Nathan Mackinnon shines as Avalanche close out New York Rangers for seven in a row

Nathan Mackinnon shines as Avalanche close out New York Rangers for seven in a row

Bing bong. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Welcome in BMBBR Avalanche postgame show live from the Toyota Winners Lounge powered by your front range Toyota dealer system presented by Bet 365 ABS defeat the New York Rangers Six to three. J Mike and Rudo coming to you to break it all down. A game that I think at times was setting up to be an extremely frustrating one ends up being actually a pretty I’m not going to say dominant. It was close towards the end, but the underlyings were dominant. Yeah, I mean a a sluggish first period. Kind of got it going. Felt like the the Rangers did a good job of maybe dictating the pace things. Obviously they get a early goal kind of a cheapo there and and then I mean we’ll we’ll get into all that their their approach in the second period and and whatnot and how the ABS were able to respond but yep another night where you probably didn’t have your a game and you look up at the end of the the game and it’s a threegoal win seven in a row. AJ had some crazy stat that he tweeted out here. Let me pull it up here. The ABS just became the fourth team in NHL history to lose just one game in regulation through 20 games. Uh the ABS have outscored opponents 32 to9 in third periods. When it gets to win time, this team gets to winning. The ABS know what to do. They take care of business in a way. I do want to get into that. I want to get into a lot of the numbers. I think there’ll even be some negatives to take away from tonight. But overall, how can you not be in love with a team that has won seven straight? Let’s hit the 60cond rundown before we really break it all down. ABS do give up the first goal early. Uh a power play goal for the Rangers. Penalty kill maybe one of the spots you’re looking at and not loving tonight for Colorado. Most of the first was a slog. Not particularly fun hockey. A lot of Rangers styled play. That’s what happens when you give a team a lead. But the ABS do pull it back in the last minute of the first. Fortunate bounce ends up on Nathan McKinnon stick. It’s 1-1. Second period. I do think the ABS started to improve their play, but another early goal goes the Rangers way off of a nice redirect in front. Some bad backing from the ABS on that one. That goal also gets back late. Kale Mar with a wraparound goal. You never see those, but you know what? Sometimes that’s what you need. It’s 2-2 after two and the ABS truly do take over this game in the third period. They dominate the period. A power play goal finally breaks through for Brock Nelson. They give it right back on a power play to the Rangers a bit later to make it 3-3. But response after response after response from Colorado McKinnon scores to make it 4-3 after off of a Macar post hit and then a couple of empty neters seal the deal for the ABS as they win a little over. Just a little over today. Not too bad. Yeah, I really feel like that that McKinnon goal was kind of the the straw that broke the camel’s back, if you will. Absolutely. The Rangers certainly didn’t go away without some fight, but I I just loved that every time the ABS needed a response from their top guys in this one, you got it. I mean, you you didn’t play an ideal first period, but McKinnon gets a fortunate one. Yep. It’s another grind it out. Things opened up in the second for sure, but then you get the Kale Mar wrapound. Every time you needed a response and a key spot from one of those top guys, you got it tonight. And there are a couple of things there that I think really stand out to me for the Avalanche as a team. When you look at tonight’s game, and I think some of the frustration, you know, warranted, some sloppy play in the first, I would say the first half of the game, you can be pretty frustrated with the way the ABS played because of lack of execution, because of maybe not recognizing the style of play that was getting imposed upon them and not playing around it effectively. And if you look at last year’s team, if you look at some of the teams over the last couple of years in Colorado, this is the exact type of game where they’re stubborn about the way they’re going to play. They don’t figure it out and they end up losing the game despite maybe playing more efficiently because they try to force things and they aren’t willing to make the adjustments that they need to make inside of the game. And tonight they absolutely made those adjustments. Yes, it helps that Nelson comes up with a big power play goal, but at about the halfway mark of this game, you watch the ABS shift their mindset. All of a sudden, all of the oh, we’re trying to make the perfect no look crazy pass started to fall away. Your game tying goal in the second period is a wraparound. One of the simplest plays you can make in hockey. Don’t overthink it. Get to where you need to. The ABS knew they were the better team skill-wise than the New York Rangers tonight. It doesn’t always have to be the skill that gets you where you need to go. Sometimes you just have to work teams into the ground. And the ABS took care of that business tonight. And I think it goes a long way to me to say, hey, the ABS took a game that should have been frustrating in which they dominated and found a way to win it by moving away from the way they wanted to play and into the way they needed to play. Yeah, I think there was both a display of of some malleability and and then also resilience, right? You you don’t let things compound. Yep. You do give up really three cheap goals. Like I don’t think there was a whole lot more wedge on the first one if he secures the puck on and you don’t give up the rebound but the goal itself nothing you could do. Yeah. Not a whole lot you can do. Same thing, you know, just really in a tough spot on on all three of those. No, no blame. Yeah, sure. Maybe the first one, funnily enough, he actually gets an assist on the game-winning goal. I know. So, Wedgewood AB’s best power play player perhaps. Some are saying, but yeah, the Wedgewood hard to be mad at on anything with his game tonight. We’ll talk about him a little bit later. Yeah, I didn’t I didn’t mean to derail you there, but I’m I’m I’m with you. I feel like early on, you know, on the watch long, we’re we’re talking a lot, especially like the breakouts were a struggle. The Rangers were doing a good job of of kind of dictating things in the the neutral zone, especially. I feel like the puck possession wasn’t great. The passing wasn’t super crisp at times. Maybe trying to get too cutesy. Yep. And then on both of those first two goals, you just you get them by by outworking them. Yep. I It wasn’t the prettiest instance. It wasn’t like highlight hockey. I mean, the wrap round was pretty cool, but it was cool, but again, maybe the lowest percentage playing hockey. And it’s not that, oh, it’s low percentage and you shouldn’t do it. It’s that hey, sometimes you have to look to those plays to get pucks to the net, to get to the right areas of the ice because the way you were trying to do it is not working. Nathan