Makar and the Colorado Avalanche ANNIHILATE the Edmonton Oilers | DNVR Avalanche Postgame Podcast

Makar and the Colorado Avalanche ANNIHILATE the Edmonton Oilers | DNVR Avalanche Postgame Podcast

[Music] Get down. [Music] Welcome in to the DNVR Avalanche postgame show presented by Bet 365. I imagine that’ll be the most dominant game of the season, at least on the scoreboard that we see from the Avalanche. Bailey and Rudo coming to you live after the ABS beat the Edmonton Oilers 9 to1. That one feels good. Feels really, really good to watch it go that way. That is the most fun I’ve had watching a hockey game in a long time. Nine goals, five goal scorers, no hat-ticks. Impressive work. Four different players scored two for the Avalanche. Yeah. I mean, what’s not to love? I I know you’re if you’re really trying to be a stickler, you’re going to sit it there and be like, “Oh, the ABS power play was bad. Oh, well, they was just because the Edmonton Oilers stuck.” And some of that is true, but also give the AS credit for dropping nine on a team. Yeah. you know, and and this is a team we we talked about in in the pregame show about having a lot of top end skill, and only one of those guys managed to get on the scoreboard. Marty Day just didn’t even have a point. No. No. And so, yes, you can say all you want about the Oilers being where they are in the standings. And, you know, maybe there’s good reason for that after tonight. But there there’s also something to be said about the ABS being a dominant team. And you know, the Oilers having their fair share of skill and ABS shut all of that down. Almost all of it. At five on five, this was not ever all that competitive. This wasn’t even a game. Yeah, in most cases, honestly. And I know some statistics will look pretty close on the stat sheet, and I’ll get into some of them a little bit later, but at five on five, I don’t know that the ABS can play a whole lot better. Ed, you can’t blame them for Edmonton’s goalies being bad, you know. And I want to give a a special part of the ABS credit here, too. The fourth line. Oh, yeah. Like we we talk all the time about the fourth line just being like a don’t mess up kind of line. And they they you know did that and then some. If you took away all of the scoring in this game from the ABS but the fourth line, the ABS still outscored them three to one. Yeah. which is an insane sentence to say, right, at this point, like, oh my god, let’s hit the 60-cond rundown before we get any further into this one. Uh, first period, tons of penalties, but neither team is really able to convert on them. The ABS pick up two goals at five on five, both from Kale Macar. We’re both a little soft, maybe, but still pretty good. You’re up two nothing. Should have been three nothing, but Gabe Landiskog is not allowed to score an onside goal. Uh, that’s annoying. Second period, the ABS just put this game away. They scored like 30 seconds in to make it three nothing and never looked back. Picking up two more goals, three more goals. Yeah, it was Was it 6-1 by the end of the second? I can’t even remember. There were so many goals. So, the ABS make it six to nothing at one point. Edmonton gets a power play goal from McDavid because it’s Conor McDavid. What are you going to do? You’re going to give him one eventually. Uh, and then the ABS just continue burying them in the third with three more goals for a 9-1 finish, including two goals from McKinnon, Mar, Kelly, and Drury. That’s eight goals right there. The other goal came from Gavin Brinley on that fourth line as we were just talking about. Not bad for a 10-goal game in 58 seconds. That’s not bad for me. I don’t mind that. No, not at all. Was this the the when I said a high-scoring matchup? Not what I foraw. It was high scoring for the ABS for sure. Yeah, that’s when I thought high scoring. I I expected it to be a little more even. This was Yeah. Pleas pleasant surprise all around. Uh overall great effort. Yeah. And again, does what the ABS did tonight get you nine goals against most teams goal goalending? Probably not. But also, the ABS have been stonewalled by some goalies best nights this year. Yeah, the ABS earned it, too. I I I really do think the ABS outplayed Edmonton in every facet. And you can’t even say that they lost the special teams battle because Parker Kelly got a a short-handed goal. Makes up for giving one up on the the penalty kill like that. That’s, you know, good. good things. Um, let’s go through this. Uh, we’ll start with some team stuff here. The ABS aren’t gonna shoot this high of a percentage, maybe ever again this season. But when you look at them finally breaking through on that offensive side, and I don’t necessarily just mean tonight, you’ve seen them start to put the puck in a little bit more consistently over this last stretch. Call it this stretch of 10. This was game 15, so game 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. Is this a little bit of a damn break in the sense of the ABS are in a place where they know they can beat goalenders now? You know, yes and no. I I think this is a a game that the Avalanche were due for like call call their due the the New Jersey game couple games ago, whatever. This was a game where you you see this team is struggling with finishing, but they’re putting up some really high danger opportunities and some of those like this just kind of feels like a really like kind of you’re doing okay. You’re you’re doing really good kind of game and the A is kind of getting rewarded for that. At the same time though, you’re not going to run into very many goalenders like a Steuart Skinner or Calvin Pickard combo. So there there’s also that to think about in saying like you’re going to run into some good goalenders. You may not run into a goalending tandem as bad as this, but you’re going to run into some bad ones as well. And the expectation is regardless of which goalender, which kind of goalender you’re facing that you’ll be able to break past them in any sort of way. It may not be a damn breaking, but at least a goal. Yeah. I mean, it’s never going to be this easy. It was that easy tonight, I guess. But you don’t ever expect it to go like that in your favor. What I will say is this was a game where the ABS kept doing it. Edmonton obviously zero goals at five on five, but even by the time Edmonton got on the scoreboard on their own power play, the game was over. The ABS gave this team so little at five on five when you’re talking about the actual play on the ice. And I I’m just not here for it that it was like, well, it was just Edmonton being bad. No, no, the ABS did a lot of making Edmonton look bad in this game. So, credit where credit’s due to Colorado on that one. Absolutely. Um, obviously you look up and down the forward core. I know there’s a handful of guys that didn’t end up with points tonight, but I don’t care. It’s a It’s a 9-1 game and enough scoring was you’re never going to see that, right? Like it’s very rare like a blue moon occurrence. Yeah. So, anything on the like specifics like that are just not things that I’m worried about. Ultimately, I I really don’t know how much better you play if you’re the Colorado Islanders. Yes, in