Victor Olofsson hat trick helps Colorado Avalanche offense explode on New Jersey Devils

Victor Olofsson hat trick helps Colorado Avalanche offense explode on New Jersey Devils

Go Blue Jays. We play the hockey. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Welcome in to the BNBR Avalanche postgame show presented by Bet 365. An explosion of goals for the Colorado Avalanche. We’ve got Jike, we’ve got Rudo coming to you live as the ABS defeat the New Jersey Devils 8-4. They get back in the win column. Uh really fun game. I I know there are some things people aren’t going to like from that second period, but really fun. I I really enjoyed this hockey game. Yeah, I mean we’ll talk about it all. There there were some some stretches where you maybe took your foot off the gas a little bit and credit to New Jersey for finding a way to fight back into it and make things interesting. But a lot like we said pretty repeatedly over the the watch along, you gave up four goals and I know they pulled within one, but it never to me at least really felt like the game was slipping away or anything like that. I mean, never trailed in this hockey. The game was never even tied after the first goal of the game. And if anything, while you would ideally clean it up there and yeah, just blow him out for 60 straight minutes. That’d be tremendous. Yeah, you still did blow him out. You still won by multiple goals. You didn’t even lose the second period and then giving it up. And I feel like that’s pretty disheartening the other way where you explode for four goals in five minutes and then you sit there couple minutes into the third and it’s like, wait, we’re still down multiple goals. Down by three three minutes into the third period despite that. It’s pretty dominant hockey from the ABS. Uh I I do want to hit the 60cond rundown here quickly so we can start with that and then we can chop it up and get into everything really. Um game started A1. ABS get a power play and score on it. Marty Nas, you’re up one nothing. Great stuff there. And then good work top to bottom. The entire forward core was awesome tonight. Zakar Bartikov scores his first NHL goal on a nice little break with a good finish from him. That was the first period and then the second period was off to the races for everybody. an eightgoal period, four goals a piece. The ABS score the first three, including multiple more power play goals. One on a five on three. Uh, one from Olafson, one from McKinnon to get things going there. Uh, they also get another goal from Parker Kelly on a breakaway because everyone’s allowed to score on the ABS. It’s 5 nothing. New Jersey scores four consecutive goals to come back and make it 5-4. We’ll dig into that deeper later. But then the ABS get another one to make it 6-4 from McKinnon. And then Victor Olivessson gets the hattick performing in the third period picking up a couple more goals. Uh yeah, that’s uh that feels like a regression to the mean for the AB scoring. They were due for a game like this. Absolutely. Especially the power play success. I mean, we just we knew at some point that a dam was going to break. We’ll get into all it. Probably would like to clean up the 5v5 play a little bit. But yeah, it if if we can sit here tonight and the the trolls around the NHL world are going to be able to use terms like power play merchant after the last month. It’s a good place to be. I think I’ll take it. It’s a very good place to be compared to where the Avalanche are or were rather I should say. It was not bad hockey either. Like no, this is not a game where it’s like, oh, the ABS capitalized on every tune opportunity and just everything went in the net tonight. Not really. I mean, the ABS pushed 40 shots on goal in this game. Could have been a 15 goal game. Like multiple post hits, some pretty good saves from Markstrom at times throughout the night. This was not a I mean, you’re not going to score eight very often, but this was not a game where it’s like, oh well, the ABS just shot 30% and who cares? Like they didn’t have to do anything. Yeah, it wasn’t a fluky eight by any means, right? The only one that felt somewhat soft is McKinnon’s power play goal that goes five hole. Maybe the rest of them, Olison’s hat-tick, all three goals are beautiful. God, what a game, right? Like Kelly and and Bartikovs are both breakaways that they just do a good job of finishing on. I Partardov’s like a partial break, but it’s a really good shot. Kelly’s move is unreal. Just jukes Marks out of his pants. These are all goals that you’re like, “Yeah, this is the ABS playing well. These are not gifts that they’re being given. These are not uh plays that are weird and ending up in the back of the net. It’s just the ABS are good enough to be able to do this to teams sometimes. And I think what I liked about it is you saw response at various times in this game from different lines. This wasn’t just, oh, the ABS top line is incredible and they scored seven goals or, oh, we had an insane fluky night from the bottom six. like when the opportunities were there when there were moments to shine you saw people step up all over the place. I mean what five goal scorers in the six goal scorers five five cuz multiple goals from McKinnon and yeah five um yeah the craziest part is like I don’t even think the ABS top line was all that good at five on five especially early. Yeah, they they got crushed in the first period possession-wise, but when you score four power play goals and your top guys are the ones doing that, okay, cool. You you you don’t need to be a perfect five on five hockey team when the power play is actually good. Is that the biggest difference between especially this time exactly a year ago, like after you made all the moves and stuff going into the postseason, that’s a completely different roster. Basically, a different team from October to to April and May. But the depth of this team has been so encouraging o over these, you know, last couple weeks here. I don’t think there’s a line you dislike tonight. Obviously Olivesson with a hat-tick. I know a lot of that comes on the power play, but your third line looked good. Uh you’re you have a line that’s clicking at your fourth line. Obviously BIOV and Kelly both score. That’s awesome. You’re not going to get that every night. But your bottom six is rolling out there and not only playing good hockey, but being extremely dangerous. Even the guys who didn’t score. Friendly had a couple of great a chances tonight. Colton had a bunch of quality plays that that could have created on your second line and Nushkin and Nelson were solid. I know they didn’t produce at a super high clip tonight or anything. You you got it from your other lines and part of that is power play too. Never had to get on the ice because your first power play unit was scoring. Um but you you have quality top to bottom for these guys and you go out against a team like New Jersey. Cool. you end up winning every battle. I I know the top line really lost the five on five battle, but when you look at the production of the game, you topline guys outproduce their topline guys. Are you surprised to see how consistently Olafson is is performing right now? Yeah. Um he was he’s my biggest surprise of the season so far. Now, tonight did feel like a you knew some goals were coming for that guy. He’s too good of a