McKinn’s first goal is a fortunate bounce. Absolutely. But you get a fortunate bounce because you threw pucks to the net. If you put pucks to the dangerous areas, good things will happen eventually. And in a frustrating game like this, the AS have the possession. They have the ability to get over those humps of we’ll keep throwing it towards the net. We’ll keep possessing the puck. We’ll keep working. you’ll get there eventually as long as you keep it up. And the ABS did. I And even like the power play goal, the execution from on the power play, at least like how it looked on the first couple was far crisper than the one they actually scored. Probably their worst power play of the night is the one they actually put a goal on. Well, the one after it wasn’t much better. I don’t really count that one cuz there’s four minutes left and you’re like, we’re just trying to kill two minutes of this hockey game. So, but similar vein like you just you get one by being aggressive instead of trying to get too cutesy. Yeah, 100%. All all three of the ABS goals with a goalie net are certainly not getting too cute with the puck. I think it’s very very straightforward to see that the ABS understood what works and yeah, you get fortunate sometimes you get good bounces. Yeah, it’s a great execution by Brock Nelson. a great shot on the power play that gets you there. But to execute on a great shot, you do have to in fact decide to shoot the puck. And I I I struggle with this sometimes with the ABS because it seems when the ABS get into these games, the players that lead the ABS into recognizing, all right, it’s time to stop being cute and start shooting more is the defense. And the ABS end up in this weird middle ground situation where their forwards are still trying to make the perfect play. and your defenders like a macar like a Burns especially tonight just letting it rip. Yeah. It was like we got to shoot guys. Someone’s got to put it on. If you guys aren’t going to do it, we’re going to do it. And to me that is a bit frustrating and I would say fair to be frustrated through two periods again probably more like half the game. The end of the second the ABS really started to pick it up. But the message got sent. I’m you know I’m not in the locker room. I don’t know what they say at intermissions, but you could you could tell there was a shift, especially in the third period where the ABS said, “What if we come out here and just shoot everything? What if we just start peppering Shurken until the damn breaks and the damn took a power play to break, but it did eventually break?” It put the ABS in the driver’s seat and the New York Rangers just are not a team designed to play from behind. And I mean, the ABS were were due. We said it on the the watch along, but this was the right outcome. While while there are some things we can we can complain about early on, the ABS were certainly the superior team in five on five. And I mean, watching the watching the Rangers when the game is two to two and they’re basically trying to park the bus with like 25 minutes left in the game. That’s not an approach that deserves success. Doesn’t lead to success. No, it is not. And it worked. Again, I we’re an ABS podcast. We focus on the ABS side of things. The first half of this game, give the Rangers a ton of credit. They were disrupting the ABS massively. Time completely controlled the pace. Yep. They were playing the game they wanted to play. Thankfully, the ABS sorted it, overcame it, and ultimately got the job done. And again, I I I know it was close with five minutes left in this game, but this was really pretty darn dominant from the ABS. can throw a couple of numbers to you here as soon as I find the actual abs game. Shout out Natural Stat Trick, by the way. People ask me all the time. Natural Strat Trick, the easiest advanced stat site to go to. It’s free, available to everyone. Highly recommend if you’re getting into advanced stat to use it. Yeah. Five on five through 46 minutes of time. ABS outshot attempted the Rangers 60 to30. Doubled them up. Actual scoring chances 24 to 12. Doubled them up. Uh that’s shots, sorry. Uh scoring chances is even better. 35-11 at five on five and then high dangers ended up being 13 to7. This game should have been dominant for the ABS from start to finish based on the underlying numbers. Shurken’s a really good goalie. They kept him in it on multiple different plays. A little bit fortunate with some post hit from the ABS. You can come away with frustrations. I was certainly frustrated at points in this game, but at the end of it, this is the ABS are a wagon territory. Like, they’re just better than the teams they face on nights like tonight. And they weren’t going to be denied. When you outcore the opposition 32 to9 in the third period over a 20 game sample size, that’s not a fluke. At some point, that’s a representation of the type of team that you are. And I said it earlier, but when it gets to winning time, when the game is on the line, the ABS have another level that they can turn on. And there are times where it feels like they’re a little sleepy for longer stretches of a game than than you would want them to be. And that’s certainly something that could come back to cost you in in a game or two. You you you hope to not see that be too prevalent of a a theme this season. But yeah, it it’s not like it was a disastrous thing. I mean, you give up a couple of dumb goals, but then I mean really for the at least the second 50% of the game if if not more like the second 65ish% of the game. Yeah, something like that. The ABS were just better. They were just better. Like there is no and it wasn’t even like and part of part of it too is I can understand how the Rangers have lost so many home games now watching their offensive approach. I don’t know how they keep winning so many road games. 10 shots through 40 minutes. That’s what I mean. Like if they aren’t hyper efficient on their scoring chances, they’re not even competitive in games. And there were times where they were hyper efficient tonight. But until they weren’t, that does not last. It It is not sustainable to put in three goals on 10 shots. That’s not a thing that you can look at and go, “Our process was good tonight, boys. We did the things we wanted to.” Especially when you’re no longer, you know, once the ABS were able to adjust. They’re not able to dictate the pace and tempo the same way. Now you’re just putting a good goalie in a in a really tough spot. You’re saying, “Eiggor, please save us.” Everything goalie this game. Not enough. An Eigore we trust. I guess I I thought Wedgwood was better. Yeah. I You know, Wedgewood, it’s one of those weird games where Wedgewood doesn’t have a lot of work to do. Uh the goals against nothing he can do on No, but three or four really loud saves. Third period especially he he said, “All right, let’s take care of business, boys.” Made a couple of really big saves that didn’t let this game get into a wild and weird situation that that could have ultimately led to the ABS losing. And it’s it’s great to have your trust in in your goalie in that way because the ABS have that right now with Wedgie. It