a game where it’s 3-1, maybe the possession numbers look a little bit different, but when the puck goes in for you, you get the luxury of you don’t have to pile on shots. And I think they still ended up with like 34 or something. It’s not like it was a minimal amount. Uh and and the stat that really impresses me the most by a lot is the ABS had 10 high danger chances to Edmonton’s five in this game at five on five, you know, and and they’re just better. I feel like I need to I’m sure we’ll talk about him much more later down, you know, down the pod. Scott Wedgwood was not an easy night per se. like it it became easy became easy in a way but like you had to get through a couple early power plays and No, he I mean five high danger shots is you know what I would maybe consider an you know moderate night for some goalenders. He made some incredible saves throughout this game that really made it easy for the team in front of him to put up the performance that they did. Yeah, that first period from him was huge. Not that he like the workload wasn’t that high, but when you have the talent that the Edmonton Oilers have, you’re going to need some saves out of your goalender. They got him. By the end of the second period, I don’t The ABS maybe could have won this game with an empty net. But not that Wedgwood was bad. Wedgewood continers at that point. Uh but yeah, up and down the lineup. I mean, did anyone have a bad game tonight? I don’t think you can say anyone on the Avalanche you felt like had a poor game. Even if guys didn’t necessarily get on the stat sheet, even if guys didn’t play a ton. The only maybe complaint that you can make is of, you know, everybody who did not score, you only got one, you know, scoring situation out of your top line in Nathan McKinnon. Sure. Uh Martin Nest not not getting any points, but didn’t necessarily play poorly. Yeah, I he was fine. Yeah. Same same from Artur Lechin. Artur Lechinan was very noticeable tonight even if it wasn’t on the score sheet. The one guy who couldn’t finish tonight probably was like but still again the fact that we’re saying that about a guy again he was noticeable on the ice especially through the neutral zone I thought played played a really really good game just didn’t show up on the score sheet. I thought Jackan had a really really good game and and you look at the the time on ice and I do think this is an important note especially because the ABS play tomorrow. There aren’t too many guys that are really pushing heavy numbers on on time on ice when it comes to the ABS. I know, you know, you had a couple of forwards break 20 minutes, but 20 minutes is not a crazy amount. It was and it wasn’t McKinnon and Nushkin led all time on ice and forwards. Then you had Nas, then you had Olivesson, then you had McKinnon. That’s what a 9-1 win will do for you. Uh your non-top guys, Olivson and get a ton of that time because of the third period where you could let off the gas with them. Your second line only played like 16 17 minutes a pop. Even your defense, Macar played 2330, which is a lot, but for Macar that’s not a lot. That’s No, I was going to say this is a guy who’s nearing close to 28 minutes on on every single game tonight. And and you don’t see him get past 25. I call that a win. Oh, for sure. For like that’s Oh my god. You you do so much good for yourself when you put yourself in these situations. And it’s interesting because I think it shows a bit of a I don’t know if I would call it a learning curve or just the way this game went. But you look at that New Jersey game which they have scored eight in. They didn’t have that down four minutes where the game got interesting for a little bit and the ABS ultimately closed it out which gives them an opportunity to let off the gas a little bit more safely in this one. No, that that’s exactly what I was going to bring up and saying this feels a lot like the New Jersey game and the dominant fashion that it was except you don’t have that four minutes of lull hockey that you know is kind of taking your momentum away a little bit and this this is the kind of game that the Avalanche can show. We’ve mentioned multiple times a full 60 performance. I feel like this is about as close to a full 60 as you’re going to get. And I think the big breaking point there, not that the ABS are probably going to win this game anyway, but McDavid scores that goal in the power play. It’s 5-1. You take another penalty and you’re like, “All right, this isn’t great hockey from the ABS.” Parker Kelly shows up, scores a short-handed goal for you. Let’s talk about that backhand. Let’s I mean, I know AJ tweeted it out. Parker Kelly, number one shootout guy after he’s done this multiple times now this season. I feel like that’s a no-brainer at this point. If you’re getting to shootouts and that’s what it comes down to, it feels a little hard to not make that argument. It it clearly works for him, at least in a game. So, first shorty of the year for the ABS and it’s that’s exactly what was missing in the New Jersey game. And I again, I don’t have as many qualms as some people do with that New Jersey game, but the ABS punched back immediately when it came to that lull of the game or whatever you want to call it. And then from there, the third period, Edmonton was just like, “All right, let’s go home.” Yeah. It hardly at that point, it’s keep away. It’s let’s try not to get double digits put up on us by the end of the night. That that’s all it was. Yeah. It it just feels super good for the Yavs to have games like this. Mhm. And against an opponent like Edmonton, I do think it’s interesting because Edmonton has not been great to start the year, but they are absolutely a team that everyone knows can pop off at any moment. And again, not just nine goals. Edmonton did not score at five on five against the Colorado Avalanche in this game. You know, and we we talk all the time too about the ABS being one of, if not the best team at five on five in the National Hockey League. This rubber stamp that this game feels like something you can, you know, put on the marquee and be like, “This team is dangerous. Don’t mess with us at five on five or else this happens. You’re going to get cooked.” Yeah. A teamwide effort, too. I I know we’ll get a little bit more into the the forwards individually in a minute here, but when you look up and down the lineup, we already talked about the three goals from your fourth line, guys. You also had play from your second line. Ross Colton ended up with a multi-point night even if Landiskog and Nelson didn’t get on the scoreboard. Uh your other lines were all great. Your third line has multiple goals. Your top line ultimately has multiple goals. Are some of those garbage time? Absolutely. But go get yours. Your defense. Taves three points. Macar two goals. Molinsky and Burns both had points. Burns played 20 minutes tonight. Macar played over 20. Taves played 17 minutes tonight. Mhm. This is making your life easier. Only thing I I guess I will pose to you then you get production from pretty much every single facet of this team or every every single position of this team except the second line. Yeah. Is that something