shooter. As you just pick a goal tonight and you go, “Oh, that’s a perfect shot. Sick. Awesome.” Snipe City, right? All night. Snipe City for Olivesson. I It’s hard to believe that this is his first career hattick with how good of a shooter that he is. If tonight was the only hockey game you’d watched, you’d be like, “That guy’s an allar, right? He’s incredible.” Nathan McKinnon, who? Victor Olivesson is the man. like and and I think cool to see him get rewarded, too, cuz he’s been a guy who’s created for others a ton. He’s probably never going to have another five-point night in his career, but he’s been so good for the ABS. And obviously deserves every bit of the success he had in this game, but also it’s good to see hard work pay off because yes, we’ve known Olivesson’s a good shooter and we knew he was due, but he also picks up two points, ends up with a five-point night. We’ll talk about him a little bit more in this three stars, but he’s also doing the other things right. He’s not making bad puck decisions. He’s doing the work defensively. Even if he’s imperfect defensively, the effort is there. And those are the guys you want to see get rewarded. I feel like Brinley is in a similar vein. A guy who he’s due. I mean, the way he keeps jumping up into the play. Yep. But it’s also not like he’s coming in out of control or or reckless, you know? He’s taking advantage of his athleticism a couple times. You know, he’s quick and just gets around the defender. Doesn’t try and get too cute. Just put it on net. See if something good happens. I just I love the little things like that that we’re seeing from him of late. Remove Look, there are still mistakes in this game, but for 53 of the 60 minutes of this game, the ABS did a lot of little things right. It It’s not You don’t get up five nothing on a team. You don’t finish a team 84 because you were screwing around and just happened to to dominate because you’re just better. Not with a team like New Jersey. That’s a good team over there and they showed you. That’s why they put a little bit of a scare into you in the second period. But when it came down to it and you needed to get the business done, the ABS did in in every category, not just successful power play, not just high-end scoring. Your penalty kill was also perfect tonight. Scott Wedgewood, I don’t know that there’s anything he could really do on the goals that go against him. At least three of them certainly what you you just go okay that’s unfortunate and he still steps up and makes a couple of big saves here and there in the third period where didn’t let him get rattled. Yeah, exactly. Stuck with it. Gets the W. The ABS outscore their problems like I’ve been wanting them to do for a week now. Everything feels great. I feel like outside of the couple minutes where you could nitpick some of the five on five stuff and obviously giving up four goals in five minutes is never ideal. Yeah. A lot of the things that we were talking about pregame that we wanted to see quality special teams play. Yep. You got that. A hot start. You got that. It not having to play from behind for once. You know, maybe that’s a bit of a exaggeration for once. You know what I mean though? Just based on the trends of late, like to come out and establish that 200 lead and and get the the positive momentum rolling. I I just feel like it made all the difference in this one. You were on a four-game losing streak. I know that’s a harsh way to put three overtime losses, but three points, but loss is the same. It’s accurate. And you’ve spent all of those games. Carolina at one point you were down by three goals after the first period. Boston, you were down by a goal after the first period, down by two after the second period. New Jersey the other night, you started the game down by two essentially. It’s so much easier to play from ahead in in the NHL. It’s like what you talked about with New Jersey, right? It’s exhausting to fight back into it. You’re you’re overexerting yourself just trying to climb out of the hole that you’ve dug yourself into. Yeah, it it’s just unsustainable to to play hockey in that way. It’s it’s far more sustainable to play hockey from ahead. And it’s not just oh well, you know, you don’t have to work as hard. You get more opportunities easier when you play from ahead because other teams realize they’re down by a lot. They have to take risks. Risks. Opportunities open up for you. And tonight the ABS banged all of them home. Not all of them honestly. They actually had like 25 high danger chances in this game. It was outrageous, but hit the post a couple of times, but were excellent in every facet. Again, outside of a fiveminute stretch in the in the second period, and there were a couple of mistakes I didn’t love in the third, but excellent excellent hockey on the whole for the Colorado Avalanche tonight. Were you surprised at all over the lack of urgency seemingly from New Jersey in that third or is that just kind of the product of all we we had our little scoring outburst. We’re still down multiple goals. It’s probably just not our night. Yeah, I think that’s a bit of human nature, right? Yeah. The McKinnon goal goes in towards the end of the second period to make it 6-4 and the run they were on kind of comes to an end and you say you tell yourself, “All right, we’re back in the game. You know, we didn’t lose in the second. we can come out in the third and get a hot start and and maybe we have something and then the ABS get a power play 2 minutes in and score on it and they’re up by three again and you’re like, “Okay, I don’t know that we have this in the bag.” Yeah. Long night, long flight back to the East Coast. Yeah. It’s tough work there. And like when you’re talking about leads of that caliber, four, five goals, you get, if you’re lucky, a comeback like that once a year maybe. And and it absolutely should not happen against a team like the Colorado Avalanche. The ABS are too good to blow a game like that. And and I know people will be freaking out like, well, they got clo. Did they though? This is That’s what I was saying though earlier where it’s like I know technically speaking it was within one goal. It was. But it didn’t feel like, oh man, the momentum has flipped in such a way all of a sudden they’re dominating the pace. They’re dominating puck possession. Yeah. They just they got a couple of fortunate breaks. And the only like the only real goal I have a problem with overarching is the fourth. Obviously, all of them are there’s some bad hockey involved and do better, but the lack of response after allowing them to climb back into it was a little bit annoying. You’re up by five and you give up two. Who cares? It Now it’s time to wake up, right? And then you give up another one and you’re like, that’s bad. But you’re still up by two. And then you give up another one and you’re like, okay, now this is becoming a problem. And it’s something that you have to learn how to do. The ABS have been excellent in onegoal games both directions, at least beyond the first period this year where if they’re up after the first, they pretty much close out the game. And if it’s close after the first, they come back and force it to overtime more often than not. But they’ve never really had that big comfortable lead early in a game until now. And they left their foot off the gas, which is normal. Every team does that. But like you said, it’s the you have to have the alarm set to wake up when when time comes down to it. And they didn’t. And I am a little bit of two minds about this because if you’re going to have a disastrous five minutes in a hockey game, when you’re up five to nothing, that’s the time to do it. Do it after you’ve already established a five goal lead, right? If it was one to nothing and you give up four unanswered goals, this is a disaster. But because you put yourself in an advantageous position, you get to say, “Well, that was bad. 