Pre-Game Talk: Smashville @ Avs Wednesday 7:30 MST - Shoulda picked Jones.

[Drury_Sakic]

Come at me bro!

No Benoit at practice. If he ends up not playing on Wednesday, wonder if Holden will get the nod over Barrie?

If Benoit is out, you have to play Barrie. Nothing against Holden, but we need to replace an offensive D man with an offensive D man.

 

[Foppa Frossa]

You don't want any part of me...

This was me at age 3:

Frenchy, Taco and Soundwave have my back. Right guys? Guys?

 

[Nzap]

If Benoit is out, you have to play Barrie. Nothing against Holden, but we need to replace an offensive D man with an offensive D man.

Then again preferably you replace a LD with a LD.

And Holden has a good first pass. He can get the puck out of the zone.

 

[AvsfanJack]

It is going to be really hard to say if we should have picked Jones or MacKinnon. Both are going to be excellent players for a long time.

IMO the Avs' pick is going to be evaluated on external factors rather than on Jones vs MacKinnon. By this I mean if the Avs defense really continues to suck and never gets better, people are always going to say "Should have drafted Jones." But if EJ establishes himself as a #1 and/or Bigras ends up a top pairing defensemen, people will think that MacKinnon was the correct pick.

All I can really say is that if Bigras can end up as a top pairing defensemen (really big assumption), the Avs made the right call. This is simply because the difference between Bigras and Jones would be less than the difference between MacKinnon than say De La Rose/Dauphin/etc. I think the odds are that either one could have been the right pick at #1, and really Barkov could have been thrown in that group as well.

I had tickets to the Spits game this Saturday when they played Owen Sound. I bought them specifically so I could see Bigras play. Despite Windsor killing them 6-0, Bigras was by far the best player on the ice for Owen Sound. Real agile for a d man and made nice crisp passes. He had one mistake going for a jump ball on a puck in the air that lead to a Windsor breakaway, but other then that he was solid. i wish he didnt play on such a bad team. I sat next to the visitor penalty box, I was hoping he would get called so I could toss my Avs hat over the glass for an autograph haha. He's gonna be a stud.

Sidenote: I've hit 100 posts, am I no longer a HF rookie?

 

[Bubba Thudd]

I had tickets to the Spits game this Saturday when they played Owen Sound. I bought them specifically so I could see Bigras play. Despite Windsor killing them 6-0, Bigras was by far the best player on the ice for Owen Sound. Real agile for a d man and made nice crisp passes. He had one mistake going for a jump ball on a puck in the air that lead to a Windsor breakaway, but other then that he was solid. i wish he didnt play on such a bad team. I sat next to the visitor penalty box, I was hoping he would get called so I could toss my Avs hat over the glass for an autograph haha. He's gonna be a stud.

Sidenote: I've hit 100 posts, am I no longer a HF rookie?

We'll upgrade you to "HF Prospect".

 

[henchman21]

I had tickets to the Spits game this Saturday when they played Owen Sound. I bought them specifically so I could see Bigras play. Despite Windsor killing them 6-0, Bigras was by far the best player on the ice for Owen Sound. Real agile for a d man and made nice crisp passes. He had one mistake going for a jump ball on a puck in the air that lead to a Windsor breakaway, but other then that he was solid. i wish he didnt play on such a bad team. I sat next to the visitor penalty box, I was hoping he would get called so I could toss my Avs hat over the glass for an autograph haha. He's gonna be a stud.

He won't in time... I expect Bigras to be traded for futures before the deadline.

 

[Burnaby_Joe*]

If Tanguay is out for a while, and with the trade of Downie, I think we'll go to a more traditional 2 scoring lines, a shutdown line, and a fourth line.

I'd go

Radar-Duchene-PAP
Landy-Stastny-MacKinnon
McGinn-Mitchell-Talbot
McLeod-Cliche-Bordeleau

I'd like to see the lines like this, too

 

[AvsfanJack]

He won't in time... I expect Bigras to be traded for futures before the deadline.

We just drafted the guy. He's not going anywhere. Don't give away your credibility like that.