that rings any sort of alarms in your head? I would say no. I mean obviously you want your second line to score every night that you want everyone to score every night. But when you look at what the second line has been giving you, Nelson, it’s now three points in his last six games, which is a little on the low side. You’d like a little bit more than that. But if your second line is going to go quiet on a night that you scored nine goals, that’s the right time to do it. When you’re in a two- two game tomorrow night and you need something, that’s when you need your second line to step up. you you I don’t feel like it’s worth nitpicking the lack of production on a night where you had production in spades, right? You don’t have to overthink about the negatives, especially because the ABS got it from everywhere else. If the ABS path to success is that your third line scores a bunch of goals and your second line doesn’t, eventually your third line just becomes your second line. So, I mean, that’s certainly how they how they were deployed tonight. Yeah. So, like that that’s a little hard to argue with. It’s you’re just looking for reasons to be upset, I think, if you’re worried about the second line production. Uh, we do need to take our first break of the show, so let’s make sure we’re shouting out our sponsors uh with the chicken and pickle. It’s up in Thornton, your spot for good food, good friends, and great fun. Honestly, third period, I think the Oilers were thinking about the chicken and pickle more than this hockey game. They were trying to get out there and play some pickle ball. Uh they have indoor and outdoor pickle ball courts, delicious food. They even have a Sunday brunch buffet if you’re getting up tomorrow before the game. Great place to go check out. 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Parker Kelly. That one would have been. It’s not very often that you’re watching a guy where if he had gotten a hat-tick, I would have been confident that will be the only hattick of Parker Kelly’s career, but I would have been pretty confident had he gotten it. Uh McKinnon has a bunch. I don’t care about McKinnon hat-ticks. I mean, obviously, I’d like to watch them because it’s good when the ABS are getting goals, but seeing that Macar even has a hat-tick in his career. If he hadn’t had one already, I would have been rooting for that a little bit more. Yeah. Uh the jury one would have been super cool, too. But very funny that the ABS found a way to not get a hat-tick in this game. That that’s I think the the quirkiest part about this game for me is like you have that many opportunities. And and I mean we were all joking during the the watch along like if that’s the line that you run. Yeah. Like you you run get a Taves out there, maybe get him something, but run it like a power play. Get I guess Mar’s a D, but yeah, it would have been nice. And Kelly had a couple of chances that wouldn’t go. McKinnon probably should have had a hat-tick. I think Nate just blocked a puck from going in for Mcm hat-tick. Um, but yeah, it’s it’s a lot more fun when you’re talking about who’s going to get the hattick and maybe you come up a little bit short as opposed to who’s going to score the big goal for the ABS. They need to win this game as opposed to being like super nitpicky about this team. That is a fun conversation to have. And that’s the ABS have been a highly entertaining team all year, but it does feel like with the New Jersey game and with this game, the ABS haven’t had a ton of this over the last couple of years where they really just go in and are work teams over. Whether that’s the other teams being poor, the ABS being good, I don’t really care. It does feel like another trick in the bag for the ABS that on any given night they can just blow a team out. No. And I think this just speaks volumes about the kind of team that the ABS are this season. I think as well, we’re we’re seeing a team with a bit of a different identity than the team had last season. You’re you’re seeing a similar identity to maybe what they were trying to achieve at the trade deadline. Yep. With a super deep team. This is a team that they think can do it all. And you’re seeing a lot of different shades of that early on through this season. Yep. um team teams that again that full 60 effort I want to bring that up the the contributions from the blue line the depth that they can deploy in any any given situation at any given time. I was afraid that this team this game was going to turn into a game where they start shortening the bench and you see a lot of that leeway given where Bedar is just kind of like go ham do your thing and they deserved it totally tonight as well every stretch of the imagination the AS deserved it. Um, do we have our three stars? Do we want to jump into our three star conversation tonight? Our number three, the goalending, honestly, from both sides. Not Not to take away from Wedgie. He was great. Uh, Bailey, you mentioned it. If you don’t get a couple of good saves out of Wedgewood in the first period, this game looks a lot different. Oh, yeah. Through that second period, the first half of it, Wedgewood did not have a lot of work to do. But you hold Edmonton to what was it? One for six on their power play. I Yeah, I don’t have that number off the top of my head. Not Not all that important exactly what the number was, but either way, Wedgewood made sure a game that should not have been close was not close at the end of the day. Well, let’s talk about these shot totals through, you know, all three periods, too. Your team holds Edmonton to six pretty good in the first period. You get into double digits in the second period with 10 and How many of those were power play only too, right? Like and then you get back to single digits in the third. Like that’s testament. Yeah. To your defense for maybe not letting much through. But like you got to give your credit to Scott Wedgewood because some of those shots that they created were were genuinely good. Yeah. Genuinely like scary shots. And oh god, there was one stretch save that he had. I I think it was towards the end of the game. Yeah. Which it blew my mind. And like I I do think it’s worth noting that and you saw this in the third period. Yeah, the ABS stars kicked it into cruise control a little bit in the third period, but those guys at the bottom of the lineup to the final buzzer. Bartikov was working hard. Gavin Brinley was working hard in goal. Scott Wedgwood was working hard. Everyone knows their role on the Colorado Avalanche right now. They’re all doing what they need to be doing. No one’s trying to go beyond what they need to do. No one’s underperforming in that regard. No. Uh it’s super fun to watch. Wedgie deserves a ton of credit. Um both Edmonton Oilers also get a little bit of credit for this. No, I I think I would absolutely group them into the third star. Thank you so much for allowing the Colorado Avalanche to put up nine, almost 10, but we’ll we’ll we’ll I guess stay with nine. Second star of the game is the Avalanche defense as a whole. They have seven points, two goals from Kale Mar, three points for Devontaves. This is the game you needed out of