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It was a good time. Second period of the GNVR Avalanche podcast. Is three stars good to go? Let’s Let’s hit up the three stars conversation then. We’ve already talked about a few of them a little bit. Uh star number three, Kale Macar. And I think he’s a little bit of the quiet hero in this game. It’s Kale Mar. Picked up four points, helped accelerate the power play. And I think these first two stars, we’re going to get into the power play a lot because Kale Macar is the quarterback of that power play. And we saw New Jersey play a slightly more passive penalty kill against the ABs than what we’ve seen a lot of teams go for against them tonight. And the Aavs absolutely tore that thing apart. They left no stone unturned. The puck movement was probably the best we’ve seen from the Colorado Avalanche this year on the power play tonight. Just every pass, boom, right on the sticks, right in the right places. And it goes to show, like you talked about earlier, those little details make the difference when it’s a stick to stick pass. It allows that one-time to get off clean instead of a player having to collect the puck, find it, and then shoot. Both McKinnon and Olison scored on one like that in this game. Uh it’s naturous 2. Actually, the the first goal of the game was a naturous one-time. Um it it’s so fun to watch when these players hit their ceilings because they are that good and they can make this type of stuff happen. And you walk away from this game thinking, “Ah, Kale Mar was pretty good.” And you check the box score and you’re like, “Oh, okay. He outscored the New Jersey Devils by himself. Sick.” Were you surprised at all to see kind of how different fundamentally it looked at times on the power play? I mean, like, I just feel like we’ve gotten so accustomed to seeing those same two, three looks, and tonight there’s just so much movement, the cycling, I don’t know, like in some sense it kind of felt like caught New Jersey off guard a little bit. I think it did. And I think, am I surprised? Not entirely. Am I surprised how good it looked? Yes. Um, but the last couple of games have pretty definitively been a breaking point for this power play. They had to do something. Maybe that’s the silver lining that comes out of all of it. If if nothing else, it has forced you, right, to take a hard look in the mirror. Power play out a little bit, Mac. We know what you love to do, but let’s switch it up a little bit. And they go four for six tonight. And it’s not. They’re not going to go four for six very often. That’s a says you. Best power play in the world, right? 66% for the rest of the season. They better win every trophy there is if their power play is that good. But it’s doing the right things. is playing the right way. And while the passing was super crisp and it’s awesome that they have that talent, the important thing to me shooting the puck and he finished. Yep. You the finishing will come eventually. We we’ve talked about that a lot so far this season, but for the finishing to come, you do have to give it a chance to go in. And every power play, shots, shots, shots. You’re getting it to either half wall instead of sitting there passing it back and forth for 40 seconds. Your guy on the half wall says, “Screw it. I’m throwing the puck on net.” And guess what? It went in. Sometimes good things happen. Yep. Sometimes it’s allowed. You’re okay. It’s You don’t have to work that hard for all your good things. They can just happen. That’s the I know you’re not a big office guy, but not you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. Michael Jordan, Michael Scott. Also, that’s a Wayne Gretzky quote. I know, but that’s Yeah, making the I know. I see it. I know. Star number two, which also gets a lot of credit for this power play, is Nathan McKinnon. A three-point night with two goals for him. Um, I think we’ve had a couple of not Nathan McKinnon’s best games. Obviously, everyone hones in on the overtime mistakes and and things like that from McKinnon over this last couple of stretch, but he’s kind of quietly on like a 60goal pace right now. uh he’s actually really really good and our standards for him are just absurdly high. So he is uh he’s doing what he needs to do. And again, McKinnon is the perfect example of me of don’t let good enough be or don’t let perfect be the enemy of good enough because he wasn’t that very very good at five on five tonight, but he showed up. The ABS needed power play goals. He provided them both by assisting and scoring them himself. And you look at a guy that regardless of how the internal locker room leadership as far as leadership voices work where McKinnon is, you know, he’s a leader in a sense, but Landis Gog is going to be a louder voice than him. I think even Mar is probably more respected as a vocal leader in the ABS locker room, but on the ice, Nathan McKinnon absolutely leads by example every single night. and when he is getting the job done in the way he did tonight. Again, we talked about it in the pregame. Jack Hughes and Yesper Brat and New Jersey’s first line is not a pushover. This is not a team that has lack one or whatever they were coming in. Yeah. And and Nathan McKinnon said, “Watch me work to those kids. He’s just he’s such a freak athlete and he’s so dangerous that kind of going back to what you’re saying of of don’t let the pursuit of of perfection, you know, get in the way of being good enough. It’s like, okay, well, you’re good enough is better than just about everybody else. Cool. Uh, we will save our first star for a little bit, and you all know who it is anyway, because I want to get Bailey’s thoughts on this, too. It’s time for the courtesy call live from Ball Arena. Bailey, thank you for joining us. I’ve got to ask because that another silly fact about me with all the hockey I’ve watched, never seen a hat-tick in person. Really? I’ve never got the opportunity to throw a hat onto the ice. They’re fun. Yeah. I mean, this one was fun. Would you throw your hat if you were in the stands? Cuz I I said in the watch along, I was like, I got some cool hats. I don’t know if I want to throw my hat. I come from a very superstitious family. Um, funny story. So my dad when he went to uh Kane’s game with a friend of his, his friend had a Stanley Cup hat that he got from the 2006 Stanley Cup win. And my whole thing is don’t wear hats you care about to games. My dad took the hat that my friend, you know, that that was like his sacred hat and threw it onto the ice and they didn’t talk for like a year before my dad was like, “Whoops, sorry.” So yeah, don’t throw hat don’t don’t wear hats you care about to games. I am absolutely the absolutely the person if you’re at a game where a hat-tick is scored, that thing needs to go on