allows them to play free. It allows them to go offense offense offense. It allows your defense to activate in a way that only the ABS can, which came up big for them again tonight. It it really feels like the ABS aren’t playing perfect games, but they’re getting enough out of every portion of their lineup, whether it be top six, bottom six, defense, goalender, that get enough from everybody to win. I don’t know how sustainable it is in the long run. We talked about that a little bit on the pregame show. A guy who has been a lifelong backup, you know, a decade long sample size of this, but he’s been a gamer this year. Like when when there have been an ugly one or two, he locks in. We haven’t really seen him have one of those nights where it just compounds and one softy turns into, you know, a six goal game. The Carolina game is probably the closest that he got in. But yeah, he’s been consistent enough for the ABS. And I mean, one not so hot showing in a quarter of a season when you weren’t supposed to be the number one guy coming in. I think we would have all taken that. And and like it’s an interesting conversation with Bedar’s decision-making there too because again remember head coaches in the NHL think about tomorrow. Can I win the next game? And Bednar consistently has gone with Wedgwood to win the next game which I think is probably the right decision in that mindset. I do think at a certain point you need to start getting Blackwood in and thinking about what does this team look like in January, February, March. But if you’re just trying to win in the moment, Jared Bedner has stuck with his guy and believes that it’s the best option for the ABS. And clearly, they’ve won seven in a row. So, who am I to judge? It’s worked. The future, it’s bright. It’s bright right now in Avalanche country. It’s so bright. 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And some of this is New York’s offense is bad and stupid. Sure. Uh but to stay locked in in the way Wedgewood did in this game to get those saves in the third period we mentioned that the ABS needed the mental battle is insane. Wedgewood is got the the power mentally to be a Colorado Avalanche goalender. Whether he’s the number one, the number two, you know, I don’t I don’t really care about that. I don’t think the ABS are even labeling him like that at this point. But he’s a guy that has earned the trust like we talked about in a way that I think the last guy that had really earned this trust from the Avalanche is Pavl Francos. He stood tall in some really big moments this year. Yep. And just time after time seems to to come up with that big save when you really need it most. And and to get that again out of a guy who’s been a a career backup, it’s just been it’s been awesome. And obviously again like we’ll we’ll see how long it’s sustainable and all that. I mean I could add that little prerequisite every single time. But he’s going to play more bad games. It’s going to happen eventually. He is in fact a human being, right? But while it’s good be nice if we could get a little bit of help from the special teams play. It would be nice. I’m sure we’ll talk about that. I mean we can we can talk about that now. I that was probably the worst element of their game tonight both ways. There are two real negatives that I have in this game. Kevin Brinley got hurt. Uh, sounds like lower body injury, they’re saying in the chat, which like you go watch the hit and you’re like, I don’t understand how that possibly is a lower body injury, but apparently it is. Uh, hopefully he’s reasonably okay. Maybe like a muscle strain while you’re like trying to pull up going a little bit. I don’t know. Like knee trying to get out of bed. You’re not even that old yet. I’m old in spirit. You are. You have an old man spirit. I I would agree with that. But obviously more injuries bad for the Avalanche. You kind of saw the ABS are now going to have to manage like, hey, Victor Olivesson might have to play up in your second line or depth is definitely going to get tested now, which has been a big strength. And like thankfully LOC is not that far off. So maybe a guy goes out, a guy comes in, but definitely a frustrating portion of the season to see Nushkin on your second line get hurt. Brinley fills that role. you feel like better than you possibly could have expected and now he gets hurt and now you’re like all right you can deal with a couple of injuries but multiple top six guys start getting hurt and and that’s hard for any team regardless of how deep you are. Well, now you’ve start tinkering with the chemistry of your third line, which has obviously really gelled well together, and it just it it it’s a test of of your team’s ability to adjust on the fly and and you know, they’ve showed a lot of in-game resilience, which has been really encouraging, but these are the things that you have to battle over the course of the 82 game season. And you know, we’re talking about just trying to go one game at a time, and to an extent, you’re going to have to have some of that this weekend with the the backto back, but can you continue to grind out games now that you’re not at 100%. And I think obviously the star power of this team makes you feel pretty good about, you know, the the potential of sustaining this, but it is going to test them and and we’ll see how they deal with that. And and you know, what does what does this mean for a guy like Landiskog? you know, a million little questions that now come into the come to the the uh equation here. You you start putting that extra mileage in some of your top guys and they’re pros. They’ll be fine, but you would rather not had you the opportunity to to spread that out a little bit more and you know, we don’t we could wake up tomorrow and Gavin Brinley could be totally fine. I don’t know what his injury is. A bit knee bruised and he just, you know, they didn’t want to push it, right? So, we’ll wait and actually see to really dive into what it means for the Avalanche. But last time we said that it was the Jewish then he was week to week, which is I think what the Avalanche world has just come to expect when things go for the Avalanche injuries. But it was a very similar instance where I was like it didn’t look any like that night. We didn’t even see really what happened, but it was hard to say, but it is what it is. For what it’s worth, Nushkin and Kibby Ronto are skating on their own and no contact jerseys, but it’s not like the ABS have multiple long-term injuries piling up on them in in the way that it has happened in previous years sometimes. The other negative though, yeah, special teams, I can live with the power play. You went one for five. That’s not awesome. You would have really liked it to be two for five, but it was enough. Despite that, you still lost the special teams battle. And I’m not going to sit here and blow up the ABS penalty kill. It’s been really, really good for most of the year. It was really bad tonight. Uh the first goal is, yeah, you know, Wedgewood makes that weird play with the puck where you turn it over and that’s kind of bad on his end, but the ABS PK just completely loses the plot after