your top pairing, especially after maybe a couple of games that you wanted a little bit more out of them. Are Macar’s goals a little bit cheap? Absolutely. But guess what? A worst shot doesn’t go in on those Macar goals. Taves doesn’t get three points if they aren’t playing to their ability. No. And the only thing that would have made this better for the ABS defense would be Taves getting on the board. Like that is literally the only the only like I I wouldn’t even call it a gripe. Yeah. At that point too like Devont Taves played an incredible game especially in the defensive zone. Multiple shifts where he owned McDavid like Yeah. Like that that’s and that’s hard to do. Yes. Like that is incredibly difficult to do. And Devonte’s I mean you hear about a guy even without being on the score sheet the way that he is or at least in when it comes to goals is still a guy who’s in contest for one of the being one of the best defenseman in the league. Yep. It pretty good. Yeah. Like if if that’s the gripe that I have with Devon Taves like that that’s an incredible performance from him tonight. Outrageously good top to bottom to the defense. Kyle, thank you for upgrading your membership. Can we get some Dr. dubs in chat cuz we also have hit over 100 likes. We appreciate y’all. Some winner shots here. Let’s go. Cheers to you. Cheers. 91. Let’s do this again sometime. The rest of the defense too though. Brett Burns awesome tonight. Had one play where he almost got cooked and guess what? He makes a great play to save up for it. Yep. That’s the commitment. That’s the play you need out of your defense. Even if it’s a guy that isn’t necessarily doing a ton offensively, although I thought Brent Burns was actually really good and had an unbelievable assist on Jack Dury’s first goal, every step of the way in the ABS lineup, you feel confident in, and I think that’s an important part of the conversation we were getting into earlier. When your depth is not just, hey, we’re trying to survive with you guys. When your depth is, okay, Jack Dury, go kill. It feels really good. I I do want to point out and saying this is probably my favorite game from Brent Burns. I think that’s fair. Yeah, the finish in Vegas was super nice on that game-winning goal, but as a whole of a game. Yeah. Yeah. No, I I really love this game and and it makes you excited for what his capabilities are down the road, too, because we’ve had some not so fun games from Brent Burns so far. There have been some struggle ones, but it does feel like he’s settled in very much, especially over these last five games. Again, you talk about finding roles, and that’s been one of the ones that I’ve been kind of waiting to settle. Yeah. In a little bit, and it finally feels like he’s starting to get into that. He’s leaning into a lot of the strengths that he still has this late in his career. It’s fun to watch. It really is. It is. I mean, everything about this game was fun to watch. Don’t shoot. Thank you for becoming a member as well. We appreciate y’all. It’s a good way to support us. We have a ton more emojis than we used to. We have even more coming on the next for tomorrow when the Nuggets don’t play. will have even more emojis for the watch along. So, you all want to y’all want to get in on that. Our number one star is the ABS forward core. 17 points they combine for in this game. That’s a lot of points. That’s a lot of goals, man. I I don’t I don’t know how much more I can really say about this. Just it’s a top tobottom contribution from this team. Yep. the the fact that the offense I mean, you know, obviously there’s a lot more forwards than there are Dmen, but the way that everybody was able to contribute. 17’s a big number. It that’s that’s a abnormally large number. Nathan McKinnon had a four-point night and he might have been like your fourth best forward in this game. Like genuinely that and that that’s an insane thing to say. Yeah. But like that’s genuinely what this game was is a top tobottom effort. You’re getting contributions from everywhere. If I if I were going to hone in on something specifically, I mean, we talked about the fourth line at the beginning. Like that that is easily my favorite line of the night. You get contributions from Parker Kelly. Gavin Brinley in his first game back since his concussion shows up. Has a multi-point night by the way. You give up Charlie Coyle and Miles Wood. And you get Gavin Brinley who and and I I feel weird for like highlighting him as much as I I’m going to here. Yeah. But like this is a guy again you expect to start his season in the AHL. Started a season with the Colorado Eagles and pop off like you expect him to be one of the best players up there. He’s you expect him to be what Gushin is doing. Right. Exactly. But he’s like he’s fought himself. He’s just been too good. He’s just been too good. He’s made a conversation for Jared Bednar and company as to why you cannot send him down. This game is exactly what he was working for. And I mean, he he gets rewarded for it. You get a goal, you get a couple points. I I mean, it’s an incredible night for Gavin Brenley. Something he he absolutely deserves through the many games that he’s played so far with this team. to do it on the night that he returned from injury like that. That’s no slow pick it back up. Jump right back in and do the job. Four points in 13 games for Brinley, including tonight. By the way, Miles Wood has four points for Columbus. And I know the trade is a little more complicated than that one to one. It’s it’s a cap dump, but like still to get what the Avalanche did. Yeah. Out of that. And oh, by the way, Zakar Bardikov had two assists tonight also on top of Parker Kelly’s three-point night. Like, and I I’ll mention too, this was not like Bartikov was good. Don’t get me wrong. He was okay. Not my favorite game from him, but still like he showed up. Yeah. And that’s exactly what you want, especially from your depth players. Your depth players aren’t going to be awesome every single night. Two of your three fourth liners, I would argue, were awesome tonight. Yeah. And Bartikov found a way to be effective, even if there is a little bit of chaoticness from Bartikov’s game that I think you’re just going to have to live with. But yeah, and I mean, let’s be honest, and this is not a knock against Bikov, but you’re not taking Dean Brinley out of the lineup when LOC gets back. You’re just not. It’s Yeah, it comes down to who’s a more effective player. And while Bartikov proved himself to be somewhat effective tonight, like it’s Gav Brinley was better. The conversation becomes how do you send Gavin Brinley back down when he’s playing the way that he is? You can’t you cannot take that guy out of the lineup. No, you just can’t. And and if nothing else, it shows through with the time on ice that Benar is willing to give Gavin Brinley, just how much he’s earned with Colorado this year. And that’s the conversation I was going to bring up here next, too. I know this game is kind of an anomaly for sure. Where you’re not going to put up a niner on on teams every single night. If you did, you are the best team ever. Yeah. Right. But we we’ve seen some situations here