the ice ASAP. Let’s go. The right take. So there we go. You got to be sitting close enough to the ice, which would another factor that I don’t really have to worry about. Eventually it’s somebody’s there. They’ll they’ll take any excuse to throw any extra hat that’s thrown at them. It’s it’s fine. and it’ll make it there eventually. If you’re on the third deck and you don’t throw it, I’m not going to be that upset about it. Uh Olivesson, obviously the big breakout, a five-point night for him. How much of this was coming? How how much of this was just destined for Olivesson to finally bust that dam? It’s it’s something I talked to Jared Bedar about actually in the postgame pressure presser which I’m sure will be shown later, but that that’s kind of the thought is he’s really fit in well to the process. Aside from getting on the score sheet, this is a guy who’s been contributing in different facets of the game on the ice and this is finally it it feels like this game as a whole was coming for the team, but especially for a guy like Victor Olifson who’s thrown chance after chance after chance on the net and he finally gets rewarded. He’s had some dangerous opportunities so far through 11 games and this is the night where things finally kind of seemed like they were starting to go his way. Yeah, it’s I mean everything went his way I I would say in this one. Um but you get that from Olivesson, you get the ABS power play breakout too. Obviously super fun in the moment. Is there any fear that too much all at once? Can the ABS take this and turn it into consistency in these areas? It is a very small sample size to work from, but there is a lot of good to take out of this. Mainly the shooting aspect. Uh it seemed like everybody had their shooting hats on today and if that’s something that can continue, I see no reason why this power play should not continue to have success. that that seems like the biggest, you know, fix it. It is a small sample size. You know, one game you get four out of six to go your way, but it seems like if the process from tonight continues and and they don’t kind of get a little buggy from it and scared away from it a little bit, it seems like as long as that continues, the again, this is a check on the to-do list. Is that the best the power play has looked in a couple years? I’m sure there’s been a random game here or there. It I I can’t remember. I’m sure the ABS had a night where they went one for one or something that ended up 100%. But with a real number of opportunities, I think that’s the most efficient it’s been in a very very long time. It’s very easy to be excited about something like that, too. Not taking Victor Olivesson’s situation out of the equation. I feel like if this were just one problem for the avalanche that was fixed tonight and that was the power play, like I’d be happy. Amen. Uh thoughts on that second period because it ultimately it’s a period that was technically tied. Both teams scored four goals in it, but the ABS give up four straight goals in a pretty short span there. Is this hey, fix it now or is this a situation? Don’t overthink it. You won this game eight to four. I I I hate it being the both conversation. I think there You’re so good at asking both questions. Oh gosh, we really need to curb that habit. Um no, I I think in a situation like this, you see the team fall asleep a little bit and toward it seems like in second intermission that was curbed really quickly. So I I think they they were really quickly to pick themselves up. Overall, I thought the second period was a little sluggish and you finally see them start to fall in that hole in that five minute stretch. Um, but I I think they picked it up really quickly. And the thing that I’m thinking about here, too, is you convert on four of those six power play chances. And if that doesn’t happen, this is a completely different hockey game. So, I I think taking the small victories is something that Avalanche should take out of this. You get out of the loss column, back into the wins. take that and and go into the rest of the week with that 100%. It’s It feels good to be back in the W column, however you get there, and it ended up being a pretty fun way to get there. I want I ask both of you and I’ll come up with one myself. Eight goals. Pick your favorite. That first Victor Olivesson goal just kind of did something to me. Beautiful. Yeah. I I think if it’s not that one, it’s the Bardikov goal. And I say this because there there’s something about firsts that are just so exciting for me. Finally seeing somebody get rewarded for having a good game, which Bartikov, I want to give my flowers to, had an amazing game. This was easily his best so far. Yeah. But something about first goals in an ABS sweater, it’s it’s the epitome of greatness. I I loved watching both of those, but if I had to pick one, Victor Olison’s first was just kind of like inject it like it it’s amazing. Yeah. I feel like if we’re going aesthetics or vibes, we’ve already addressed them, but I’m going to go to the McKinnon response goal to end the run the game probably. That’s that’s what you need from your best players. You know, let’s try let’s get this game back in control. It wasn’t a highlight goal. It’s not one you’re going to look back on at the end of the year. Oh man, what a what a play from Mac. But when things were maybe a little bit hairy there for for a couple minutes, it it it put the the game back in in control. And this always should have been a multi-goal win. Yeah. Seems like that was a bit of a wakeup call for this team, though, too. And that that’s that’s part of why I would say if I if I were to pick a third, maybe that’s the one, but that was a wakeup call for the AB. Exactly. The leading by example I was talking about earlier with McKinnon. Uh Jackie Moon in the chat. I kind of agree with him. That Kelly goal was absolutely filthy. Uh, Jacob Marstrom still hasn’t recovered his groin from from that backhand move by Kelly. So, uh, and you know, if if Valenushkin does that, you’re like, “Wow, that’s a really good goal.” But that’s what Valenushkin does. When Parker Kelly drops that move on a guy, it’s like, should we play this guy in the shootout? Like, I mean, maybe. Can’t be worse than some of those guys that they’ve put out so far. Yes, I will say that. Like I know that was somewhat tongue tongue and cheek, but if he’s got the moves, why not? Again, we’re talking about a guy on the fourth line, too. Yep. Exactly. That’s Whoa. Uh Bailey, we do need to get to our break here in a minute here. So, final thoughts before we let you go. ABS were due for a game like this. I repeat what I came in here saying. It’s It seems like every chance that they’ve taken so far this season, they’ve run into a good goalender, they’ve run into a good defense, going off the post, situations like that. This was a great kind of, you know, let’s put the last four losses behind us because we know we’re a good hockey team and this is what we can do. All right, perfect. Love it. Thank you for calling in as always, Bailey. We will hear from Jared Bednar in a minute, which Bailey also got for us. We appreciate y’all and uh I’m sure we’ll talk to you again, I guess tomorrow. You’ll be you’ll be there. So, see you later, guys. See you. 