AvsFan29
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GDT: Game 68: Avs @ Stars | 6:30 PM MT | March 7, 2019 | Steers and Stars
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That was way to easy for Dallas. Did anyone notice that guy on Dallas without a visor. That one guy that gives the little extra cross check. That guy that got into Mac and mikkos head. Benn is old school and he drove our only line crazy. Blues showed the league how to beat the avalanche and it worked again tonight. I know the "new" nhl fans are going to give me a rash of crap but this team needs some muscle. our fourth lines sucks anyways might as well have someone there so Mac does not have to fight his own battle.
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Sshhh! Kroenke has the Rams, Nuggets (who will never win a title in the current nbLame major market power structure, sans producing a home grown super star), & Arsenal to focus on!
On November 30, 2018, the Avs were 4th in the NHL in the standings with 35 points in 26 games. In their last 42 games, they have 35 points.
If that is not a ground to fire someone, I don't know anymore. This organization is inept.
SoundwaveIsCharisma
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What are you talking about, he didn’t get a fair shake. Clearly he will do better next season...or the season after that, maybe the one after that?
19 years to be exact. Close enough. Pierre Lacroix, as successful as he was, left this organization in shambles, and the Avs have never reestablished themselves as a competent organization since. How long is it gonna take (another 20...er...19 years) before the Avs front office finally realizes that you can’t build a contender with a couple of star players, a handful of decent players, and half a roster of talentless no-counts?
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No, but he did almost smirk at the start after being asked how he thought the game went.
Funny enough, that was probably our best start in the last several games but by far our worst game overall in those games.
AvsMakar08
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When do you think Avs will start to tank to get another top 10 pick? All other teams fighting for playoffs won today.
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He knows he's done.
He's a good guy and I like him as a person. I hope he finds another job in the NHL, probably as an assistant coach somewhere else.
This is all just an elaborate set up to have us make the playoffs on the last game of the season again! Boy are they fooling you guys
Sheesh. Looks like I missed a stinker. Only caught the first period but had other things to take care of.
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Just a hockeygame of men against little boys...
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AvsFan29
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I just don't know what makes this team tick. You'd think that playing in this type of game would bring out the best in our guys, but no.
Even if you're not as good as the other team, you can still give a good effort, which simply wasn't there.
I don't even know who to blame at this point, coaching? Bad players? Core players? Not the right combo? Loser mentality? Management?
I'm just so sick and tired of losing, and watching the same season unfold practically every year. It's getting really old. And quite frankly I'm just disappointed more than anything. I expect a certain level of compete and professional pride from professional athletes and over the past 10 years that level hasn't been close to being met. I'm not asking for championship runs every season, I just want a fun team that goes out and competes hard and has winning/positive seasons more than once or twice a decade.
Even if you're not as good as the other team, you can still give a good effort, which simply wasn't there.
I don't even know who to blame at this point, coaching? Bad players? Core players? Not the right combo? Loser mentality? Management?
I'm just so sick and tired of losing, and watching the same season unfold practically every year. It's getting really old. And quite frankly I'm just disappointed more than anything. I expect a certain level of compete and professional pride from professional athletes and over the past 10 years that level hasn't been close to being met. I'm not asking for championship runs every season, I just want a fun team that goes out and competes hard and has winning/positive seasons more than once or twice a decade.
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exactly what I was just doing
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That's totally how it felt too. Avs got pushed out of the rink in this game. It looked like they had no chance to get to the net, and no chance to prevent the Stars from going to theirs. Then they got beat up in the corners and the middle of the ice for good measure.
So tired of this soft ass team Bednar and MacFalane have convinced Sakic to ice. Thinking speed is the only part of the game that matters. They had their way for three years now, and it hasn't worked.
Pathetic display by a misfit bunch. As I often say, Columbus was dubbed the Island of Misfit Toys, we saw that, thought it was a good idea to bring their castoffs from management and bit players and are now Columbus 2.0.
This franchise needs some sense of direction from the upper management and coaches, the people in charge now are not capable of doing that. Bring in a Q or someone like him and let him instill his vision building around MacKinnon, Landeskog, Mikko, Makar and Sens pick. That would at least be a start in the right direction.
PS
I know some don't like to talk about size or whatnot, but size is definitely important in the game of hockey. We basically go from one extreme to the next without ever finding the balance, we are either filled with big lugs who can't skate or soft speedsters who get pushed around. There hasn't been a single SC winner since the lockout that hadn't had a mix of size and speed. Wings had Franzen and Homer up front to wreak havoc along with shifty guys like Z and #13, Pens had Kunitz, Hornquist, Geno etc, Hawks had Buff, Bickell, Toews isn't small, Ladd, Brouwer to go along with guys like Seabs, Hammer etc on the backend, Kings were huge and fast, Sharks that played in the Cup Finals were big and fast, so were the Preds, Lightning, Bruins, Nucks, Flyers etc.
This franchise needs some sense of direction from the upper management and coaches, the people in charge now are not capable of doing that. Bring in a Q or someone like him and let him instill his vision building around MacKinnon, Landeskog, Mikko, Makar and Sens pick. That would at least be a start in the right direction.
PS
I know some don't like to talk about size or whatnot, but size is definitely important in the game of hockey. We basically go from one extreme to the next without ever finding the balance, we are either filled with big lugs who can't skate or soft speedsters who get pushed around. There hasn't been a single SC winner since the lockout that hadn't had a mix of size and speed. Wings had Franzen and Homer up front to wreak havoc along with shifty guys like Z and #13, Pens had Kunitz, Hornquist, Geno etc, Hawks had Buff, Bickell, Toews isn't small, Ladd, Brouwer to go along with guys like Seabs, Hammer etc on the backend, Kings were huge and fast, Sharks that played in the Cup Finals were big and fast, so were the Preds, Lightning, Bruins, Nucks, Flyers etc.
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