in the last couple games where Benar has significantly shortened the bench. You’re not you’re seeing these guys maybe get five six minutes a night if that Yeah. How in this situation like say against a Vancouver tomorrow how how do you see this team this line being deployed? I think it’ll be interesting. I you know there is a lot of that with Bednar where it’s situational. If the ABS are down a goal you’re not going to see the fourth line. Betard will literally play Nathan McKinnon in 40 minutes if the ABS are in that situation. He does not care. But Parker Kelly 10:32 tonight. Gavin Brinley 10:15 tonight. Bardikov only played 636. So I still think there is a lack of trust in Bartikov there. But certainly Bedar trusts obviously Parker Kelly, but he also trusts Gavin Brinley to a point now where he is at least willing to put them on the ice. We’re not gonna see, assuming they can continue to roll that line as is until LOC gets back. We’re we’re beyond the four minute a night thing. Yeah, we’re we’re not going to see a whole lot of that anymore. We’re at least going to see them be a real fourth line get to seven, eight minutes type of thing with Kelly and Brinley. I am very excited once LOC’s return gets a little bit closer, which to mention he like was potentially projected to be this weekend, if not like next weekend. It sounds like it probably next. Very very close. Yes, this conversation’s going I mean to happen sooner rather than later. It it is that conversation between Brinley and Bardikov which again showing how Bedar places his trust. You see a lot more of that in a Brinley than you do in a Bardikov. And it’s unfortunate because you go into this season with the expectation that Zakar Bartikov is going to fill that 4C role and he’s going to fill it well. And it it’s been okay. It’s been okay. But that that proof that that trust is there for Parker Kelly to play that position better than Bardikov does makes it that much easier to pull Bardikov from the lineup. Put LOC in and you’ve got a very dangerous fourth line. By the way, after tonight, Parker Kelly on a 35 point pace. He’s never broken 20 in his career. Pretty good. Yeah, this is I I’m excited to see if this is the way Parker Kelly’s performing through what 15 games. Yeah. Now, like that that’s I am super excited to see what he does through 82. A surprising level of consistency from him on the offensive side. The defense we know is great. that that’s been a staple of Parker Kelly’s game, but there has been an offensive punch from him that not to be rude, but I wasn’t sure he had it in the bag, you know, and it’s the word leadership kind of shows up when you talk about a Parker Kelly because this is a guy who’s really had to take a a head role on this fourth line. He’s the leader of that line now, just as the veteran presence and awesome guy. I I said it on the watch along. We interviewed him in preseason. Probably one of the best interviews I’ve ever been a part of. Love talking to Parker Kelly. Absolutely awesome guy. Go check that out if you haven’t. It’s on our YouTube channel. Um nothing but but positives for me. We’re going to talk about a few brief negatives in the third period here, but those are just to balance the scales on a night that should be all positive for the Avalanche. 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Yeah, it’s it’s hard to pull any sort of, you know, bad situation from this game there. There’s I I mean, I’m sure we’ll get into the negatives, but it won’t be a long segment, but No, but I don’t know. It’s hard to fathom just how many points were on the score sheet. And I I want to mention that because it could have been more. Parker Kelly does not have any assists associated to his goal. Yep. Um Nathan McKinnon only had one assist on his secondary. This could have we we could be talking about a 19. There should have been a Gabe Landis goal in this game. Yeah. But it’s that point total is I think what stands out to me the most. It’s it’s a hard number for me to fathom. It’s ridiculous. This type of production is obviously not sustainable. No. But also, there are I would dare to say the majority of teams in the league will not have a night with this much production. No. This entire season. No. The ABS have that firepower that they’re able to do something like this at all. Even if it does take a poor performance against them to get there. You can be the best team in the league consistently through 82 games and you’re maybe only getting one or two of these this season. And the ABS have two in the past two weeks. Yeah. And I I think that just goes to show how special of a group this is. They’ve got their flaws. Yep. Don’t get me wrong. Like there are still things that we we could absolutely, you know, hit the hammer on and beat until, you know, it’s black and blue, but this is a dominant team. This is a team that I don’t know what other word to use other than special. Like they they’ve got the depth, they’ve got the star power, they’ve got the goalending, which again from your backup goalender, starter has played one game this year. He’s going to play his second ideally tomorrow. Yep. But your starter is not back. You’re getting this from your backup goalender. This team, it’s it’s hard. It’s got the juice. Yeah. It’s really hard for me to be disappointed in what we’ve seen from them so far. There’s things that are, you know, again, little stubborn pieces that I’d love to harp on, you know, down the road, and I’m sure I will, but that aside, like, it is really, really difficult with the performance that this team has put up so far for me to sit there and say, I don’t like this team’s chances come game 82 when they head into the playoffs. If you’re watching this team and you’re not saying they’re the best team in the league right now, I guess we just see hockey differently. That’s where I’m at with it. Um, yeah, we can uh we can move on here. And I do want to mention the negatives just to try and be somewhat balanced in this game. Uh, short segment. One of them somewhat real, one of them more of a meme. the real one. The ABS scored nine goals tonight and none of them came on the power play. Yeah, you get Oh god, what was it? Seven power play opportunities and one of those is fake to be fair. It was like a 20 second one, but still still seven opportunities. Yeah, including a five on three. Yeah, also including what was it? A double minor. Yeah, four straight minutes. Yeah, I will say the double miners and garbage time. Like the ABS aren’t too particularly worried about needing a goal at that point, but you still win 0 for seven. This is a game where you’re dominating that much getting cute is, you know, acceptable to a point. Yeah. But the idea should be that the I I don’t know. I go about this two different ways. one, you don’t want to let off the gas because this is an insanely dominant game, but again, it’s the first game of a backto-back and so how much are they conserving some legs in situations like that? At the same time, yes, that double minor, maybe you don’t need a goal there, but it’s something to show for out of an otherwise very dominant game from this team. Yeah. And you can absolutely flip that