that. All four players staring at the puck, just kind of cruising out there, no coverage, net front, it’s in the back of your net. Second power play goal less bad, but still the the play ends up with a nice tip in because you’re just not defending the guy one inch from your goalie. Like I I understand you have to leave something open on the penalty kill, but you get scored on essentially the same style of play twice in a row. It for all the adapting the ABS did in this game, their penalty kill did not adapt. Really sloppy close out on or not sloppy necessarily, just kind of lax aidasical. Yeah, it the second one and Taves and Mar. I think Macar was AB’s best player in this game, which we’ll get to in a second. But just weird defensive. I don’t know what is that miscommunication or just I don’t think so. I you know, unfortunately, at least on the second one, I think the ABS just that’s how they penalty kill. They’ve long said, “We’re going to rely on our goalie to make the save. If your guy net front makes a play, he makes a play and we give up a goal. We’re going to try and stop pucks from getting there in the first place, whether it’s by blocking a shot or getting in the passing lanes. If the puck is there, well, then we’ve probably failed somewhere else and that guy scores. See, you understand the logic in it. Yeah, it it just when it doesn’t work, it often looks really, really bad. Fair enough. And the first one is the one that I have much more problem with there. Yeah, especially that early in the game. Yeah, it’s early in the game. It’s not a nice tip play. That’s just a dude completely uncovered on the back door. That’s one where it’s like, okay, someone missed their assignment in in getting into a passing lane. And I do think there was some miscommunication cuz Taves is sort of in the passing lane, but doesn’t even really wave at it with his stick. He very clearly is playing in a way where he thinks Macar has that guy covered and Macar is not there. Really just the the one blemish on a pretty much otherwise. I mean, I guess he could have cap scored on both of those those shots that hit the post, but god, he was good tonight. He was great. And it’s funny because you can look at tonight as well, the ABS power play percentage actually got better. He did something right on special teams and then your PK gives up two on two and you’re like, ah, now the ABS lost a special teams battle tonight and it it sucks again. Um, so it is at a certain point the ABS do need to figure out their special teams in a way that allows them to actually win the special teams battle in games consistently. It’s like what we said, it’s not a thing until it is. Right now you’re you’re still winning. Yep. So, it’s just a talking point that we ramble about for 10 minutes of podcast and hope that it’ll change, right? But it’s very easy to see tonight how that could have cost you. Oh, easily. uh instead you get great performances from your three stars and you’re able to overcome some of the shortcomings of your game tonight. Starting off with star number three where I put Nathan McKinnon and you might feel like this is harsh and maybe it is. A three-point night for McKinnon is great. I don’t think he was bad by any stretch. Thought he was really good tonight. But when you actually dig into the goals, two of them are kind of guy in the right spot moments. Uh the deflection on the first goal comes right to him and he puts it in. Great finish. The second one, Macar hits a post and he happens to come right to him. Another very good finish, but this was not the version of Nathan McKinnon where you were like, “Oh my god, he’s so good. He’s not going to be denied.” It was just the guy you needed in the right spots tonight, which deserves credit. A version of Nathan McKinnon that’s getting to the netfront areas is one that does a lot for the ABS. I feel like he has more games like this than any like he’s so good that it’s just one of those that even when he’s not money he finds a way to produce but Yep. Yeah. I mean it’s the quietest way I think you could have a three-point night. Yeah. Very much so. Especially for Nathan McKinnon. You’re like, “Oh, he had three points tonight.” And I know he scored two goals, but if Nathan McKinnon has a three-point night, you’re used to the like he did something ridiculous. all over the place and dictating, you know, possession and and he kind of just took care of business tonight in the way that he needed to. Marty Nius also had three assists tonight, by the way. This ABS first line was quietly quite good. Uh, but I put him in third star because in the second star spot, I wanted to talk about Brock Nelson, who I think you could make an argument doesn’t deserve the second star spot tonight, but that’s why I wanted to talk about him. This is a guy who made mistakes tonight. You look at the second goal for the Rangers, he’s almost directly at fault for a brutal bad back check. He gives up halfway through it and gets a front row seat to the guy he’s supposed to be covering, scoring a goal. And you look at that and go, “That’s not great.” He then follows that up a couple shifts later where he probably has the biggest hit of his career on Gabe Landiskog, his own teammate. And so, you’re in a tough spot with a guy. You don’t love how he’s played. The ASBs are in a bit of a dog fight of a game and he’s the one who steps up and scores what ends up being not the game-winning goal, but the big power play goal that gets the ABS a lead in the third period. And then I know it’s an empty net point, but great work again from him in a situation to the coach has to put trust in you to put you out there with an empty net situation and he works hard, gets the puck where it needs to go and ultimately gets Ross Colton the goal. We’ve now seen the version of Brock Nelson where yeah, the dude had three points in his first 10 games. It was not good enough. And while some of these points are coming cheap, he’s also adding some big goals. He had a game-winning goal not too long ago. He obviously gets the big goal tonight. And we’re now talking about a guy who’s a basically a point per game in this win streak for the Colorado Avalanche. It’s the version of Brock Nelson the ABS need. I feel like we wanted more assertiveness from him at at certain points early on in the year. Yep. he’s doing that and and there were a couple of of instances in that third period I felt like he did a good job of jumping up into the play and I mean very easily could have had another goal in this one. Yeah, it it’s and this is when we’re talking about I think especially middle six players, they’re not top six guys. The expectation isn’t that they’re great every single night, but the expectation is hey when they do make mistakes they find ways to claw it back. They find ways to get themselves even or better in a hockey game. And that’s what Brock Nelson did in this one even after he made some mistakes. And then I what is there to even say about Kale Mar as as the first star? Was not perfect on the penalty kill. Again, not a perfect player, but shift in, shift out. You watched this guy just light the New York Rangers on fire. The wraparound goal probably should have had a hat-tick instead of McKinnon having two goals because that was the second post of the night that he hits. He hits the empty netter for two, picks up another assist to make it three. I don’t want to pat myself on the back, but we did kind of call this in the pregame. You dude, you’re on fire. You’re on fire. If you’re not tuning into the pregame show, you’re missing out on at least for my bets. Yeah. 