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I don't think it was all intentional. Avs weren't in playoff mode, but they weren't trying to lose 7-0. But I do feel it played to our advantage. Jets couldn't avoid getting overconfident, and thinking they could beat us in a run-and-gun game, and it made sure the Avs had a bad taste in their mouth, on top of what they rememered from last year in round 1.I forget who wrote it in the regular season GDT, but the 7-0 loss had to be a huge psy ops maneuver, no? Avs knew they could flip the switch in the playoffs and wanted to hide their true strength from a complacent Jets team.
I think there were a few. I definitely called it 4d chess, I remember that, but I wasn't aloneI forget who wrote it in the regular season GDT, but the 7-0 loss had to be a huge psy ops maneuver, no? Avs knew they could flip the switch in the playoffs and wanted to hide their true strength from a complacent Jets team.
I fully expect the Jets can win tomorrow. And the Avs haven't been good at closing out series at home in the past 15 years or so. So there's your Game 7.Was telling some other friends basically this. They're ready to consider the series over, and it's not. I know the stat came up after yesterday's game that when a team gets a 3-1 lead in a series, they go on to win that series something like 90% of the time.
The Avs have twice been in that 10% group. We really don't want to make it a 3rd.
Reminds me a lot of Toews.How good would Josh Morrissey be on this team?
That's a guy tailor-made for Bednar hockey. Skating, puck movement, seamless transition, high IQ.
Love watching him play.
I read somewhere that due to the pesky, primitive part of our brain we're wired to focus on danger and the negative 10x more than the positive. A holdover from the days when we could be crunched by a saber toothed tiger at any moment. Free yourself from the tyranny of the amygdala, Avs are going deep, deep.
Which is why I think subliminally half the guys in here would rather us lose than win just so they can continue on bitching and complaining.
All you need to do is look at the results of the poll in this thread.
Did the DU guy sign yet? I want three in each net.Did we really need to have 5 goalies on the team right now?
Georgiev
Annunen
Prosvetov
Miner
Holm
Practice will be a mess.
I think ultimately, decisions on Scheifele/Hellebuyck are simply secondary to their problem. Scheif has probably been one of their top 3 players so far. I think Hellebuyck has been good, but could have been better.Alright...
I genuinely am not sure what to expect tonight. I was like 55/40 or 60/40 that the Avs would lose on Sunday afternoon given how they've recently performed in afternoon games; but they came out and put their foot on the necks of the Jets. I had genuinely believed that we'd get a super desperate Jets team throwing everything they could at Colorado to prevent themselves from going in to a 3-1 hole.
So what can we expect tonight? I had been lurking on the Jets board (as I know @RoyIsALegend has been doing too LOL), and there are a few of their posters who seem to think that Scheifele is checked out, not buying in to what Bowness is saying, etc. and the implication is that he might be dragging the team down too.
They also are split on whether or not they want Hellebuyck to start tonight. Like the ones who want Brossoit to start are citing the fact that he saved all 4 shots faced on Sunday/the Jets only allowed 4 shots (as if Colorado didn't go in to a clamp-down mode). I don't know if I have an opinion on that, because Hellebuyck clearly has talent, but Colorado has made him look rather pedestrian (despite NHL Network Radio personalities still acting as if Hellebuyck has been fine/good in the series)...but I also have some minor fear that he can flip a switch and full-on stonewall the Avs.
Well let's hope he doesn't change tactics, because historically, including under Bednar, the Avs have been utter shit when a team just plays that boring, low-event, smothering style of hockey. They just can never seem to find a way to counter-attack.I think ultimately, decisions on Scheifele/Hellebuyck are simply secondary to their problem. Scheif has probably been one of their top 3 players so far. I think Hellebuyck has been good, but could have been better.
Their current team strategy isn’t working. The jets succeed on slow, low chance hockey. Their current tactics are doing the opposite. They’re allowing stretch passes constantly and the neutral zone is a highway. It’s literally the complete opposite of how they want to and should play.
We’ll have to see if they make adjustments for this game. Although listening to Bowness, it doesn’t seem like he believes tactics are an issue. He thinks it’s an execution problem. I disagree, but I guess we’ll see who’s right.
Jets can't skate with the Avs at all.
I believe they would fare a lot better against a Dallas/Vancouver/LA style team.
They even played Vegas better last year to this point.
I think Hellys been pretty good outside game 1. There’s been maybe a couple goals he wants back, but the defense has just been horrific and is giving up prime scoring chance after prime scoring chance.I think ultimately, decisions on Scheifele/Hellebuyck are simply secondary to their problem. Scheif has probably been one of their top 3 players so far. I think Hellebuyck has been good, but could have been better.
Their current team strategy isn’t working. The jets succeed on slow, low chance hockey. Their current tactics are doing the opposite. They’re allowing stretch passes constantly and the neutral zone is a highway. It’s literally the complete opposite of how they want to and should play.
We’ll have to see if they make adjustments for this game. Although listening to Bowness, it doesn’t seem like he believes tactics are an issue. He thinks it’s an execution problem. I disagree, but I guess we’ll see who’s right.
Avs will win tonight barring a George collapse.Alright...
I genuinely am not sure what to expect tonight. I was like 55/40 or 60/40 that the Avs would lose on Sunday afternoon given how they've recently performed in afternoon games; but they came out and put their foot on the necks of the Jets. I had genuinely believed that we'd get a super desperate Jets team throwing everything they could at Colorado to prevent themselves from going in to a 3-1 hole.
So what can we expect tonight? I had been lurking on the Jets board (as I know @RoyIsALegend has been doing too LOL), and there are a few of their posters who seem to think that Scheifele is checked out, not buying in to what Bowness is saying, etc. and the implication is that he might be dragging the team down too.
They also are split on whether or not they want Hellebuyck to start tonight. Like the ones who want Brossoit to start are citing the fact that he saved all 4 shots faced on Sunday/the Jets only allowed 4 shots (as if Colorado didn't go in to a clamp-down mode). I don't know if I have an opinion on that, because Hellebuyck clearly has talent, but Colorado has made him look rather pedestrian (despite NHL Network Radio personalities still acting as if Hellebuyck has been fine/good in the series)...but I also have some minor fear that he can flip a switch and full-on stonewall the Avs.
So basically...no idea what to expect tonight. I have the image in my mind of, Cale Makar back in 2022, I believe in R1 against the Predators, saying "The hardest one to win is the one that ends a team's season..." (or something to that effect).
Jets can't skate with the Avs at all.
I believe they would fare a lot better against a Dallas/Vancouver/LA style team.
They even played Vegas better last year to this point.
Dallas is an excellent passing team too... they can play faster than their pure foot speed would have you otherwise think.I think Dallas is actually quite a fast team.
I know they have slow guys like Pavs, Benn, and some slow guys on the backend, but there’s a lot of speed in that lineup.
For instance, I think Dallas is a faster team than Edmonton.