into a positive and be like, the power play sucked and the ABS still scored nine goals. really really good. You also want your power play to score. And some of that conversation is well, you know, they had some good power plays. They had some bad ones tonight. Some of that conversation is if you’re going to pick a night to not score on a power play, one like this is good. But for the negatives you can nitpick out of this game, the power play continues to be one that keeps coming up every night. You know, and this is one you brought up too of the few, you know, shots that like they they put up a ton of shots. Yep. In in each period, a lot of which many of which came from the power play, I would say. So, it’s not for lack of shooting in some areas. You’re maybe looking at some areas and saying they are making the extra pass. Martine that just comes to mind in some of those. Yeah, a lot of overpassing from Marty tonight. But for the most part, like the movement looks great in in a lot of these power plays. You’re seeing the you’re not seeing the stagnant nature of this ABS team that you’ve been seeing in games past, especially before that New Jersey game. More issues tonight with the entry, which is weird. And I to be honest, that’s something that I’m willing to not worry about. The ABS are too good of an entry team for that to be a long-term problem. Um and and I don’t even think we need to talk about the power play anymore. Yes, it was bad. you still dominated the game. Move on. Uh the other negative, and if you’re new to the show, I’m not a superstitious guy. I don’t believe in any of that stuff. And yet, I’m only half joking when I say, is Gabe Landiskog actually cursed? I, you know, I I’m halfway tempted to to draft an email to the league, be like, what do we need to do to get this man a goal, a deserved goal, by the way? I mean, I don’t know that I think he probably deserved this one and it certainly deserved the other one that’s been taken off the board for him. And yes, the ABS were offside. It’s the correct call. I’m not trying to get into that. But how does this keep happening to Gabe specifically? I don’t I I don’t know what hockey gods he pissed off somebody. Yeah, something. But, you know, with the way that he’s played, it’s something I I was talking to somebody somebody about before the game and saying like aside from being the only forward on this team without a goal to his name in a in a situation where maybe it like yes, this one you can say it’s most definitely offsides. It’s a pretty goal, but it is off sides. Yeah. Um he deserves to at least have one to his name, but he’s playing the role that he needs to. He he would even say in situations like yeah maybe his game’s not where he wants it to be. It’s to be expected. I I don’t know how many times I differently I can say that and saying like it’s hard to come back after three seasons spent rehabbing the same injury to the same knee. Crazy they playing it all. Yeah. Right. No, this is not an a comeback that I expected at all. So to say that he’s playing and playing his role well, I think is a positive to put in the the Gabe Land column. I think that’s the key that I take away. This is a guy who’s had multiple goals taken away from him and certainly over the past eight to 10 games has you you’ve you’re seeing it come back. He’s been a quality NHL player for the ABS pretty much since they dropped him down to that third line. Yeah. A lot of good stuff from Gabe. So yeah, it’s it’s hard to be mad at anything that he did tonight. Like, but again, you could say that for anybody on this team. Gabe Landiskog, I don’t know. You you see him flourish. You do when you get down to that third line, and that that’s I think a testament to the the culture around this team, too, is yes, you want to strive to be a topline guy every single night. That that’s a role he once held, but at the same time, like, you’re doing your job. Yep. That’s I think all you can ask from a guy like Gabe Landis. A lot more to hockey than just scoring. It turns out, although it didn’t feel like it in this game, this is not the game to prove that point, Rudo. You’re not wrong. In this one, it might only be about the scoring. Which to get back to positives, we’re what almost 50 minutes into this show. Jack Drury had multiple goals tonight and we’ve barely mentioned him. Yeah, that’s how good of a night it was. And Jack Drury, by the way, as continues to be awesome. There is I think there’s a world where at this point in the season the ABS are sitting there going, “Hey, we probably need a 3C at the deadline.” Yeah. Nope. No, not at all. Again, this is a guy that before this season started, that was one of the main holes, if not the main hole that Jared Bedar talked about this team having. Yep. And later mentions that Jack Drury was ideally the first guy in line for this job. I I was asked before the season if there was any doubt in my mind that Jack Jury could be a 3C and I said no not in my mind at all. This is a guy who is pro a proven elite fourthline center who is proving to be an elite third line center. Yeah, Jack Dury was first in line and they closed the line behind. Yeah, it’s it it proves a lot to this team’s depth to to sit there and say you have a guy who is as smart as Jack Drury is. Not not just a smart hockey player in like off the score sheet. Like this is a guy who knows how to get into correct positioning. He he knows how to play the puck well. He’s got great touches. He he’s got great He’s great at building chemistry with his teammates. He plays such a smart and simple game at times, too. I think that first goal is a perfect example of what Jack Drury does. The ads are changing there. They sent two guys to the bench. Brent Burns has the puck and Drury just belines it to the middle of the ice and charges the goal. Brent Burns puts an unbelievable pass on that. Don’t get me wrong, that that goal is more Burnses than it is Drury’s. But Drury puts himself in a position where he just has to get his stick on a puck and it goes in the back of the net. And for all of the weak goalending that Edmonton got in this game, a goal like that is not weak. That’ll that’ll play against anybody in the league. That’s a beautiful goal. Yep. No, the again the touches the the way that this man sees the ice and you know I before he got to Colorado I I loved the shot that he had. He’s got such a sharp shot. He can shoot from anywhere on the ice and make it look like a dangerous shot. and and he’s he’s proving to be that allaround kind of player that I I knew he could be, but he had yet to get to that level with the Colorado Avalanche. And this kind of game just seemed like an awakening. Yep. For him, it was uh another fun thing to watch. I mean, it was all fun. I I keep picking up like, “Oh, that was fun. Oh, that was fun.” Point something out. It’s hard to point something out in this game where I was like, “I didn’t like that.” True. I I do think even in in the parts of the game where you felt like, “Oh, that wasn’t a great defensive play,” or, “Oh, the ABS made a mistake here.” Oh, maybe the ABS overpassed. It didn’t matter because the next play was better. The next play was a quality one. The