I mean you have to look at who Annunens played this year. He’s started at against CHI x2, MTL, CBJ, OTT, CGY, STL, NJ, TBL, and MIN. He has decent numbers but that’s a lot of bad teams and at best some above average teams.
Yeah I agree with this. I know some people don't really believe in this kind of 'mumbo-jumbo' but I do.
I don't disagree with anything said here.Yeah I agree with this. I know some people don't really believe in this kind of 'mumbo-jumbo' but I do.
I think every season has ebbs and flows and teams have great stretches and shitty stretches and individual players too. Good teams end up with more & better longer stretches and less & shorter shittier stretches but they exist for all teams.
Last season we finished the year with an 8-1-1 record to pass the dallas stars by one measly point to face the 2nd wild card which turned out to be a first round exit at the hands of the kraken. All that to avoid the minnesota mild...imagine that. We were due to play some shitty games and have a crappy stretch and we certainly did.
Three weeks ago, it looked like the jets couldn't buy a win and were something like 0-4-5 or something like that and now they're on a 6 game winning streak. We'll see what happens... I hope they win their last 2 games.
They are certainly a very good team and have a great goaltender but the last time I checked, this isn't a new development. He's been a great goaltender for the past several years and playoffs and they haven't been exactly a crappy team during that time. They may have had some detrimental players (wheeler, pld, etc...) and they have more depth now but we'll see if they are going to be able to elevate their game the way they need to in the playoffs. Everyone around here is already acting like it's a foregone conclusion.
One thing I know, is that if Nathan MacKinnon decides that he's going to go COMPLETELY APESHIT in the playoffs, he's going to be hard to stop under any scenario.
I think Bednar's system is great, however it's very demanding and difficult to sustain.
When Avs won the cup in 22, they could adjust and play any style the opposition threw at them. They could run and gun or they could defend and grind out wins. Don’t think this version of the Avs can do all that. Seems like the only system they can play this year is try to outscore the opposition while giving up bunch of goals themselves
That's the system they are forced to play since George can't buy a save. Kind hard to play any other way when you know to even have a chance you are going to need 5 goals scored.
Not sure if this Avs team is capable of playing a full 60 minute shutdown hockey. They need to do it since Georgiev can’t stop pucks to have any chance, I’m just not sure they can
Avs fans make Murphy from Murphy's Laws look like an optimist...
And Georgiev has allowed 12 goals in 2 games
And not a single one his fault!!
Wont happen because i fully expect Georgie to get pulled by the 10 min mark in Game 1, Period 1.
All of the guys that we've acquired for the bottom-6 : Colton, Wood, Duhaime, Trenin & Parise will be measured by what happens next week and beyond - not by how they performed in the regular season.
Not that I disagree, because having a bottom 6 that’s tough to play against is nice. But at some point you need someone who isn’t Mikko, Mack, Nuke to score. So even if they play well physically and defensively, some production is necessary.
This is actually sad. We are heading into the playoffs and it's gotten so bad in net that even the national guys, who rarely pay attention to the Avs, are debating what we should do in net.
Once again I'm going to have to thoroughly disagree with this viewpoint. You cannot play a rookie with 14 career starts (or maybe 17/18/19 if you played him more) as your starter in the playoffs. Whether you like it or not, George is the starter and Bednar had to try and get him going. There's a reason he refers to him as the starter, its because he's the only one we have. Bednar had no choice. Annunen is not an option yet. It was only what 8 or so games ago last month where George was looking better during our win streak, he had something like a .924%, and a 2.1GAA. Bednar had to see if he could get that out of Georgiev again. If he had gone with Annunen, well he might as well have waived George then and there and brought up Pro, because you think you'll get better stats out of George in the backup position? Bednar 100% had to go with George. Now we wait to see if he can actually return to his level of play from last month or even last year, or not.
