Pre-Game Talk: The week of coasts (BOS, WAS, @ANA, @Fopp ****ed up)

[Foppberg]

Hoping we can build off last nights win, tough week ahead.

L W W W

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[avsfan09]

I cant wait until people stop writing off Rantanens success. One poster called him a bottom sixer last year and a 2nd liner this year. Cant wait to see what he can do next year if he keeps progressing and grows to a first liner.

 

[CharlesPuck]

Avs sweep the week

 

[Murzu]

W W W W

 

[Raucherhusten]

Obviously we'll win them all.

And Rantanen is a second liner at best; like Landy is an average 3rd line grinder. And putting up points like crazy is the only thing Barrie is good at - and nobody needs such a player anyway.

 

[Makar to MacK]

We sweep the week and the NHL is so impressed that they award us an extra 2 points for the amazing effort.

 

[5280]

Important week for our playoff hopes. We really need to figure out how to get at least 5-6 points in these games, keep some momentum going, and get back on track. The harder games are at home, so I can see us winning a couple and taking a game into overtime.

 

[Spender]

Washington, Anaheim and Los Angeles have all been unimpressive so far, should be a good week to get some points.

 

[AvHooligan]

I really want to see Bednar put Soda on that 2nd line in some combination with Kerfoot and Jost sooner rather than later. I think that could be a solid line.

Anyone else agree or am I crazy?

 

[Avsboy]

I really want to see Bednar put Soda on that 2nd line in some combination with Kerfoot and Jost sooner rather than later. I think that could be a solid line.

Anyone else agree or am I crazy?

Soderberg is like a dice. You just keep rolling him in all situations and get a number. In his case 50 points. It doesn't matter what line he's on.

 

[avsfan09]

I really want to see Bednar put Soda on that 2nd line in some combination with Kerfoot and Jost sooner rather than later. I think that could be a solid line.

Anyone else agree or am I crazy?

Could be decent but who plays bottom six than? Hopefully Compher will be back soon.

 

[dahrougem2]

W vs Boston
L vs Washington
OTL @ Anaheim
W @ Los Angeles

 

[Ceremony]

2-2

 

[nightonthesun]

I really want to see Bednar put Soda on that 2nd line in some combination with Kerfoot and Jost sooner rather than later. I think that could be a solid line.

Anyone else agree or am I crazy?

Agree very much. You could then bump Kamenev up to the 3rd line if he keeps playing like he’s been. JTC - Kam - Ghetto(?)

What a difference a little bit more depth would make.

 

[The Mars Volchenkov]

Soderberg is like a dice. You just keep rolling him in all situations and get a number. In his case 50 points. It doesn't matter what line he's on.

I’m going to be very surprised if Soderberg hits even close to 50 points with who he’d playing with.

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

I really think this is a sweepable week.

At home against Boston and Washington, two teams we have matched up well against recently. Throw Varly on Boston and give Grubs his old team. Then the California road trip but both Cali teams have struggled a bunch to start this year.


Definitely a doable 4-0-0 week if we play like we're capable of playing.

 

[Foppberg]

... What?

 

[McMetal]

Boston will he real tough, but I'm going to that game and they're undefeated this year when I attend, so obviously that's a win.

 

[henchman21]

Has to be false, states Barrie is our top defensemen!

The fancy stats are all pretty kind to the Avs defensive group.

 

[The Mars Volchenkov]

I don’t know much about GAR and haven’t done much looking into it. All I know is that it was a hot debate among all advanced stats folks this summer.

 

[Pokecheque]

Interesting. I have a hard time wrapping my head around a stat that labels Dmitry Orlov a minus and the broken corpse of Brooks Orpik a net positive. But whatever, he says this is still small-sample-size territory.

 

[SaltySkywalker]

I really think this is a sweepable week.

At home against Boston and Washington, two teams we have matched up well against recently. Throw Varly on Boston and give Grubs his old team. Then the California road trip but both Cali teams have struggled a bunch to start this year.


Definitely a doable 4-0-0 week if we play like we're capable of playing.

I'm sorry Peirce, but this is just setting us up for failure. Let's focus on game 1 first before we talk about sweeps.

 

[The Abusement Park]

Interesting. I have a hard time wrapping my head around a stat that labels Dmitry Orlov a minus and the broken corpse of Brooks Orpik a net positive. But whatever, he says this is still small-sample-size territory.

For real. Orlov(and niskanen for that matter) were easily the most underrated part of the Caps cup run. Just dominated in their shutdown role.

 

[Sascha]

it would be so typical, if we win against boston, the much more difficult game, but lose the must win games vs. Anaheim and LA.

 

[The Mars Volchenkov]

For real. Orlov(and niskanen for that matter) were easily the most underrated part of the Caps cup run. Just dominated in their shutdown role.

In fairness the Caps haven’t been very good this year and in the games I’ve watched Niskanen has been bad.

 

[The Abusement Park]

In fairness the Caps haven’t been very good this year and in the games I’ve watched Niskanen has been bad.

Which is definitely true. But I meant during their cup run.

 

[forsbergavs32]

W, OTL, W, W