All Of The Avs Are Good | Avalanche Review Game 15

All Of The Avs Are Good | Avalanche Review Game 15

So basically, if the goalender opposing the ABS doesn’t have his best game of the season, the ABS drop a football score on that team. ABS win over the Edmonton Oilers 9 to1. This game was close for the first 10 minutes, but as soon as the AS scored, this game pretty much got over in a hurry. I’ve got to say, I’ve never seen a game where four players on the same team all had multi-goal nights. So even when you think you’ve seen it all, there’s always something new. The game itself was wonderful. And yes, a significant amount of the ABS success in this game boils down to Edmonton’s goalending being garbage here. But I think it’s worth noting against poor goalending, the ABS shot the puck well enough. There aren’t a ton of goals that you look at in this game and go, “That was an unbelievable shot from the ABS, but they were shooting the puck.” There are not a lot of teams, even against weak goalending, that are going to put up a nine spot. And honestly, in the past less than a year, there are versions of the Colorado Avalanche that find a way to struggle to score in this game. But the Yaz recognized the situation, recognized the goalending for Edmonton was bad, threw pucks to the net, and got rewarded for it. I’m trying to think of the last time I saw eight 5v5 goals in a game. And the answer to that might also be never. Nine goals without a power play goal. The extra goal is actually a short-handed one. Pretty silly stuff from the ABS. And I mean that in a good way. Yes, the power play went over seven. Yes, the power play was bad at times. Just not having that conversation in this one. Acknowledge. But moving on. The first 10 minutes was weird. Both teams took multiple penalties, had power plays, some of which were chopped off and reduced, and it was a little all over the place. Good job by the ABS penalty kill and Scott Wedgewood to not allow Edmonton to thrive in an area they’re very good at early. And with the ABS weathering the early game weirdness, you feed it off to the best defensive pairing in the NHL. ABS top line working along the boards here. They get it back to Taves initially. They go in deep. It’s just good work from the ABS. Lucky is here. He’s able to get it back up the wall and Nathan McKinnon is ready to make a play along the boards. He holds the puck maybe a little bit longer than you’re comfortable with. But this is what superstars do. They protect the puck and they make plays. He gets two players to commit to him. Gets the puck up to Taves. This forces Edmonton into an awkward spot where what should be the F1 went down to help. And now your F1 is out here alone. Has to commit to the puck carrier which leaves a guy named Kale Mar essentially uncovered from the blue line with a big lane into the circle. Now, this isn’t an unbelievably high danger chance or anything, but it’s enough for a quality chance for Macar, and he’s able to make it count past Skinner. One, Edmonton’s defense way bad. Two, Edmonton’s goalending not very good, but that was at least a pretty high quality shot from Kale. A minute later, we do the same thing. A McKinnon secretly getting good at faceoffs this year. It’s been a notable thing in the start of the season. He’s going to eventually win this one as the puck gets dropped. Taves to Mar. Edmonton once again has forgotten to cover maybe the most dangerous player on the ice. Macar is able to get even a little bit deeper than last time, but puts on a much worse shot in my opinion, but Steuart Skinner, oopsie. Yeah, that one’s got to be a save from an NHL goalender. Nonetheless, even if those are a bit of soft goals, you got the goods from the ABS top pairing in this game. A multi-goal night for Kale and Ta would pick up a third assist later in the game. Five points from your top pairing. Yeah, pretty good. The defense as a whole easily outscored Edmonton in this game with seven points total and obviously the two goals from Macar. And that’s true of a bunch of portions of the ABS lineup. The ABS topline guys outscored the Edmonton Oilers by themselves. The ABS third line guys outscored the Edmonton Oilers by themselves. The ABS fourth line guys outscored the Edmonton Oilers by themselves. The ABS penalty kill scored as many goals as the Oilers did in this game. It was an absolute shellacking. This game got over in a hurry, but it could have been even faster. The ABS put another puck in the back of the net in the first period. Gabe Lanniskog looking to have scored his first of the season again was once again offside. This one was at least pretty clearly offside and by the rulebook the right call. But this is getting awfully frustrating and I think Landisk’s reaction sums it up for all of us. Even with that goal taken off the board, it’s still a great first period for the ABS and the game would only get better from there. Up two, you’re expecting a heavy push early in the second period from Edmonton to get themselves back in the game. But honestly, it was almost the opposite. The ABS got out the shovel and just started burying. Let’s just watch the fourth line work. Molinsky up into the neutral zone. Kelly’s going to get the line and just get it in deep. Don’t do anything fancy. Put it to dangerous spots. Go to work. Bikov wins the race to the puck. Creates it’s