A Multi goal night for Val Nichushkin, including one on the power play, helps the Colorado Avalanche overcome a three-goal deficit to earn at least one point. Goals from Necas and Kelly were also required and some significant issues kept them from getting the win over Carolina
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12 Comments
it would be awesome if Val could keep up as he played in this game. beast.
Triple drop pass, enter the zone along the boards and get immediately pinched and can’t get a pass off. Fight to get set up, other team clears. I saw that every single PP. So frustrating!
No comment on the gorgeous jerseys?
Also, I think it was the pads causing both goalies troubles. Weggie improved so much after making adjustments to his equipment, I think at the end of last season. Then he gets new stuff for this retro game, that looked awesome but just wasn't right for the game and it didn't go well. Plus, he's not the guy to play 8 games in a row. He's been amazing, but the guy needs a break to recoup.
Lots of stuff in real life is going seriously shit, so trying even more to just be positive about the Avs. It's honestly been working too, 8 games in and we've dropped 3 points, point in every game. So genuinely why get pissed off or sad cause the shit in real life is waaaaay worse.
But last night, the PP was the final straw for the longest time, so glad we finally got one but no matter how much we try to be positive in chat, I genuinely wanted 4 on 4, that wasn't a joke, I was hoping someone would have the guts to take a matching minor as if to say "I'd rather do this than let the fans suffer another PP" cause last night was the first time the PP looked like last year, the momentum killing shorty, the constant zone entries and bad decisions, it was just awful.
Bring on the Bruins and hope to fuck that the PP gets better, cause we CANNOT go back to last seasons PP.
Great review as always Rudo and SMASH THAT LIKE DORKS!
This season is really weird – I completely agree. The Avs have not straight up lost yet, but it feels like there is so much meat on the bone for this team.
No idea why it took this long for Val to be on PP1. That dude is a power play monster
Avs are a good team, maybe a great team, and should in theory, get better. I expect PP and Landy to get better.
Keep nuke on the pp
We got the Kelly goal because of the Landy no goal.
3:10 Val wasn't wearing an Avalanche jersey… 😂
Yes, Nuke on PP1 was just what the doctor ordered. But, that said, there was more going on that hadn't been happening… everyone was moving. Marty & Nate had switched sides and pushed Olafson into the bumper, Nate was moving high like getting started for another position rotation and drew Whalers away from Cale, preventing the smothering of Cale that was happening in prior PPs (both this game and against Utah).
I don’t watch every pod but I’ve yet to see an analysis of why for a couple of years now the Avs have to work so much harder than their opponents to score. It’s got to be a glitch in the systems they employ. They can just dominate the puck all night a out-corsi teams 2-1 and the other team can seemingly accomplish the same amount of scoring with half the possession. How many times have we heard that they were the better team but it just didn’t go their way or see a pod like after game seven say “the Avs were the better team for 48 minutes but unfortunately the game is 60” without addressing the elephant in the room that if you are the better team for 48 out of 60 minutes, you should still smoke a team. Why can these teams accomplish more by playing well for 12 minutes than the Avs can by playing well for 48? It’s as if teams can sit back and not press knowing that if they pack the slot defensively the Avs wont score and they don’t have to worry about trying much on offense because the Avs will just flat out hand you 2-3 goals per game. They give up 3-4 times the amount of breakaways than their opponents. Every goalie has no problem looking like a Vezina candidate against them. This staff has to be under scrutiny for not figuring out why being the better team isn’t good enough because this is not a small sample size at this point. In fact they just lost a playoff series in which they were “the better team.” When was the last time the Avs were just gifted 4 goals in a game they sucked in? Because make no mistake, Carolina was terrible in this game and Dallas was terrible a couple weeks ago and yet they Avs hand them 2 points.