little more cause its the mild.

 

[kchan9]

Wilds a bunch of pieces of crap. The Zadorov call was terrible but not as terrible as Bednar pulling Varly with almost 3 min left and one goal down. Terrible. Ugh

 

[Balthazar]

Anyone else think there's something bothering MacK? He's been cruising a lot more than I can recall him doing from last season. He'll engage every now and again, but a good chunk of the time he's floating it seems

He could be saving energy for exploding in bursts.

 

[BleedWell]

All three of MacK, Mikko, and Barrie are holding the puck too long, and on top of it not placing their ****ing passes so they can get one-time passes or shots off.

Last night they scored because one touch passes resulted one quick shots or one-timers.

MacK's one-time shot is dead right now because Barrie can only put it in his feet. Also I can tell 5 seconds before they pass it who they are moving it too next.

That is pretty accurate description of our power play. It's too stellar and slow. They have to get back in their last year's form. It was way more agressive.

 

[BaconNater]

Also on the PP Barrie needs to stop winding up and firing from the blue line, good things rarely happen from that.

Wild one step closer to that first round exit!

 

[Avs]

Well if they are stealing a playoff spot they are a big obstacle for a playoff bubble team like us.

I don’t think they make the playoffs. But u right

 

[forsbergavs32]

Probably just tired this game, I wouldn't read much into it after a B2B. He was everywhere last game and IIRC he played ~24 minutes - that's a lot of ice time for a forward.

At least they get a few days off now to rest. Hopefully some injured guys make progress.

On that note, any idea what's up with Z?

 

[Balthazar]

Dater is acting like the bad call on Z is the only bad call in history. Ref misinterpreted what happened, we see it all the time.

 

[Avsboy]

Barrie keeps doing the wind up slap shot. It's not working. They should try closing on the slot from the back end and getting some tippable wristers or more accurate shots on net.

 

[Muffin]

We should have at least had someone sit back in their own end if you decide to pull your goalie...

 

[Avs]

Also on the PP Barrie needs to stop winding up and firing from the blue line, good things rarely happen from that.

Wild one step closer to that first round exit!

That’s what baffled me. It seemed like we were teeing up from the blue line more on the 5-on-3 and driving the net more on the 5-on-4 after that. Everything about out PP seemed backwards

 

[Balthazar]

Barrie keeps doing the wind up slap shot. It's not working.

Not sure why he's doing that, he's telegraphing the play for nothing. Does he think he's Shea Weber?

Barrie had success with wrist shots in front of the net....just put it there and go for a deflection.

 

[AvsFanInMichigan]

Did anyone else catch Kerfoot getting dragged down on that 6 on 4 didn’t even notice it until they showed it postgame and Bednar talked about it.

 

[BaconNater]

My proposed powerplay setup from yesterday would have changed everything!

 

[Avs_19]

Did anyone else catch Kerfoot getting dragged down on that 6 on 4 didn’t even notice it until they showed it postgame and Bednar talked about it.

He's not wrong but he really should've just waited a few more seconds. Have Varly half way out if you really want to and once you have control of the faceoff, get the sixth attacker out there. There really was no need to start with the empty net with almost three minutes left on the clock and an entire PP to work with, especially when you know the team is really poor on faceoffs.

 

[AvsFanInMichigan]

He's not wrong but he really should've just waited a few more seconds. Have Varly half way out if you really want to and once you have control of the faceoff, get the six attacker out there. There really was no need to start with the empty net with almost three minutes left on the clock and an entire PP to work with, especially when you know the team is really poor on faceoffs.

Agree 100%

 

[Balthazar]

He's not wrong but he really should've just waited a few more seconds. Have Varly half way out if you really want to and once you have control of the faceoff, get the six attacker out there. There really was no need to start with the empty net with almost three minutes left on the clock and an entire PP to work with, especially when you know the team is really poor on faceoffs.

I honestly don't think he'll do that again.

 

[AvsFan29]

Out of the top 10 teams, 5 are in the Central, 4 are in the Atlantic, 1 in the Metro, zero in the Pacific.

 

[PAZ]

Bednar pulling the goalie early isn't the reason we lost. We only scored that second goal because we had an extra attacker, which also came from a faceoff.

 

[CobraAcesS]

I honestly don't think he'll do that again.

Hopefully, but it was dumb enough to do it once. Especially when all of us yahoos instantly gasped pretty much at the same time when they said the goalie was being pulled. I'm having a really hard time getting over it lol. My hatred for Bednar has only too recently subsided.

 

[Spleenless Wonder21]

At a drunken, Halloween eff fest, thus, sadly, all I can offer by way of unconstrucive criticism after this loss to the Mild is:

 

[AllAboutAvs]

With the faceoffs record we have Bednar has to wait until we get possession before pulling Varly. Very bad decision. We could haave maybe get out of there with at least one point. Ah well I prefer the win against OTT and the loss on the second game of a B2B even if it's against the Mild then the other way around. They still had a pretty good game.

I can't believe how slow EJ's decision making has become in the offensive zone. He doesn't even dangled the puck. He just stand there or glide with the puck and his stick not even moving looking up and waiting too long to make a play. He has got to react faster than that.

 

[FreshFitted67]

Okay there’s been a lot of talk about the whole face-off situation.

Someone posted something the other day some stats and an article that shows the face-off thing isn’t as important as we might think. But tonight made it extremely clear that we have to do something about the face offs.

That lost faceoff on the 6 on 4 with the goalie pulled led directly to the winning goal. So that lost faceoff pretty clearly directly affected the outcome of this game, and potentially lost us 1 or 2 points here...

Mackinnon is strong, fast, and skilled. There is no reason why he shouldn’t be able to win a reasonable amount of faceoffs.

We have a lot of other things to work on, but I’m sick and tired of years of faceoff ineptitude.

Put Mackinnon through 1 hour of faceoff drills and lessons every practise until this gets fixed.

It should be so simple.