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Third period of the DNVR Avalanche podcast. Uh Bailey alluded to Jared Bednar’s thoughts. He had quite a bit to say about this game. So, let’s hear from the ABS head coach on the 84 win. Coach, are you going to be more? Hang on. I’ll call on you guys. Dac, go ahead. Come on. You’ve been around a long time. Is it more frustrating uh because of what happened this second or more rewarding to just see how everything was kind of clicking today? It’s definitely not frustrating. I think you got to celebrate the wins. They’re hard to get in this league. And you know, we did a lot of really good things tonight. A lot of really good things. It looked to me like we were standing around a little bit in the first period on our half of the rink. Like our forch check was up and running and we were looked like we had a good shot mentality and seeing some things offensively. Um learned a little bit from our first game against them. Um at the same time then the second period I thought we really got skating and started to play some hockey but we some of our decision making like without the puck um was just not good. So to me I don’t know if that that can be fatigue you know guys are ready to work and everything but their brains just weren’t turned on. Um and we were coming off the back to back yesterday’s day off seemed like it flew right by and we were back here again today. It’s a tough game against a really good team that’s playing well. Um, so yeah, we we just adjusted our plan for the next couple days. You know, I think tomorrow we’ll take a good day off at home and get some good quality video review in and talk about our first segment, what we’ve been doing well and what we need to improve on and kind of go into this back to back this weekend a little bit more rested. Jesse, then Bailey, coach, four power play goals coming into tonight, then four tonight, I guess. But what did you see that was different or was it just the puck was going in? Well, I’ll give you one thing. Looked like tonight everyone wanted to shoot it right there. It wasn’t skate around, look for the perfect play. It was Marty’s hammering it right away. Kale’s hammering it right away. Max’s hammering it right away. And then we got one and then they just kept doing it. Oolie, same thing. Everyone wanted to shoot the puck tonight, you know. Um, and we’ve got some really good shooters up there. And sure, teams are going to put pressure on you and try to take them away, but it doesn’t have to be the perfect shot all the time. You know, I think we can learn a lot just from that today. And and they’ve been like sticking with it. The meetings have been good. The discussion’s been good between the players. It’s knew it was going to come at some point. Good night to get a bunch. Bailey and Cory, guy you already mentioned, Victor Olivesson gets on the board with a hattick. It seems like some of the chances that he’s been taking so far this season just maybe haven’t gone his way. Yeah. gets on the board a couple times. Just what are your thoughts on him tonight? Good night. Again, I mean, this is, you know, a lot of the reason why we got him. He’s an elite shooter and you look at those goals he scored tonight and they’re great shots. No wasting any time and I mean, he can unload it and it’s a deceptive shot. U I’ve liked the rest of his game though. Like his detail to his game has been really good. And I think the pace on of his game on most nights, he’s shown some explosiveness and helped create some good chances. And you know, sometimes they go in for you, sometimes they don’t. But then like tonight, just kind of the way the power play was going and some of the opportunities uh that his line’s been getting five on five, you know, he get gets rewarded tonight. Like like making that change with um Colton and Landy last game helped both lines last game. We talked about um you know Colton going up and helping the Nelson line, but Landy was that line was really good for us late in the New Jersey game, the jury line. And then tonight they had a really good night again. So we liked liked a couple of things that those guys have been doing. Cory, then Eric, is there was there anything you thought that changed when it was 54 that settled things down or just you know the you know it was it would look like it was turning into a fire wagon thing and just you know what happened after that? Well, I like like our commitment to check and do the right things within the structure of our game away from the puck in the third period. It was looking really good and then we gave up another handful of big chances, too. Um I don’t know like it it’s a commitment. It’s not getting comfortable. You know, it’s the first time this year we’ve had a really big lead. um seemed like maybe was going to go easy for us and but they’re a dangerous team, right? Like they even though we made mistakes, they made some plays, right? And you know, like they’re they were different, you know, like we have the turnover burns, they score. We have a bad pinch by Manson, they come down, they score. Then we got a lazy back check. So, it’s a it wasn’t one guy or one thing. It’s just things you have to be sharper on on a nightly basis to win in this league if you’re not going to score eight every night. Um, so we’ll just review it and look at it, learn from it, and move on. Erin, Ryan, the Carolina game, I think it was the one where you guys were 0 for seven on the PP before that late goal. Yeah, this one kind of felt like the complete like the anti that game. It was like the first PP was a goal. You got five on three, took advantage. It was 54, you scored. Like is that confidence? Like is that just like what how do you describe that in a stretch? Yeah. Well, I mean the other team has something to say about it too, right? You have to handle what you control. You got to be sharp. Your puck movement’s got to be good. You know, everyone’s got to kind of have the same mentality. Like I talked about the shooting mentality even on the five on three. Like every you know, we have three really good shooting looks before Max scores, right? like the save he made on Kale coming across was outstanding and so I don’t know it just seemed like we were feeling it a little bit and that we wanted to shoot it and everyone wanted to score and part of that you have to have that mentality you know and um so I think part you know the group just comes in with really good focus really good intentions and didn’t stray away from it we’re going to go over here to Evan then John Jackan some of his way in the lineup these last two games. I know you liked him in camp. He broke the team out of camp. Like what have you seen that maybe he was being a good favorite? I mean, he’s I mean, he’s played pretty good for us all through camp, all through exhibition in both these games, you know. Um, so we want to keep him playing with the Eagles and us. And we also like what Sovia has been doing as well. Different guys, different game. Um, so a smaller puck moving team, you know, last couple Jersey and and that’s one of Jack’s strengths. You know, he’s a good defender and he’s a good puck mover. He gets involved. You see him get involved in the one goal tonight. Um, and he does it on the regular. So depending on who we’re playing and how guys are playing and how we want to sort of structure our back end, he’ll see some time with us this year. juggling. When