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Yeah, I mean they got the right mindset, mentality that it’s not going to be easy and that we’re going to have to work for our results and I think it’s a fair description of our team to this point in the season. Jesse, coach, I believe it’s fourth team in NHL history to hit the 20 game mark with just one regulation loss. I think that’s right. Uh, you know, you you talked about the consistency of this group last game, but just what can you say about maybe it’s that resilience, but the way that you guys can find your game, uh, you know, whether it be good start and you get away from it or or just whatever. You guys seem to be able to get to your game every night right now. I think that’s um leadership. It’s what it is. It’s it’s it’s the focus of the whole entire group, but if we get off track or things aren’t going the way we want them to go, um the leadership group has done a nice job of like getting guys back on track and focused on the right things. You know, like the message on the bench is not just coming from the coaches, it’s coming from the players and what needs to be done and, you know, what we can do better in certain areas. And on top of that, I like the way they’re delivering that message, too. You know, it’s it’s not just yelling and screaming. It’s delivered the right way and guys are taking accountability if they’re making mistakes and moving on to the next play. Colleen, then Ryan, do we have an update on Gavin Burnley? Lower body. We’ll see how he presents tomorrow. Yeah, he was sore. You know, he got hit behind the net, got dinged up. um wasn’t able to come back out. So, not great news, but we’ll see what tomorrow brings and I should know more. Ryan then, you’ve spoken a lot about Gabe Lisgard leadership and when you know he he came back onto the team that his his positive influence has really helped out this group when he wasn’t around. What was the difference? Was there more yelling and screaming or disagreements? What is Well, he certainly has like a calming effect on the room, right? like I he’s a very wellrespected guy for you know obvious reasons and so I think like if things start everyone has their own leadership style right but Landy seems to compliment all the other leaders that we have in the room or they complement his leadership style so um he’s the first one to sort of recognize things that and he’s the when he’s saying stuff everyone listens and his delivery is perfect, right? Like he’s going to deliver the message the right way and um so other guys can kind of sit back, relax a little bit more, and keep going about their business and but still leading and just with your captain in the room, it’s it’s a more calming influence than we have without him. Eric, then Kyle, you said a few games ago that Brock Nelson’s just been a little sneak. He finishes the home state with three goals and three assists. Is it just they’re finally going in or is there something more related to? Well, I think he’s skating better with the puck right now. Um there were stretches like a couple of things that we showed him is like he does the right thing defensively. He skates, he checks hard, he gets the puck back, he goes on the attack, and there was times where we I felt like he’s such a strong skater that he needed to use his skating more both on entries into the offensive zone through the neutral zone and and then also in ozone play. Um, what I did like about his game is he was getting to the interior of the ice. He was still getting lots of shots from in there. High percentage of his shots are coming from in there and then he’s also around the net, middleman like for screens, tips, deflections, rebounds, that kind of thing. And he was picking up a fair number of those chances as well as well. So, there was some things that were real positive. There’s some things I think he needed to improve on. And I think he’s improved on the skating part of his game here on the home stand. He continues to shoot the puck and now they’re just going in for him. Kyle, then Megan, with Kale as a veteran now, I mean, any details to his game that you’re seeing this year that have resulted in this start and the point production we’re seeing? Kale. Yeah. Like I I think it’s just another level of consistency for him, you know, like I obviously has the ability to be a difference maker, game changer every night. I think um you know most nights he’s getting to his game on the offensive side of things and so I think it like for me it’s just incremental you know steps forward and most of it to me is probably just consistency. He has the ability to do it every night and this this year he seems like he is Megan back to Aaron. I think early in this game and throughout the night truthfully uh New York managed their lanes really well. made it difficult maybe to get as much on it as you’d like that the shots battle still so tilted heavily in favor of Colorado. Have you noticed that the team is not getting frustrated in those moments in terms of how they’re looking to create offensively? Yes. I think again it just kind of goes back to the focus and preparation like we’re preparing for the worst when we play these teams or like they’re all good teams we’ve been playing. Rangers have been an excellent road team. They seem to really have sort of found their stride here recently in their game. They played quicker tonight than some of the video I saw, but I thought they competed hard. They had a really good game, really good game plan. They were disciplined. Um, but we still feel like, you know, through the first period, we had a good first period. I think it was really tight checking and then the second we got a little bit more competitive in ozone play and started shooting the puck a little bit more, not looking for something fancy. And that rewarded us, I thought. And when our team kind of finds that balance of playing with the puck and making skilled plays and then also shooting and going to the dirty areas, it seems to snowball for our team. Um, so when things aren’t going well, we can kind of put the queue away a little bit and and make it a more workmanlike mentality, a little bit more meat and potatoes offensively, and that seems to jumpst start our offense, and then we can start making some other plays as well. And so when we find that balance and and our team recognizes it, it leads to good things. So yeah, no need to get frustrated when there’s still more than half a game to play. That’s kind of our message. Last two, Erith and DMC. 20 games in. This is the first time Gabe Landisk plays over I think 16 minutes and he gets almost 19. Like obviously there was a guy that went down with injury, but this is obviously not the