 

[AMDZen]

He was being deliberately facetious my friend

 

[Unaffiliated]

We just drafted the guy. He's not going anywhere. Don't give away your credibility like that.

I hereby remove the "HF prospect" status granted to you by Bubba.

Gotta improve your sarcasm detection skills if you're gonna be postin on the Avs forum

 

[Unaffiliated]

Oh Rinne is out
Was not aware

 

[Freudian]

I was just trolling

You didn't use the smiley initially, but now you use it.

I'm not sure that's how you are supposed to do it, according to the rules. If we don't properly mark irony and sarcasm with smiley's, only anarchy remains.

 

[UncleRisto]

Oh Rinne is out
Was not aware

I didn't realize that either. So Hutton in net? Is he a sieve? Too bad Chris Mason's gone.

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

Didn't know Rinne was out either....



Anything less then a Regulation win Wednesday will be a disappointment.

 

[Bubba Thudd]

I hereby remove the "HF prospect" status granted to you by Bubba.

Gotta improve your sarcasm detection skills if you're gonna be postin on the Avs forum

Beat me to it.

The ruling by Unaffiliated stands.

 

[Freudian]

DP: "Rookie Nathan MacKinnon has been moved to right wing on the Paul Stastny-centered line, opposite left wing Gabe Landeskog. The left-shooting Tanguay was on that line and the right-shooting MacKinnon was centering what was considered the third line.

John Mitchell has replaced MacKinnon as the third-line center, with left wing Jamie McGinn and newcomer Max Talbot on the right side."

 

[InjuredChoker]

We just drafted the guy. He's not going anywhere. Don't give away your credibility like that.

i think he meant traded in juniors by owen sound.

 

[InjuredChoker]

DP: "Rookie Nathan MacKinnon has been moved to right wing on the Paul Stastny-centered line, opposite left wing Gabe Landeskog. The left-shooting Tanguay was on that line and the right-shooting MacKinnon was centering what was considered the third line.

John Mitchell has replaced MacKinnon as the third-line center, with left wing Jamie McGinn and newcomer Max Talbot on the right side."

guess they are going to use third line in more of a shutdown role and free up the 2nd line?

esp. as it's against nashville. i think mitchell line can handle it.

 

[AvsfanJack]

I hereby remove the "HF prospect" status granted to you by Bubba.

Gotta improve your sarcasm detection skills if you're gonna be postin on the Avs forum

Hencheman constantly has rediculous remarks regarding almost every subject, therefore I won't consider anything he says as sarcasm. Cuz who really knows with that guy?

 

[AvsfanJack]

DP: "Rookie Nathan MacKinnon has been moved to right wing on the Paul Stastny-centered line, opposite left wing Gabe Landeskog. The left-shooting Tanguay was on that line and the right-shooting MacKinnon was centering what was considered the third line.

John Mitchell has replaced MacKinnon as the third-line center, with left wing Jamie McGinn and newcomer Max Talbot on the right side."

Nice, our new second line is gonna put up at least 3 goals against Nashville.

 

[AvsfanJack]

guess they are going to use third line in more of a shutdown role and free up the 2nd line?

esp. as it's against nashville. i think mitchell line can handle it.

Well really, who do you have to shutdown in Nashville?? Hornqvist? Legwand?? That's about it right?

 

[henchman21]

i think he meant traded in juniors by owen sound.

This is what I meant.

Hencheman constantly has rediculous remarks regarding almost every subject, therefore I won't consider anything he says as sarcasm. Cuz who really knows with that guy?

Don't know what I did to you.

 

[AMDZen]

I didn't realize that either. So Hutton in net? Is he a sieve? Too bad Chris Mason's gone.

He out-dueled Jon Quick last night, has been playing quite well in fact

 

[AvsfanJack]

This is what I meant.



Don't know what I did to you.

Nothing dude, I didn't mean that in a rude way. You just always have out of the box thinking on things and it's hard to tell if your serious sometimes.

 

[AvsfanJack]

He out-dueled Jon Quick last night, has been playing quite well in fact

Yeah not too bad, he's 3-1 with a 2.76 GAA and .914SV%