it becomes kind of a late night SEC football game, both teams are are just lighting up the scoreboard against a potent team, you just just have to go with it and just keep going. Is that kind of mentality you have to have? Well, we talked about cleaning up some of the things defensively after the first even. Like I thought we were standing around a bit like I said, so I wanted us to get more assertive with our checking game. We did that in the second then made some bad decisions and like it’s you know games throughout the course of the year they’re going to be different and different challenges you some nights it’ll feel like you can’t create a scoring chance and you’re you’re defending real well and it’s one- nothing and and then other games just going in every chance a team gets going in and um both teams were making mistakes both teams were making plays and you’re just trying to get your team focus focused on the right things cuz I felt like the offensive side of it tonight was going to take care of itself. We just needed to be better than they were on the checking side of it and eventually we got there and were able to get a win. It wasn’t certainly wasn’t perfect. There’s a lot more in that game than probably any other game that I’d want to clean up like from the structure of our game, but there was also a lot of nice playmaking. So, we got to find the balance in it. Last two. Megan calling gets his first NHL goal and draws a penalty. I was curious what it was about his night that made it so effective. Best game he’s played for sure. Um the whole line was good. So I I think that you they all looked fantastic’s game. And they’ve been you know Hack had a meeting with them this morning actually because they’ve been really good when they get in the offensive zone. they’re just not getting there very much, right? So, they spend too much time defending and on their own half of the rank and then changing. And so, they talked about some specific things that they could do, get a little bit more connected as a group, you know, being in the same area with all three guys. Um, they had a good meeting. They felt good about coming out of that. Um, and they went out and backed it up on the ice. So, I think you get all three guys playing well on the same night and it can look like that. That’s a repeatable game from all three of those guys, I think. Thanks for calling. What can you say about Scott Wedgewood just going through that game and having that four minutes of kind of chaos and then, you know, just pulling it together and keeping in that game? Yep. It’s same kind of thing as our team, right? He’s going through it the the same as the rest of our team. You got to refocus. You got to understand that, hey, you’re in a good spot. you’re you’re making a lot of plays and and you’re um you haven’t been perfect defensively. Um his job I guess at that point, you know, for a while there it looked like he just needed to make one more save than their guy. Um so you got he just refocused and you know, again, really good third period, made some big saves in the third as well, you know, so um good veteran presence back there gets the job done for us. Thanks, sir. Thank you. [Music] I love listening to him talk. I genuinely think I agreed with every single word that came out of his mouth during that was like a 10-minute long presser and he said all of the right things. I think it’s just a perfect example of what makes him such an incredible coach. I mean, the success is one thing, but just how articulate he is and the way he’s able to communicate everything, I just Yep. You know, obviously none of us have played sports at that level, especially now that that he’s not in the picture anymore. But, you know, like you know what it’s like to play for a meatthead coach who just screams at you and you know, like that that’s just not Bedsy. Yeah. Right. And you know, younger generation tends to want things explained to them. Yeah. It’s different people. You have you have to be a communic I mean I see it in as somebody who works in college sports obviously like the amount of dinosaurs that have become obsolete even just in the last two to three years because of the change that’s happened and obviously that’s going to trickle all the way up and yep it it works all the way up and I do think it’s an important point Jared Benner talked so much in that interview about New Jerseyy’s good like they they’re allowed to make good plays on the other side too probably not just going to beat them 150 right it’s a there are two teams trying to win this hockey game. And a statistic jumping off of that, and I know it’s a little weird cuz game situations do matter, but ultimately the ABS scored four power play goals. New Jersey scored zero. So that means they also broke even at five on five. The ABS also scored four goals at five on five to equal New Jerseys four goals at five on five. There are very few situations in this game they were really good. Yeah, that like yes, there were major mistakes. Yes, there were things you want to clean up, but so many facets of this game were actually the ABS just being the better team. You can choose to fixate on three to four minutes of the other team also making some plays. Yep. Or you can look at the start. You can look at the response. You can look at the way they finished. I mean, this was such an encouraging performance. Victory. We got the victory shots. Shout out to everybody. Dr. Dubs in the chat. Appreciate y’all as always. is over 100 likes is always great to see. Cinnamon. That tastes like college. That does taste like college. That’s a This game felt a little bit like a college game. It did. It had some vibes to it. Like this could have been at Magnus Dc vibes. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe not quite as hateful. Yeah. I do think that’s an interesting thing. I didn’t know that we were going to end up here, but this New Jersey team feels a little soft. I like it. I I Let’s get spicy. They have the talent. Get some cinnamon in you. And here we go. Yeah. Yeah, I know. I I think they’re extremely talented. I mean, when you look at their production this year, that shines through. We talked about Hughes and Brat in the pregame, but guys like Mercer down their lineup, they have a ton of talent. But what happens when someone steps up and blows a guy up? What happens when the ABS are winning those battles in the corners by simply being stronger? And the answer for the Devils tonight was not a lot. When the ABS decided they wanted to have the puck, they got the puck. New Jersey never really got in anybody’s faces. They never really did anything to try and stir the pot. Is that a product of some of their key guys just maybe just being young? Yeah, I you I don’t think they’re really that particularly small, but they do not have a lot of guys that archetype as that physical style of play. And that’s been a complaint about the Colorado Avalanche for the last couple of years. And it’s interesting to see that conversation flipped to where it’s not like the ABS were out there, you know, ratting on guys and and doing crazy stuff, but they were willing to step up into the hits. They were willing to take hits to make plays and then receive at least as good as they get, if not better. And it just makes life harder for the other team to, you know, you still can