ABS did not string mistakes together pretty much at all across the course of this game. And that’s it. That’s that’s as close to perfect hockey as you can play. You’re never going to play a game with no mistakes, but if you’re not making multiple mistakes in a row, it’s really hard to beat you. Yeah. No, again, I I I’ll mention the full 60 effort that Jared Bedar and company has preached. Yep. Through the start of this season. This is about as close as it gets. Yeah, I would agree. I They’re not all going to be that easy, but to get this one. Yeah, it I mean, come on. What What’s not to love, right? Um yeah, top to bottom in the lineup, too. super duper impressive for me that the ABS can get it from anywhere. And I I’m starting to believe, yeah, look, do you want more production at a Brock Nelson? Sure. Do you really know what you’re doing with your four C position? No. If you want to tell me the ABS aren’t the deepest in the world at center, I’ll buy that. I think they’re probably the deepest team in the league at wing. No, their wings are so good. It it’s hard to complain when your fourthline wings are Parker Kelly and Gavin Brinley. Yeah, it it’s really hard to complain about that and say that that’s not deep. It’s It’s more than deep at this point. You’re talking about a Parker Kelly that’s producing in a way that some third line wingers on other teams are. Yeah. Some second line wingers on on certain teams are like this is it’s insane production. I don’t know how you’re not I mean Yeah. Again, say what you’ll say about center position. I’ll I’ll give you that one, but it’s hard to complain about the depth at wing. Really hard. I don’t take a ton out of possession stats in this game because of the score differential was as big as it was. But your fourth line was your best possession line tonight around 75% Cory4. Your third line, the one where Landiskog didn’t score and you you’re trying to get a little bit more there. your second best possession line 65 to 70% Cory4. So your depth lines are dominating the puck against teams like this. It’s exactly what we talked about in the pregame where it’s like hey you want the ABS stars to go out duel their stars but where the ABS should have a clear advantage is the depth and they absolutely had one in this game. It’s you no game ever survives the script writing. Obviously, you have to play the game you’re in and adapt, but if you were writing a script, this is the one you were writing. Yeah, absolutely. No. And again, too, special teams weren’t perfect. No. All all around the board tonight. Um, but you know, that comes to show for itself. Parker Kelly kind of earns that one back. Get you even. It’s And that just seems like a beautiful part of the script, too. if we’re going to talk about that like every script to a great story has conflict. Every single script to a great story has a climax and you you know a low spot and that’s maybe the one low spot I give is you know your power play or your penalty kill which is second in the league before this game at this point. like not to like brag, but like this this is a great penalty kill. Let’s up on a goal from none other than Conor McDavid, but you get it back on the shorty like that that if that’s not, you know, romantic and poetic. Yeah, it’s I I don’t know what is. And I know it doesn’t necessarily help the ABS PK numbers, but against the second best power play in the league, you gave up one on six. Your penalty kill was actually quite good tonight. Yeah. considering what you were up against on the power play, not to mention going net even with the with the short-handed goal. So, uh, really, really good stuff from that point. Uh, I do think we have a couple of super chats to get to and then we’ll get into our wrap-up of the show. $5 from Ryan who says, “New rule. Next coach who wants to challenge Ly’s first goal has to get on the ice and beat him in a fist fight first.” Uh, also at best at 5v5, greater than everything. Yeah. You had to pick one part of the game to be the best at. 5v5 would be the one. Absolutely. The the ABS are creating a very fun conversation in the league about their five on five play. It’s becoming a team that is really really hard to dominate at full strength. Yeah. Like crazy good. And yeah, not just that, hey, they’re scoring a ton and maybe there’s some unsustainable factors to it, but there are a lot of underlying stuff that their possession and quality play is sustainable at five on five and they’re going to be a really good team. I mean, they already are a really good team. Oh yeah. 14 from Drew who says, “Do the Edmonton players actions at the blue line.” Due to the Edmonton players action at the blue line, the play is on side. Landy’s goal counts. ABS get 10 and just say they don’t need the power play to dominate. The actions forced onto Jack Drew forced him to be offside. Therefore, we have a good goal. Look, this is all just karmic buildup. All right, the the next landing goal is going to be insane, but at the same time, like I’m at the point I I don’t really cheer anyway, but like I will cheer for that. Like as soon as that puck is dropped for the the middle of the ice counts, you know that it actually counts. I’m sitting there like, “Thank God.” We’re getting to that point where Lanny’s going to score and the crowd is going to be silent until the puck actually drops cuz they’re all like, I know better. No, this is karma. I’m There’s going to be a goal in the playoffs this year that Landy scores where there’s going to be a questionable offside situation and it’s going to go the ABS way. He’s just building up the karma. I I don’t know what to say at this point for for Landy. All All I know is it like if anybody’s due for anything. It’s Gabe Landis for a goal. Freaking land. No kidding. Uh and yeah, I mean the ABS dominated with nine goals at five on five. So that statement is just correct. Yeah. $5 from Trevor who says, “Your reminder for dumping Coil and Woods contract to Columbus. They gave us Brinley a second and a third round pick. pretty good piece of business. And I know Charlie Coyle’s been producing pretty decently in Columbus, but you have to remember that Charlie Coyle is playing a lot in Columbus and would have been a 3C here. So the conversation of what Coyle’s role would be would have been a little bit different. Yeah. And you know, I I’m sure Coyle on the team would have been a a great feeling. You’re talking about a situation that would have made the avalanche, you know, okay. Yeah. versus a situation that allowed the avalanche to be great. Yep. And they are It’s not I know the conversation is like, well, Brock Nelson 2C hasn’t produced enough. Yeah, you’re not wrong. But he also has three points in his last six games. Again, the ABS second line continues to do a lot of really good things even when they aren’t necessarily producing at the level that you want. And I’m sitting in a place with that line where it feels more like it’s fine. it. The production is okay. It’s not as bad as it was, and I think more is coming. And even then, Ross Colton had a two-point night tonight. It’s not like you got nothing out of your second line guys. And I know you’d rather have