first time you’ve had that kind of game. Like has there been external factors outside of you just deciding when to play him? Are there like things that you guys are having to do to to to limit his ice time or is it just the feeling of what he’s going to play him? Yeah, it’s just me deciding, you know, he he wouldn’t like he wouldn’t be in the lineup if I didn’t feel like he could be playing a lot. Um it’s like tonight like I felt like that was one of Land’s best games. He was skating, hanging on to the puck. He looked like he had an extra little extra pep in his step. We’ve seen it before. Um, some of those games were after two days off. Um, here’s another one, right? We had we had a day off. For him it was two, then a practice day. And so that’s a good sign because I think eventually it’ll it’ll look like that all the time after one day off. Um, but the the little a bit of extra rest is sure certainly giving him a little bit more um jump in his stride and he’s played good in those games. So when I recognize he’s playing good, I’m going to play him more regardless of injury or not. Go ahead. Anything special traditional wise when a goal gets an assist, gets a point, doing anything for him? No. No big deal. Betting are pretty blunt on that one. Nothing special for the wedgie power play point. We do have Bailey Curtis, the courtesy call live from Ball Arena coming in with us here. Bailey, thank you for joining us. Seven straight for the ABS. Fun times. Oh, is she not there? All right, we broke it. There we go. Bailey, thank you for joining us. All good vibes, I’d say. So, I mean, seven wins in a row is certainly nothing to sherk away from. Definitely not. This one at times maybe felt a little bit harder earned. ABS credit for the underlying dominance or do you think they could have done more tonight? I definitely think there’s more in the tank and that’s kind of the feeling around the room too. Camel car harped on it a lot and saying yeah the resilience is great. They’ve won seven games. I mean obviously something’s working for them but I think it’s at least for me is very reassuring knowing that he feels like he has something left in the tank as does he feel the same way for everybody else on the team too. So that that’s really really promising for a team that is by all means dominating on the ice uh in in most cases. But resilience is kind of the the term for me today. There there was absolutely more that they could have done especially I thought in periods one and two. But ultimately I I mean they they push they grind uh next men mentality with friendly going down. I I think it’s a testament to them ultimately coming out on top with the way they pushed. Brinley going down obviously shakes some things up in in your in your top six there. Um especially on the uh the second power play, you know, that’s what I was trying to say. Goodness gracious. Um but obviously not having to choose. Can you feel that on the PK? Special teams as a whole kind of rough tonight. What are your thoughts on on the special teams? It it by all means was not their best performance this season. It’s I I feel like I don’t have a whole lot more that we haven’t already harped on a lot over this season. Um it definitely does hurt. Brendan, are you worried about the PK though, especially without Nachushkin? It’s obviously been really good this year as a whole, but yeah, I mean a little bit. He he’s been a steady presence on it. But if it comes down to them, you know, wanting it, that resilience that we talk about, the next man up mentality we talk about, they’ve got some other really good players that can fill in that shoe, fill in those shoes or skates, I guess. And it’s just a matter of finding that. Um, especially with Brinley, that that helps. And I I will mention based on how Bednar phrased it obviously just listening back to the presser like it it doesn’t sound super serious. So it I think you’re getting a really good penalty kill out of you know an addition with Brenley that’s going to turn into an even better penalty kill that we’ve already seen with a guy like Valeri Nichushkin. I’m not too wholeheartedly worried about it. I I think if it starts if it continues to maybe look bad heading into the weekend, maybe I get a little squirrely about it, but it’s one game where you miss another second line guy and have to kind of jumble lines. Anyway, I I’m not super worried about it right now. You step off of the Brinley side and you look at the rest of that second line. Uh a little bit of a roller coaster of a game for Brock Nelson tonight. Some good, some bad. Maybe don’t body check your captain at the blue line if you can help it. But he ends up with a two-point night. Scores a huge goal for the AS. Are we finally starting to see that production from Nelson? That was the expectation. It’s been so nice to finally see that come to fruition on the score sheet. this is the guy. Especially you and I have talked about consistently saying like I mean we we pay him this much to be our second line guy and he’s like I mean the process is great but the score sheet is really what’s lacking and at the end of the day that’s really what matters most. Finally seeing him start to get on the score sheet on a nightly basis I think is huge for Brock Nelson who you’ve got the confirmation that you know you’re doing the right things. you’re getting into the right areas, but confidence can do a lot for a player. And finally being able to see that produce in the way that has been expected is just another tier of, you know, what Brock Nelson is capable of. If we can sit there and say he’s looked great through the season so far, but he’s only got this many points and now now look what he’s doing. Like I I I think that’s huge and especially a testament I I want to give my flowers to a guy like Ross Colton who is an incredible compliment to him tonight. I love the confidence call out too because look at the goal he scores in this game. A guy who wanted to shoot the puck more shoots it in space. Beats Igor Schust Sturken clean. Who Shisturkin is the only reason this game was competitive and Brock Nelson just dunked on him and and maybe a couple posts too. Yeah, the post did help out Chesty. Fair enough. Yeah. No, that’s last one. Uh, we need the tiebreaker. Bailey, I chose Kale Mar as the number one star. Ball arena chose Nathan McKinnon. Who was right? I feel like I have to go with Nate here. I I mean, just doing me dirty. I you know if Kale Mar some of Kale Mar’s opportunities that’s why I point out the post because I think it like there’s a couple opportunities Kale Mar if he had scored on those would absolutely be be the shining star. Um he he improves that accuracy a little bit gets a little more lucky on some of those shots and you’ve absolutely got my vote. But as as of right now, I I mean, Nathan McKinnon’s performing on an incredibly like unreal tier right now for me to not give that to him. Yep. 16 goals in 20 games is pretty good. It turns out, yeah, tough critic, Bailey. Didn’t get a hattick. He’s a bum. It’s the tried andrue answer. I I mean, Nathan McKinnon’s an easy answer to go with, but again, it’s being able to see what he does