absolutely overcome that. It’s not like, oh, you’re going to win the game because you played 75 hits. Half the time that you’re putting yourself out of position for those hits, but especially in a game that runs long, it’s 6-4 going into the third period and you’ve been laying into them all night. They look up at the blue line and say, “Maybe I dumped this one in.” instead of getting crushed along the boards, especially you’re down multiple goals like that. It all kind of compounds together, right? You establish the early lead, you get that momentum, now human nature sets in, you’re on your heels a little bit, and then they just wear you down. Yep. It’s It’s so It’s so hard to overcome that physical aspect of it. You can be in the best shape in the world, but that 30th time you have to go into the end boards and say, “I’ve got to take this hit to make this play,” your body’s just going to tense up. It’s going to know what’s going on. It’s not just the Mansons of the world either. You know, like the ABS forwards are very physical. It and and not even necessarily just the physicality, but the forcheek was a monster. It was great today. They were all over the place. You start to put teams in boxes at that point. like New Jersey just feels like they’re getting suffocated at times in this game outside of that crazy stretch where they couldn’t miss. And that plays part of the mental, too. You start to see teams get frustrated. You start to see see teams that third period, New Jersey had multiple grade A chances that they just missed the net on because they’re feeling the pressure. They’re squeezing those sticks because the ABS haven’t given them that royal road back into this game. And it turns into a easy win ultimately for the ABS because of some of that. What was the most encouraging thing in all of this? Just kind of putting a bow on kind of transitioning here into our end of thoughts. I mean, I think it has to be the power play, right? Um, it’s again, they’re not going to go four for six every night, but watching a power play that you genuinely believe could score every night that the way the power play looked tonight that will score on the regular, not just Nas and McKinnon. The ABS power play so often falls into that twoman game. Sometimes it’s like McKinnon and Macar, but Olivesson scores goals. You have Nushkin doing good work netfront, screening goalies, making his life hard. The five on three in particular, the ABS willingness to play actual offense. Mar is below the top of the circles on that five on three. They are fully committed to getting into the dangerous areas of the ice and scoring the goals. And I think that’s part of what the power play is. We’ve talked about this a lot how it’s like how the ABS need to shoot more and and that’ll create more opportunities. I think at times, especially over the last couple of games, the ABS didn’t believe they were going to score and so they didn’t do the things you need to do to make sure that puck has an opportunity to go in the net. Not yes, they’d shoot, but it’d be a Brock Nelson shot to the chest. It’d be a Nathan McKinnon double clutching a puck and it shoots it right into a pad. They believe they’re going to score on the thing now. when the pucks are in fact scoring. No, I just want to see you lean into this mentality. Don’t revert to some of your old habits. Yeah, you build off of it. You you saw what it could be 100. And I think that’s true of the majority of this game. It has to keep going. Okay, you dropped eight on a team. Awesome. That was a super fun game. You go out and score one in the next one, we’re right back in the same room, right? And it got to remember now you’re going into kind of a weird situation. Another weird weekday day game. Yep. Halloween gonna be weird. And it is against Vegas, who is another good team so far this year. Very similar start to the seasons of the ABS. Actually, no rest for the wicked. And never never anything but wicked in Vegas, that’s for sure. I meant to ask you this earlier because, you know, going into the game, we we highlighted needing to have quality special teams play. Yep. touched on that a little bit earlier, but you know, in the last game we talked about how there just weren’t a lot of penalties called. Like you had the one two-minute power play and then you had the overlap, the fouron four. We got it like one and a half power plays essentially. Yep. They definitely called this game tighter. Some tickytack calls both ways. Stuff for sure. They also just like 100% keep it 100 with you. It was even like you they were ticky tacky both ways. Sam Molinsky straight up knocked the puck out. It should have been a delay a game penalty. Like 100% missed a penalty. That was a break that went the ABS way. It happens. The ABS also had a penalty missed on the uh Devils in overtime the other day where they straight up tripped a guy and it didn’t get called. So did calls are a part of it, right? You have to play through that to a certain extent. So, but did you feel like the amount of penalties the ABS drew more of a product of their pace and and assertiveness rather than it just being as simple as, oh, they just called it tighter. 100%. The ABS. This is what they do to teams that can’t keep up. And it’s a little bit surprising to me that New Jersey couldn’t keep up. They were a team I had pegged that could kind of play that high octane game with them. But New Jersey got caught chasing the ABS multiple times this game and it led to some of those power play opportunities. And after tonight, you actually feel like, hey, the ABS are actually dangerous with those. So great, they put themselves in a position to win. They executed and they won. God, what a fun game. It’s probably the funnest game of the season. I at least for the ABS, you I mean, I don’t I try to watch other games as often as I can, but I’m sure there’s been some other crazy ones out there. But the catharsis in this game of it being like finally they needed this in so many ways just you needed you needed something out of the power play. You needed a game where it felt like you were awarded like I think one of the things that’s tough about a game like this is it could have gone the other way where it’s like you have all these high quality chances they don’t go in the power play still feels like a mess and then it’s easier to revert. I always kind of go back to on my Rams pod, the comparison of being at the gym. Like it it’s really hard to stick with it when you’re not getting the the tangible proof of growth, you know, when you’re when you don’t have the moments. At some point, you need it. You need that proof of concept that like this is worth it. Yep. This is that type of game. If we do this, good things are going to happen. I’m going to feel good. I’m going to continue to do it. And just to like reiterate because at times the ABS had a lead and sat back on it and you felt like their process wasn’t great, but at the end of the night at five on five, Corsy attempts 48 to 52 in New Jersey’s favor. As close enough to dead even as you could reasonably ask for. Scoring chances uh 26 to 28 in New Jersey’s favor. As close as to even as you could reasonably ask for and high danger chances 12 to six in the ABS favor at five on five. expected goals generated. The ABS 3.4 3.04 uh New Jersey 2.59. The ABS didn’t just get a big lead and