it from Nelson or or whatever. You’ve also been on a little bit of a dry spell for Nachushkin that I think is inevitable that it won’t last. He’s playing way too well. Mhm. This is This is how good the ABS are that we’re like nitpicking the second line for they’re playing really well. They’re just not scoring enough on a night where the AB scored nine goals. There are worse problems to have. Yes, I I will say, but it’s really hard to complain. I believe this game put the Avalanche back in first in the league. So, it’s it’s really hard to complain when you know that’s the standard that this ABS team is setting. First in the league or bust, I suppose. Yeah. Montreal. Does the President’s Trophy curse exist at that point? The ABS have won a Stanley Cup in a year they won the President’s Trophy. So, I I ain’t sweating that. The ABS do jump one point ahead of Montreal as it stands currently. Montreal won earlier today. So, good stuff there. On the stats, after the uh the blow up of points from the ABS, McKinnon now tied for the lead in the league. Cassellini scored today two at 24 points. Kale Mar is cooking all defenseman in every category you can possibly imagine. The ABS are really good at everything. I I don’t know what you want me to say beyond that. That’s just how good Colorado has been this year. Uh, Bailey, I asked you this in the pregame as a comparison to McDavid, but who’s been better this year, Nathan McKinnon or Kale Mar? Nathan McKinnon. Okay, I buy that. Nathan McKinnon. Absolutely. It’s It’s hard to Yes. The the assists alone with the points that came putting up is incredible. Two two goal game is no slouch. Yep. from a a guy who’s I mean won the Norris multiple times, but the way that the cylinder at which Nathan McKinnon is firing off of right now is it’s hard. It’s hard to not give it to him on a 65 goal pace is Nathan McKinnon right now by the way. Not that he’s going to keep that up, but for a guy in McKinnon’s entire career has always been a volume shooter to an absurd degree, and that’s still true. He’s still shooting the puck a ton, and that’s good. That’s who Nathan McKinnon is. That’s what he needs to be. Uh he is also shooting 18% right now. And you know, your logical brain says that’s not sustainable. It’s going to come down a little bit, but with players that good, there’s a nonzero chance that he just shoots 17% randomly this year and just has one of those years. Yeah, it’s I I had a weird conversation at the end of last year where it’s like wi with the scoring totals from last year, Nathan McKinnon like I mean popped off. It was an incredible season, but that’s low for something that Nathan’s put up in the past as for his goal scoring ability. This seems like an upward trend from last year, which again is a crazy sentence to say. Insane to say that Nathan McKinnon had a down year last year, which is again not true, but also considering what he’s put up in the past. Technically is. So, but he he seems to be on a really really dangerous pace at the current moment. It’s really, really good from everybody involved with the two goals. Tonight, Mar’s back up to six goals. Maybe he flirts with that 30 number again. That’s to do that two seasons in a row. Yes. Would be unbelievable. Yeah. Almost impossible, you might even say, but he’s Kale Macar, so nothing is impossible, I guess, right? Superman. Just to run through a little bit of the abs statistically after tonight. McKinnon 24 points, Macar 20 points. Nas even with no points tonight is still at 18. Not a guy you’re worrying about the production. Olivesson picked up a point tonight. He’s got 13 points. Lechin on 13 points. Nachushkin still sitting on nine even with his little dry spell with tonight. Colton’s up to eight points over half a point per game on a solid 40 goal pace. Parker Kelly, Jack Drury, Brent Burns, Sam Molinsky all at seven points on the season. The ABS are not lacking in production. Even if there are some guys that you want to pick it up, other people are filling that gap and and the ABS can get away with it. It’s honestly I don’t know that the ABS have ever been a scoring by committee team ever in their history. And I don’t even think they are this year obviously with McKinnon and Macar at the top of that list, but they’re getting a little bit more of that scoring from everywhere this year that it feels like they’ve maybe been missing for a couple seasons. Oh, absolutely. And again, I even after a game like this, I wouldn’t go as far as to say that the Avalanche are not a topheavy scoring team. Like this is the way that McKinnon, the way that Ness has shown that he can produce through the games that he’s played so far. I would still say that the top line is, you know, contributing a lot of that. But to see this capability, yeah, I is really like that that’s the point I guess I’m trying to get at is yes, they are still a topheavy scoring team, but depth. Yes. Again, the way I put it is if you’re not topheavy, your top line’s bad. Yeah. Uh so to some extent, every good team is topheavy, but I agree with you that the ABS are less topheavy in the sense of especially last year, there were a lot of times where it was like, it’s got to be the top line or nobody. Yeah. And now it’s like, yeah, your top line’s going to do some heavy lifting, but you can get it from anywhere. So, good stuff there. I think we’re already in overtime. Conversation continues online at ddnvr.com. Bailey, any final thoughts before we get out of here since it is tomorrow? Last point I want to bring up. If you had to pick one favorite player from tonight, that’s tough. That’s a tough answer. Um, I think it’s probably Jack Dury. Okay. I I think exemplary play from a depth guy. All of his goals are hard earned and well played, even if you know there were other good goals, too. You get it all from that ABS depth tonight as a whole. And Jack Drury is I don’t know that he’s necessarily the the lynch pin. Obviously, Victor Olison’s been great as as part of that line and and you’ve seen some other guys move up and be really good throughout the ABS lineup, but Jack Drury is starting to become kind of the guy you look to in that bottom six, I think, to lead the way. Yep. No, I Jack Drury was going to be my answer tonight as well. Good. Multiple answers fair from the chat. You could give it to Brinley. You could give it to Kelly. The ABS had it all from their depth tonight. Yeah. Um, we are going to wrap up the show today though because we have to do another show. Well, it’ll probably be tomorrow again because it’s another late start. But more stuff to come on the backtoback. At least the ABS are going to be playing a tired team in Vancouver who also played today. Uh, should be fun. I don’t know that it’ll be this fun and the next one. It’s hard to beat tonight. We appreciate y’all hanging out. We hope you enjoyed. We’ll be back for tomorrow’s game. 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The Colorado Avalanche had four players with multi-goal nights including Makar, MacKinnon, Kelly, and Drury. The Oilers were never really competitive, especially at 5 on 5 and the Avs get a statement win.

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