a bit of a board battle along the wall, but does a good job to get it back up to his point and his blue man blue man Dman even. Uh Molinsky lets the shot go. Edmonton. I genuinely don’t know what this defense is, but a great job by Brinley to get in behind them and get to the front of the net. So, when this rebound comes off, there is nobody to contest them, and it’s a nice backhand finish. Simple, smart hockey works in every situation against every team in the league. Get puck possession, keep puck possession, get pucks to net, go to net. You put those four things together, you find goals. Great work from Gavin Brinley to find the soft spots. Yes, again, Edmonton’s defense is bad, but the ABS are a good enough team to take advantage of it. And by the way, welcome back to the lineup, Gavin Brinley. The games you’re getting out of this guy, we may genuinely see a guy turning into a decadel long NHL player. He has what it takes to be a grinder in the NHL, even at his small size. And there’s enough skill there that, you know, maybe you can dream on that a little bit. But why stop there? Add another goal 2 minutes later. The start of this play is a mess from the ABS, if I’m honest. a drop pass that isn’t very good, but Manson collects it. A shot that is bad and actively gets blocked, but Manson keeps working and the ABS just outworked Edmonton all night in this game. Some of that is Edmonton’s weakness, but the ABS also put in the work. Manson wins this puck, gets it back out to safety. Oliffson finds Burns as the open man, and the ABS mostly give up on this shift. Three guys just head off to change for the Colorado Avalanche as Burns collects this puck. But the guy who doesn’t and Jack Drury goes right to the middle of the ice and Burns does a ridiculously good job here. He winds up for a clapper and doesn’t give this away at all. He is locked in staring at Skinner trying to tell him he’s going to shoot this puck. He doesn’t though. It’s going to be a slap pass. And what a slap pass. Perfectly through essentially two Oilers defenders to hit Jack streaking into the hash marks and Jack puts the perfect redirect on it for some ugly ones. That one is beautiful. This may well have been Brent Burn’s best game as an AB. I know he only had the one point and it was not a perfect game, but high quality from him. It’s probably also one of Jack Drury’s best games as an AB, if not the best. Same goes for Parker Kelly. Same goes for Gavin Brinley. A lot of the ABS lineup really turned in a spades plus game. The ABS getting it from absolutely everywhere tonight. Of course, you need that to get to nine probably. And while Edmonton isn’t off to the greatest start, to go out and pump them the way the ABS did in this game is nothing but awesome. We’re not even to the halfway mark of the game. And the fourth line strikes again to make it 5 nothing. The ABS depth is actually pretty capable of doing pretty stuff. First of all, more nonsense from Edmonton, but Brinley right there to jump on the play. Doesn’t do a great job, but quickly a puck found by your other fourth and Kelly. He gets it out up high. The ABS are able to reset. Ashawn goes across to Molinsky who puts a bad shot on it. So, some good, some bad, a little bit of silliness, but the ABS first pucks everywhere. Ashawn down the wall. Bartico turns and just gets this in deep by whacking at it. Brinley is in behind the net. Tries to go for the fancy highle pass. It doesn’t work, but it does work because if you get it out to a good area, good bounces happen. And who’s Johnny on the spot? This time it’s Parker Kelly. We need to talk about Parker Kelly on the backhand, but we’ll wait a goal. It’s not even that clean of a play, but Gavin Brinley puts a puck to a dangerous area. You maybe get a bit of a fortunate bounce and someone is there and Parker Kelly to clean it up. The fourth line is playing hockey the right way and they’re getting rewarded for it. The depth of the ABS does feel like they have enough skill this year where those plays, not all the time, are going to end up in the back of the net, but often enough when they generate enough of those opportunities, they’re going to go in. And that’s a little over half the story of how you put nine goals in the back of the net. The ABS do give one back here. Edmonton on the power play. Conor McDavid fires a puck into the back of your net. He’s Conor McDavid. I’m not even going to be that upset about this. Maybe you’d like a little bit better discipline from the ABS, especially when they started to stretch their lead in this game. The ABS would take another penalty shortly after that. And I get a little bit of fear worrying about the ABS having another stretch like they did in the New Jersey game. You don’t love giving up a ton of goals at once in these games that should be easy for you. And the ABS do in fact make this easy. Even if there are some penalties, just score on the penalty kill. Another missed faceoff that leads immediately to a goal. By the way, do better. We can do this. Apparently Edmonton won it. But a bit of a weak pass and Parker Kelly’s undeniable work ethic to just get to every puck under the sun creates a clean breakaway for himself as uh Edund Buchard just has to watch. Parker Kelly cuts in as fans know he’s going to the backhand and it seems to work every time. Parker Kelly might have the best move