sit back and not do a whole lot this game and rely exclusively on the power play to carry them. They outplayed New Jersey. Yeah, they made massive mistakes. They gave up bad goals, but they outplayed New Jersey on the night in a game that they led 97% of. This was not a game where the ABS went, got a lead, went away, and New Jersey just couldn’t get it close enough to get over the hump. This was a game where the ABS earned it. And if you you lean into the more cynical side of of fandom and and you really want to fixate on the well, this could have gone wrong and this very easily could have got been a blown win. Sure, that’s fair. What’s also fair to say is this very easily could have been a 6-1 type situation where two of those flukier goals don’t go in and it’s just a straightup route, right? It it works both ways. Yeah. I I’m just especially where it feels like so many things finally fell into place for the ABS. I’m not all that focused on the bad in this game, which there was some. Again, I don’t want to take it away. You you can absolutely point out plays that need to be better for the ABS, but even you know, Bedar said it himself, you got to focus on the positives when you need a win and you get a win. Nobody asks how you win a Stanley Cup. Nobody asks exactly how many points you had in the regular season. I mean, did you win it, right? If you won, you won. And not only did you win, your underlyings are fine. Like, you didn’t dominate this team unbelievably, but a lot of that is score effects. You didn’t have a perfect game because you didn’t need a perfect game. You did what you needed to do. We’ll have to see obviously who’s in in net for the Vegas game. Interesting one. What are your thoughts I guess on Wedgewood because we we talked about it a little bit at the beginning. We haven’t spent a ton of time on him. Just I don’t feel like it was a a bad game from him. Also kind of feels like the the same point I keep coming back to, which is that, you know, he’s he’s a backup goalie. If he can make one or two saves above expected per game as long as you’re not giving up cheapies left and right, yeah, you’re doing what is being asked of you, which is basically to, you know, keep the keep the dam from breaking until you can get your guy back. That’s all you can ask for. And was he unbelievably good tonight? No. Was he good enough? Yes. If he’s better than the guy at the other other end of the ice, what more can you ask for? Wedgewood is he’s done the job and then some. Yeah, he had a couple of bad games there, but he’s held down the fort for the ABS in a way that they needed him to. And great, now you get to live in a world of when does Blackwood get his start, whatever. Blah blah blah blah. We don’t have to get into that. We can talk about that on tomorrow’s show. Um, but yeah, I don’t think you have any disappointment in Wedgewood tonight. Of course, you would like less goals to go in, but Well, I’m not saying and I don’t know if the the comment in the chat is saying it like mocking what what we’re saying in the sense of like, okay, I guess we’ll just ignore it or if it’s like, yeah, we’ll just ignore that because it was so good. I think it is too. If if you are on the cynical side of things though, it’s like they are a good team. Yes, you’re probably like you’re you’re not going to dominate 60 Minutes very often against a genuinely good team. And it’s just again it falls back to that human nature conversation of you’re up 5. Like if that game was two to nothing and 10 minutes into the second period I don’t think we see a swing of momentum the way we saw. I’m with I’m really kind of with you where really the fourth goal was the only one that had me feeling some sort of actual genuine concern and that was more of just like all right like now seriously wake up right and then they did and everything was great. So awesome. Uh, we are headed into overtime here. Continue the conversation online with us at the dnvr.com. And once we do head into overtime, looks like we do have one super chat here. $10 from the shik who says, “First live. I’ve made it to this season. Just super stoked on this team. Also wanted to say I love the addition of Bailey and love to see Justin Moore. Welcome to the family. Let’s go.” Oh, thank you. Super excited about the crew we’ve got for the year. It’s I’m going to I’m I’m going to be on more. We’re going to make it happen. Yeah. Got about a month more of a miserable college football season that I cannot wait to stop talking about. So, the more hockey I can talk. Let’s go. Let’s do it. You got a good team in the fold now. I You know, we saw Jackie Moon in the chat. I feel like Ricky Bobby. I I don’t know what to do with my hands. Let’s go. It’s that time. Feels good. Vibes are good. a game the ABS needed to like like let’s be honest if you’re sitting in a room where the ABS have lost five straight even if a bunch of those are in overtime you’re going this is starting to become a problem losing four is never ideal. Yeah. But but a game like that feels like all the things the ABS have been building towards came into place. Now you get a couple days off, you get to reset a little bit and then you get another weird backtoback. But ABS, look, if they go out and win a couple more, all of a sudden, you’re flying on top of the moon. If they split those, you feel pretty okay with it. They do need to keep it up, though. Consistency is the mark of great teams. One big win, you get to celebrate tonight, and then you go back to work. Win is a win, baby. It’s always more fun to win. Yes, sir. I’m good. Any final thoughts, Jike? Uh, I’m good. I mean, we’re late. I don’t want to go too long, go on on side tangents. I had just some random commentary. New Jersey up there with Nashville for the most mid uniforms in the NHL. They are very boring logo. Uninspiring kit alto together. Are you a Halloween guy? Uh sometime. My wife is very big into Halloween so I have to by default. I bought candy for trick-or-treaters. I’m trying to be a real grown-up. Let’s go. It’s expensive. It is not cheap. You buy candy after Halloween. That’s the It’s dirt cheap after Halloween. That’s the key. Uh yeah. Yeah, candy uh is expensive. We do the thing where we just leave a bowl out because we have dogs. Yeah. So do I. My dog is not going to love it. So I think one kid is going to end up with the $11 worth of candy I bought today. You know someone’s dumping that bowl for sure. Uh all right, we are going to wrap this thing up though. We will be live tomorrow for an off day show. So make sure you tune in there. Well, we will talk about when does Blackwood get a start and maybe some of these other conversations from this game. But we appreciate all y’all hanging out. 140 likes. That’s awesome. We love to see you. We’ll talk to you tomorrow. This has been the DNVR Avalanche podcast presented by Bet 365. [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Avs pot eight goals in clouding a hat trick from Olofsson, 2 from MacKinnon, Necas, Kelly, and Bardakov also scored. The Powerplay folonally course corrected and despite a crazy 3nd period the Avs run away with it

Intro – 0:00
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Hear from Bednar – 34:40
Love Bedsy – 45:00
Devils kinda soft? – 47:38
Cathartic game – 52:49
Wedgewood – 58:00
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