and and how he performs night in and night out. I mean, Landiskog said it best. We should be lucky to be able to see this every night. No kidding. We’ll leave it at that. Bailey, thank you for calling in. Another fun one. ABS have seven in a row and they get to go try and make it eight on Saturday. So, we’ll see you for that one. Uh yeah, let’s let’s move on. Chat, I didn’t even have to ask. You guys got us to 100 likes. Thank you very much. We appreciate that. Dr. Dubs in the chat to our supporters club members. We appreciate y’all. Let’s take the medicine. Tastes like victory. It’s hard. Look, we nitpick the abs because I talk about the abs for an hour a day, five days a week, sometimes more with postgame and pregame and all that. So, you have to look at it from every angle. But at the end of the day, if you look at the last 10 games for the Colorado Avalanche, they are 90 and1. They have dropped a single point in the month of November. That’s asinine. You throw the phrase around, you genuinely can’t do much better than that. Like, what more could you possibly ask of this team right now? I I tweeted at the end of the game that the avalanche are an inevitable force right now. Feels like it. There’s just again I don’t really know other how other to phrase it other than inevitability, but there’s there’s a relentlessness with this team where you just know even if it looks a little bit sluggish, it’ll come. Yep. Exactly. It’s coming. it. And when they turn it on, they flip games in like five minutes. Yeah, it it I think that’s a great point with how quickly it turns with this team is you watch a New York team really try to impose their will on the game and and for stretches they do it, but the second the egg breaks, the ABS aren’t just, oh, well, we scored our goal. All right, we’re fine. We can back off. It’s, hey, we we put a goal in to get a lead on the power play. Oh, you you have an answer back. we score 30 seconds later. We’re not doing this. And they’ve done that a lot this year. They have. They’ve been great at responding. And and sometimes it’s a longer response where you survive most of a first period and get a late goal. Sometimes it’s the response is a big save, not necessarily a goal. But it really has felt like in pretty much every game this year, even in some of their losses, if they get punched in the mouth, the response isn’t a reeling Colorado Avalanche team. It’s a there’s a left hook coming right back at you. Yeah. I just I think it’s really hard to get this team out of their game or or out of their mentality, if you will. I mean, I think at times, like we saw from New York over the for 20 something minutes, you know, other teams might dictate the the tempo or the style of play for for a while until the ABS decide we’ve had enough of it. Yep. And when they get it going, they’re just they wear you down and their ability to to get these timely scores time and time and again. And especially like late in the period, it feels like they’ve had a a lot of really loud goals going into the end of of periods when they maybe haven’t been their best. There’s just been a lot of like, yeah, that was a C minus period, but they got the goal they needed and now we’re tied and now they’re going to come out the next period and five minutes later they’re going to be out multiple goals and they just keep doing it over and over again. Especially these last two where I know the underlings look good in the first period of this game and I I think of that as more so New York just cannot generate offense at five on five. Um, but through these last two games, the ABS have done a great job of all right, maybe they started slow. Maybe there were some issues, some sluggishness, but they build throughout the game. This is not a, oh, we’re bad and then we’ve have a good five minutes, which they are capable of, and then it falls back off again. It’s a steady upward climb into where the ABS are, like you said, inevitable. They play too well. They answer the bell too well. Teams cannot keep up with them. And they have different issues at times. I think it’s actually a little bit refreshing to go through this season where they were scoring first a ton and then maybe they would let off the gas and have issues there and still get it back. The last couple of games they’ve given up that first goal and then have had a a slow build into answering it and then riding off into the sunset. Outside of special teams and more specifically the power play, there really has not been anything consistent to pick out from this team that you’re like, “This has to be better.” They’re just the best team in the league at five on five, full stop. I mean, I guess if you’re demanding perfection for 60 straight minutes, which is an impossible standard. Yeah. But yes, the power play needs to be better. I’ve seen a couple people in the chat maybe implying that we’re being too dismissive of of it, especially coming off of the the Stars loss in the postseason where obviously your power play was non-existent and and again it does matter. I keep saying it doesn’t matter until it does because we’ve seen that happen. That’s not to say that it’s it’s not something that needs to be or that doesn’t need to be solved. Like that is something they have to figure out because it is going to cost them games at some point. And the ABS will have to figure it out, but they’ve put themselves in a privileged position and they’re so good at five on five that they get to have time. How fortunate are we that we get to have these discussions from a place of comfort? Yeah. Right. It’s in a 6-3 victory. You’ve won seven straight games. You’ve lost one regulation game. There’s very, very little that the ABS need and you can foresee a bad power play being an issue for Colorado. And I think you’re right. But we get to go. They’ve won seven straight. We’re 20 games in. The only team even close to them in the West is Dallas. And you have a game in hand and four points on them, which Dallas did win again tonight, which is annoying. But the ABS did not lose any ground there. You get to go through the next 10 game stretch, 15 game stretch of the season and say, “We need the power play to be better.” But it doesn’t have to happen tomorrow. It doesn’t have to happen to allow the ABS to start winning games. It’s a lot more fun when it’s from a position of of strength. And then yeah, I mean, we’re at this point we’re getting greedy. And the ABS really should be set up for a decent next 10 as well. If we have that graphic, too, we can pull it up. Yeah, there’s some schedule weirdness. There’s some backtoback. There’s absolutely some trap games in there like Chicago, who the ABS always seem to find a way to lose to. I hate playing them. I really do. But but look at this schedule and tell me which of these teams should even be competitive with the ABS. Montreal [Music] beyond that. And yeah, like I said, the ABS are not going to win every game. They’re going to find ways to lose one or two along the way. But honestly, like eight and two should probably be the expectation of this next 10ame stretch. It’s really favorable outside of getting into I feel like traditionally the