Pre-Game Talk: Week 13: NYI, @DAL, FLA. The first week of 2024. Let the optimism flow! Or let the pessimism persist. I'm not your mother.

[Mooserton]

Feels like a night where the Avs lay an egg but I’d love to be wrong.

 

[MaKarter]

Johansen so bad. I'd try this. Hate to do it to Drou because he is just finding himself.

Lehkonen- MacKinnon- Rantenen
Wood- Drouin- Nichushkin
Cogliano- Colton- O'Connor
MacDermid- Olofsson- Kiviranta

Pick up a 2C and this is looking good
Lehkonen- MacKinnon- Rantenen
Drouin- XXXX- Nichushkin
Wood- Colton- O'Connor
Cogliano- Olofsson- Kiviranta

 

[dahrougem2]

Johansen so bad. I'd try this. Hate to do it to Drou because he is just finding himself.

Lehkonen- MacKinnon- Rantenen
Wood- Drouin- Nichushkin
Cogliano- Colton- O'Connor
MacDermid- Olofsson- Kiviranta

Pick up a 2C and this is looking good
Lehkonen- MacKinnon- Rantenen
Drouin- XXXX- Nichushkin
Wood- Colton- O'Connor
Cogliano- Olofsson- Kiviranta

Don't ruin a good thing with Drouin on the wing. Just limit Johansen's minutes as much as you can for the time being, pray he continues to chip in the odd goal and win his faceoffs, and get rid of him by the TDL for a real 2nd line centre.

 

[dahrougem2]

Avs could have a potentially golden opportunity to pounce on a Panthers team that is coming off an emotional win in Vegas and could be missing both Alex Barkov and Evan Rodrigues tomorrow.

 

[jani]

Don't ruin a good thing with Drouin on the wing. Just limit Johansen's minutes as much as you can for the time being, pray he continues to chip in the odd goal and win his faceoffs, and get rid of him by the TDL for a real 2nd line centre.

I agree with this. Until the 2nd line can be more permanently fixed, I'd be interested to see Nuke - Mack - Drouin as the first line and Lehky - Colton - Rantanen as the second line, obviously once Lehky is back.

 

[Raucherhusten]

Something great i found on the You Tubes. For your viewing pleasure



No idea if the vid has been posted before, but i don't care, cause i freakin' love it!