freeboy
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Yup, absolutely. On that subject, JR should be shot to the moon.
Definitely scripted
Yup, absolutely. On that subject, JR should be shot to the moon.
Did they play terrible last night? This place seems extra depressing to read today.
I had a great time, even if they lost. Sorry that you weren't able to experience it.
We've seen them stop playing in the third period all year and it's just getting worse. They just can't play with a lead, which means they are a bad hockey team.
They played a great first period and stopped trying to play. Low intensity and just giving the puck away for 20 minutes straight. It's really annoying.
They got what they deserved last night.
I don't think we can compare throwball to hockey, the Stupid Bowl is extremely easy to win, especially if you're a good team.
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Do you really need be a jerk when you are talking about the Broncos and/or Football?
Stinks that the Avs lost tonight but it was still a fantastic weekend here in town. I had a total blast.
That is not the point these posters are trying to make.
It's not losing.
It's losing in a pathetic fashion in front of 50k fans, and gives the casuals fans a lot of reasons not to come to the can. That again leads to away fans continuing being louder than home fans at the Pepsi Center and half-filled arenas.
This was the opportune moment to show Coloradans to come and watch and cheer for the playoff push. And the team gave us, well, that pile of dung.
I'm fine, and most here are fine if they lose, but show urgency, passion and will to win.
To lose like that is completely unacceptable. Especially after that good 1st period.
Fooled me with your avatar lmao!
Yes, I think the good has outweighed the bad by a longshot. Do they have bad moves? Yes, every GM swings and misses. But Roykics hits have been much better than their misses. Beauch is great, Soda is great, Comeau does his job, Matthias looks like he fits on that line (too early to judge), Gormley is good D depth, especially since Elliot was going nowhere in this organization. Let's not even mention Grigs, Zads and Compher. ALL of which look to contribute sooner rather than later if not contributing already.
Berra was a 50/50. Sometimes you gotta take that risk, and it's great Pickard overtook him. Stuart was bad. They learned from that. Iggy was again, 50/50, guy scored 29 goals last year and the guy is on pace for what, 25 or so this year? For a team that struggles scoring goals, that's huge.
Tanguay for Jones? Can't really believe anyone is gonna complain about that. SOB? lol. Not even gonna touch on that.
Fooled me with your avatar lmao!
Yes, I think the good has outweighed the bad by a longshot. Do they have bad moves? Yes, every GM swings and misses. But Roykics hits have been much better than their misses. Beauch is great, Soda is great, Comeau does his job, Matthias looks like he fits on that line (too early to judge), Gormley is good D depth, especially since Elliot was going nowhere in this organization. Let's not even mention Grigs, Zads and Compher. ALL of which look to contribute sooner rather than later if not contributing already.
Berra was a 50/50. Sometimes you gotta take that risk, and it's great Pickard overtook him. Stuart was bad. They learned from that. Iggy was again, 50/50, guy scored 29 goals last year and the guy is on pace for what, 25 or so this year? For a team that struggles scoring goals, that's huge.
Tanguay for Jones? Can't really believe anyone is gonna complain about that. SOB? lol. Not even gonna touch on that.
So who is looking forward to Varly playing in another pressure packed situation against Minnesota?
I love Varly, but that might be the last straw if he craps the bed in that game.
I had a great time, even if they lost. Sorry that you weren't able to experience it.
So who is looking forward to Varly playing in another pressure packed situation against Minnesota?
I love Varly, but that might be the last straw if he craps the bed in that game.
last straw in terms of what?
I wouldn't call some exceptionally unfortunate bounces going against him to be "crapping the bed". I'm sure there are some he'd like to have back. To me, the truth is this: with as many games as Varlamov has stolen for the Avs (and has the ability to steal in the future), there HAS to be some games where the rest of the team looks at him and says, "Hey, we see that it's not going great tonight, we'll get you." Sometimes the rest of the team has to steal a game for Varly.
That happens with our other goalies more though, Berra has definitely had the team save his bacon a few times.
I think in those situations it's more the timing of the saves than purely the amount of goals they let in.
I mean it being 4-3 with 10 or 15 minutes left in the third period is way different than 1 minute left.
We've just got a long history of getting scored on in the later parts of the second and third periods.
Edit : It's weird with Berra and Pickard, you seem to be able to tell from the first period if they are going to have a bad game or not. Usually if they are going to play well (especially Pickard) it continues all the way through the game. Varly seems to have games inside of games far to often. One minute hes saving our ass, and the next we have all the momentum and hes letting in a soft goal at a weird time.
If you're really going to lay the 4th goal at his feet, then I don't know what to say. It was some porous defense being played by the Avs, and the puck hopped up and floated over him. It was pretty much the epitome of a "fluke goal". Was it something Varly would like to have back? Yeah. Was it something that he should have saved? Sure. But that's ALL fluke goals, they tend to be ones that are easily savable, but somehow find an unfortunate bounce to get past the goalie.
Me personally having any trust in him as our starter now and in the future.
Full faith in Pickard though
Get Varlamov away from this team and send him where he'd be appreciated. Maybe this fan base needs another decade of garbage in net.
Yeah and the best goalies more often than not find a way to not allow a fluke goal in the final minutes of a period, fluke goals just happen far to often with him when hes not on fire. He seems to be really hot or cold at all times.
I'm not laying it all on him either, as we've all beat the horse that is our defense quite enough. Really the goals allowed are cumulative, as that late goal would not have been as much of an issue if he also stopped some of the others he absolutely should have. That night I told my wife the post Landeskog hit would come back to bite us most likely as well. So it's not all on him.
I just wish Varly would give us good games without having to absolutely be on fire saving our ass.
Kind of like Pickard did the other night, and does a lot of nights. We still win games when he lets in three goals. It feels like when Varly lets in three or four goals those last ones are at really bad times.
That's just what it feels like to me, I'm not ripping through stats here.