ABS and Nuggets both kind of struggle on that East Coast trip where you play the New York and and Philly type teams, but hopefully you’ve already got I mean you already had a sluggish trip out east so hopefully we got that one out of the way. You should be set up for success and again the ABS have to go out and do it. They have to earn it every single night like they did tonight which is I think an encouraging point in this game. We watched the New York Islanders game where not that the ABS didn’t deserve to win, but you could see how it could have been a trap game if not getting a great performance out of Scott Wedgewood. And their answer to that despite having three days off is to come out have to work through some stuff. But absolutely smoke the New York Rangers like really the team would what it was like six and one over their last seven road games coming in. Well, we will a great road team. We will make fun of their offense which is just an atrocious watch. That’s 82 games of that would not make me a big hockey fan. But no, they grind out games like they they find a way to win games. They understand how they have to play. It’s not like this was a nothing burger win. No, not by any stretch. The ABS went out and earned it every step of the way. And again, that’s where I give the ABS credit. This is a team that we’ve seen in the past can battle the emotions a little bit at times when things aren’t breaking their way. they can lean into the worst parts of their aspects to get more frustrated than it is ride the vibe and know that it’s coming. And you know, one of those main guys is Nathan McKinnon. We’ve watched him be an extremely emotional hockey player for his entire career. And at times that affects him in a great way where he becomes Mad Mack and goes crazy. But at times it also makes him a player that maybe doesn’t play the right way all the time. And his goals come from rebounds tonight. his goals come from puck bounces that he was doing the right things to put himself in the right situations and he gets rewarded for that and the ABS get rewarded for that and top to bottom this organization just feels like they have the sauce. I think just with how passionate he is again that can be a positive and a negative there’s always going to be an element of of volatility to him. Yeah, for sure. At the same time, sauce. Yeah, it it does feel like we’re seeing a locked in maybe a more mature, you know, Mac and I going into our 30s together trying to age gracefully. I’m maybe some of that’s having Landy be be back in the picture too, just having that steady captain presence. But the the mind the mentality of this team and it it’s hard to this is again like from my perspective of watching it like from an eye test standpoint. Yeah. And and they pass with flying colors. It’s not close. It the ABS I don’t know how you can take any angle on the Colorado Avalanche team beyond threeon-ree overtime and be that mad at it. Even in the power play, which needs to be better. I I we absolutely know that, but it’s not a 9% better than the numbers show. That’s one that’s going to regress to the mean. You you can watch that. You can take the eye test and watch the first two power plays of tonight and go that was pretty good. You know, Victor, they’ve had games where they scored multiple power play goals where the process was worse tonight, right? So, and then tonight. Yeah. It looks looks or analytics, statistics, any angle. I don’t know how you come to any conclusion, but the ABS are the best team in the NHL right now. And it’s game 20. You have 62 more games of the regular season. A long way to go where you have to continue being at the top. And then we all know where it really matters for the Avalanches in the playoffs. You can’t win that battle until you get there though. There though. So get there, do the job. I think we have a couple of super chats to get to or at least one and we can wrap this up. Oh, hey, two. I can count sometimes. Lucky. Uh Ryan with the $2 who says, “Let’s do that hockey.” Also, shaved. Rudo is the goat. The abs keep winning. So, I guess I got to keep shaving again. Sponsors, you’re missing out. I’m saying great opportunity. As our other super chat from Britain also says, uh, “Shaved Rudo equal chubby kale.” That’s I Kale’s a handsome guy. I mean, I don’t think my cheeks are quite as red, but mine are. I’m I’m a ros I’m a pale rosy kind of guy. Yeah, I mean, I’m I got the pale part down. I do that pretty well. But there are worse comps. Take it. Oh, I absolutely will take it. All right. That that’s getting compared to any hockey player is probably a win for me. Even the ones without teeth. So, most of them. I’m I ain’t mad at it. If I get if I can be chubby Kale, can I have like 1/100th of his hockey skill? Also, has there ever been a hockey player that rocked Rex specs? I don’t I feel like I’ve never seen a hockey player with glasses. I can’t say that I’ve ever seen one. Definitely a lot of ones that wear contacts. I I think probably not just cuz they all have the visors. When I that Yeah, it makes sense. When I see like a basketball player though, like a middle reliever in baseball rocking the Rex Specks, I’m just just a little bit. I root for him just a little bit more. Just more love it. Uh I maybe like back before my time, before helmets were a thing, there could have been some guys. I don’t know. But guess you’re risking taking a puck to the glasses at that point. Could be rough all the way around on on that front. Uh look, I don’t know what comes at seven. I know at five the abs are a wagon. I don’t know that we reached it out to seven to really talk about what it is. Slapshot. You’re right. That is true. The the brothers in the Slapshot movie, one of them had glasses. I That’s not real hockey, though. Um Oh, great. I I was fun. Yeah. I don’t know any other way to say it than enjoy the ride. Keep enjoying it. Don’t lose perspective of that. Yep. The abs are a blast all the way. I This is easily the best team since the 2022 team. Like to the point where it’s not really even that close at this point. Whispers. I think they’re better. I hope so. I’m not going to go there just yet. Let’s see what the the injury landscape looks like a month from now for starters. Yeah, that’s fair. Uh this team has some juice. I I I really think there is something about this team that they they haven’t had in the last couple of years. We’ll see what happens. We’ll leave it at that. We’ll wrap this thing up. We appreciate all of y’all hanging out with us on this one. We will be back tomorrow uh mailbag tomorrow. There’s a tweet out from the DNVR Avalanche account asking for questions. Go reply to that. Whatever you want to know about the ABS or otherwise Bailey and I will ask answer them even for you. But that’s it. We appreciate y’all. This has been the DNVR Avalanche postgame show presented by Bet 365. [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Multi goal nights from Makar and Mackinnon as the Colorado Avalanche stars carry the day over the New York Rangers. Nelson comes up with a big PP Goal and the Avs have won seven straight

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