on the abs on a breakaway right now. Like, not even joking. Whatever it is about how he moves to that backhand, he just gets goalies to bite on the front hand side. If we’re being honest, the game was probably over already at that point, but that Kelly goal was just the absolute final nail in this cushion coffin. Really, the third period was mostly just the AB stat padding. But if you wanted to add even another nail, less than 30 seconds in, Nathan McKinnon just says, “Dope.” The Edmonton Oilers might genuinely be the worst team in the NHL along the boards. I don’t know what to tell you. Taves is just going to chip this thing off the boards and it is not only going to get out of the zone, but as Leki knocks it through, it gets up into the neutral zone to where only Nathan McKinnon collects it and the Oilers have given up a clean twoon one. Nathan McKinnon opts to shoot and just rips it shortside. And the beatings will continue until morale improves as 5 minutes later, Nathan McKinnon does it again. I actually think this is the funniest goal of the game and I’ll show you why. Edmonton’s power play is expiring here. Another good kill from the ABs. A rimmed puck comes to Nathan McKinnon just getting out of the box and Nathan McKinnon took his sweet time to collect this one to go one-on-one and beat a goalie again. The reason it’s funny though, and I’ll show you on the replay, is Nathan McKinnon is not even really ready to get out of the penalty box. He’s chilling, sitting on the bench. He’s not upstanding like we see some guys do when they’re ready to get out. The door opens, he goes, “Oh, right. I play hockey.” He catches this puck and then just goes on to score because he’s Nathan McKinnon. I guess he doesn’t even care. Mack looking like the most reluctant goalcorer of all time. Stepping out of the box. Didn’t even want to charge the zone by himself. Does. And then the puck just goes in. Dude literally does not react that he just scored his 12th goal of the season, tying him for the league lead. That’s how much of a blowout this game was. And why not add another goal from your thirdish line here. One more for the road, I guess. Edmonton clears a puck, but Jackan just puts it back in. And your bottom six goes to work again. Edmonton being lazy. They know the game’s over. Here comes Parker Kelly takes the puck. Thank you very much. Ross Colton, beautiful vision to find Jack Jury coming down the middle and uh Edmonton is done. Yeah, it’s a meaningless garbage time goal in a game that ends 9-1. Sure, but I think there is something to note there. The ABS in a game that was clearly over still get that hard work ethic from their third line or Colton was out there too. Whatever you want to call this line, middle six, bottom six. Sure. They’re still out there working hard because that’s the expectation. The ABS depth only knows how to play one way. Regardless of the score, regardless of the situation, you’re going to get that consistency out of them. Now, the puck isn’t always going to go in for them like it did today, but you know, you can get reliable good hockey. Every single goal was fun. Every single goal had quality play, even if the ABS did get rewarded by some bad goalending and defense at times, too. And regardless of the ridiculous score, this was the perfect setup for the ABS. The first game of a back-to-back where they absolutely got to coast through, if we’re being honest, the entire second half of the game was pretty much a free roll from them. Everyone in the top six except for Val Nachushkin got to play under their season average TOI. The defensive minutes were very well spread out, and some of your bottom six guys that were playing well got rewarded with some extra ice time. All of that keeps you a tick fresher and a tick more engaged for the second half of this back-to-back tomorrow or today when you’re watching this. All three of the A’s fourthline players had a multi-point night, including a three-point night for Parker Kelly. Devont Taves picks up three assists, the multi-goal game for Kale. Nathan McKinnon had four points in this game. And you had multiple other players with multi-point nights and other players that at least chipped in an assist here or there. Yeah, there are a couple of guys without points, too, but it just doesn’t matter when you score nine. Steuart Skinner ended the game with a say percentage that starts with a six and Calvin Pickard one with starts with a seven and you’re not going to see that very often. NHL goalenders are almost always better than that. But don’t apologize for facing goalies that had a bad night. The ABS face plenty of goalies who have great nights. This one went the ABS way and they capitalized on it. Great game, fun all the way around. The ABS are absolutely the best team in the NHL right now. There’s just not a ton to say here other than the AS are great. That is the end of this game video review. Thank you for watching. I am Rudo. And you almost could have had 10 though, right? The landing goal if it counted.

The Avs put up a nine spot on the Oilers, getting scoring from everywhere. Drury, Kelly, MacKinnon, and Makar all had multi-goal nights, and Brindley also scored one. Even the players who didn’t net a goal for Colorado produced points, or at least looked good, making all the Avs good.

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