Pre-Game Talk: Week of ghouls, ghosts and long breaks (CAR, @PHI, @NYI)

[CobraAcesS]

This is worth a read and yes I know it's the DP (it's not Chambers at least)

This is at the bottom of that "Colorado coach Jared Bednar said the Avs brought a power-skating coach into town to work with Jost in his rehab. …"

I was wondering if they actually recognized that his skating needed some work.

 

[Ararana]

This is at the bottom of that "Colorado coach Jared Bednar said the Avs brought a power-skating coach into town to work with Jost in his rehab. …"

Not just Jost apparently

 

[tigervixxxen]

She's an actual Avs employee now

 

[CobraAcesS]

She's an actual Avs employee now

Is that like a Foote employee, or a Pratt employee?

 

[StayAtHomeAv]

Yeah I don't get it, I'd much rather Z and Bigras be in the lineup. But at this point we're playing well enough that I'm okay with it. I expect after the next loss they come in hungry, and hopefully stay in for a long while.

Or they come back timid, unconfident and afraid to make a mistake.

 

[Gigantor The Goalie]

Ahh that makes a little more sense. I've seen you throw that stat out before, but the context was easier to understand last season. Thanks

No problem and while I'm not an expert on all goalie stats feel free to message me here or on twitter if you have any goalie related questions.

 

[Vaslof]

I'd like to see these forward lines when everyone's healthy:

Landeskog - MacKinnon - Rantanen (it's working now and was good last year so hopefully not a flash in the pan)
Kerfoot - Duchene - Compher (Kerfoot and Duchene were good together at the start of the year, Compher is an improvement on Yakupov in both ends)
Andrighetto - Söderberg - Comeau (I think Andrighetto will be fine here and brings more offense to the line that's been getting a lot of ice time)
Greer/Nieto - Jost - Wilson (Assuming they want to keep Jost up)

Though I'd like to see Duchene traded soon so we could include Yakupov in the line-up, maybe run Kerfoot - Compher - Yakupov.

 

[Cousin Eddie]

I'd like to see these forward lines when everyone's healthy:

Landeskog - MacKinnon - Rantanen (it's working now and was good last year so hopefully not a flash in the pan)
Kerfoot - Duchene - Compher (Kerfoot and Duchene were good together at the start of the year, Compher is an improvement on Yakupov in both ends)
Andrighetto - Söderberg - Comeau (I think Andrighetto will be fine here and brings more offense to the line that's been getting a lot of ice time)
Greer/Nieto - Jost - Wilson (Assuming they want to keep Jost up)

Though I'd like to see Duchene traded soon so we could include Yakupov in the line-up, maybe run Kerfoot - Compher - Yakupov.

I actually really like these lines. Especially the Andrighetto-Soderberg-Comeau idea. Sucks for Nieto because he's been an important part of that line's success recently but I think this makes it better.