Pre-Game Talk: Week of Wed Weengs, Winnypeg, and Wegas (the Boston game never happened)

[avgard]

wrong place posted collected. thanks

sir avgard hockeyprofessor

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

I'm sure many of you are too young to get this reference, but...

Oh, what a feeling! Toyota!

 

[Spleenless Wonder21]

I'm sure many of you are too young to get this reference, but...

Oh, what a feeling! Toyota!

Guilty…

As for this thread title:

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

So Avs are rolling, coming in healthy, with Kuemper in net, and have dominated in 2nd half of B2B games this year, while Vegas is kind of struggling, possibly missing Patches, Stone, Lehner, and Martinez...

Everyone thinks the Avs will win easily...

I think we know how that usually turns out.

4-2 Vegas

 

[Pokecheque]

I'm sure many of you are too young to get this reference, but...

Oh, what a feeling! Toyota!

See, I always remembered it as “Who could ask for anything more? Toyota!”



I don’t know why that’s labeled as a 90s commercial. I’m old enough that I should remember the “Oh what a feeling” slogan, but I just remember the latter.

 

[Cake Malar]

Some quick maths for everyone on a Saturday afternoon.

After 52 games the Avs sit at 80 points. Let go through some scenarios for the last 30 games comparing the Avs to the Blues, our closest competition in the Division. The Blues have 31 game remaining and sit at 68 points. I'm not going to account for OT losses or tie breakers because I'm not interested in doing that much math.

If the Avs go 15-15 they will finish with 110 points. For the Blues to tie they would finish the season 21-10. Not unheard of, but thats a pretty good stretch of hockey for any team.

If the Avs go 20-10 they will finish with 120 points. The Blues would need to finish 26-5 to tie.

The Avs magic number to clinch the division, as of right now, is 26. Meaning any combination of Blues losses and Avs wins that add up to 26 and the Avs finish first in the central. The math is roughly the same for the Wild, and also the same for Calgary for #1 seed in the west.

 

[Pokecheque]

Apologies if this was already posted.

Winnipeg Jets @ Colorado Avalanche, 2022-02-25

NST is a little glitchy right now so I can’t take too close a look but it appears even in the first period, the Avs completely dominated. Despite this, MacDermid, even in a VERY limited amount of ice time, managed a single-digit Corsi rating.