Another Marty Party for the Colorado Avalanche in win over the Buffalo Sabres

Another Marty Party for the Colorado Avalanche in win over the Buffalo Sabres

Yo, how do these guys have so many like pretty good players on their team? Hey, Bernie’s got it. Listen to him. [Applause] [Music] Welcome in to the DNBR Avalanche postgame show live from the Toyota Lounge. The winners lounge powered by your Front Range Toyota dealerships and presented by Bet 365. ABS win over the Buffalo Savers 6 to3. We got Jike and Rudo here. We’re in the wagon officially. The ABS are a wagon. Five straight wins. Feels good. It’s more fun to win than lose. I always say true. This is a fact of life. I think especially when you give a I don’t know C performance and you cruise to a three- win goal. Cruz probably isn’t the right term, but pull out a three-goal win. Yeah, I you know, I think the ABS actually played pretty decently for stretches, but they definitely did sleepwalk through some parts of this game, too. Both things can be true. I struggle with how much to wait the ABS sleepwalking versus Buffalo just not being that. I mean, they created some scoring chances. We talked about it on the watch along. Yep. a team with 20% more finishing ability maybe makes the ABS sweat a little bit more than than Buffalo did in this one. But I mean playing devil’s advocate, you could go the other way and say they got three softy goals and probably shouldn’t have really been in this one in the first place. So yeah. Yeah, I think that is that is definitely part of it. And Buffalo has excuses tonight. They’re on the backtoback. Obviously did not get the goending they wanted out of the guy they started the game with. So, sure, they have plenty of reasons to write this off, but even for a game where you feel like there’s some things to improve, and again, we’ll get into that. The ABS never trailed in this game. That at worst it was tied. 3-3 was as close as this game got, and it ended 6-3. So, at every turn, the ABS did what they needed to do in this game, which isn’t necessarily their A+ game. Isn’t necessarily a a game that you would love to see them play this style against a better team. But tonight that was good enough. And I mean, you’re not going to have your agame for 82 games this season. Exactly. It’s the the great benefit of depth and the immense amount of talent that they have on this roster is their nights they can just kind of out talent you. Make a couple of plays and here we are. You only have to be better than those guys. Whoever you’re playing on that night, you don’t have to be the best. You have to be fast. I just got to be faster than you. Exactly. The Bear’s going to get the slow guy. Uh 60-cond rundown of this game. I feel like this one’s going to be long, but let’s do it. ABS are on the board first. Marty Nes with another first minute goal. Pretty crazy how consistent the ABS are at finding that lately. And they follow it up a bit later with a second goal. Arturi Lechin, the man to put that one in. It’s two nothing. Quick. The ABS do give one of those goals back to Bowen Byron. The Xav has to get his goal. And then Brock Nelson picks up it one to make it 3-1 for the ABS. It feels like the ABS are rolling. They then give another one back. Crazy five-goal first period. Jordan Greenway’s first of the season on Blackwood. You get into the second period, a pretty lazy, slow period. Not a whole lot of action. The one goal is a power play goal from the Buffalo Sabres. Tage Thompson is able to put one home from a bit of distance there to make it 3-3. Uh, I lied. There’s another goal in the second period. It was just that slow. Gavin Brinley puts in a goal. Beautiful shot from him for the ABS to make it 4-3. That’s the game winner. Third period doesn’t see a ton of action either until late when Marty Nius ices it and Gabe Landiskog gets the empty netter. Close enough. Um, yeah, I think the offense from the ABS is pretty unimpeachable in this game. You got six goals. You got it from everywhere. You maybe should have had seven goals if Gabe Landiskog could score a real goal that counts. I I know he got the empty netter, but I know I’m biased. I still think that one should have counted. I don’t think it should have counted. I get where you’re coming from that maybe it should have. Yeah, the guy pushes Drury in for sure. The reason I think it’s the correct call that it’s a no goal is Drury makes no effort to get out of the crease. He’s clearly standing in the blue. He’s clearly going to be in the way of any move from the goalie coming that direction anyway to try and make that save. So, I get the no goal call. I also totally get Jared Benner going for the challenge on it. Why not? Your PK’s been awesome. Exactly. You flip the coin. put a little faith in your guys and say, “Hey, we’re trying to get Landy some goals that count here.” And if it doesn’t go their way, he trusts the PK to kill it. The ABS did in fact kill that PK at the end of the day, too. So, I wish things would come a little bit easier for Landy, but you know, they’ve got us back. I Yeah, I mean, it’s not worth, you know, going over and over in a in a three-goal win. And he obviously gets it back and on the back end. Nice little bit of karma for a good dude. I’d love to see it. You do. I just feel like if it’s ambiguous, it is you’re It hurts more because it’s a coin is probably what it comes down to. But yeah, I mean, it’s it’s all good at the end of the day for the ABS. Maybe a slight annoyance if Landy already has a goal in this game. Does Nate just put that in the empty net and get a hat? Like I like it though. I like him being a good teammate there. You know, you’re I wish we just lived in a world where he didn’t have to do Yeah. Let’s get both. Poor Ko. Exactly. Exactly. But no, uh, not to be that way. Landy’s got to get empty netters to get his goals back. It is what it is. Um, but yeah, I I on a night where I think your only real issue was goalending for the first half of the game, I don’t know that there are really any other problems besides nitpicky stuff. Yeah. I mean, if you want to isolate like small plays here and there as you could in every single game that’s ever been played. Yeah. But yeah, I I didn’t feel like the the defense was atrocious by any means. Certainly wasn’t like Blackwood was was hung out to dry in this one. He’s just he’s got to be stronger and and I did feel like he settled into the game, made a couple of of nice saves in that third period, which was encouraging. Didn’t let things compound. Didn’t turn into a disastrous scenario. Yep. But really, I I feel like all three of those goals, at least two of them, probably should have been saves. Yeah, definitely the first two have to be saves from an NHL starter. And and I’m not saying, “Oh, Blackwood’s not a starter. He’s not.” No, I think Blackwood is going to be a starter, but he’s clearly not fully up to speed yet. Uh the first one, the initial shot has to get smothered. That cannot come out and and be a rebound. That just never should have been an opportunity in the first place. And the second one just can’t go in. That it goes directly right through it. Yeah, those two can’t go in. I don’t even love the third one. He does get a good piece of it with the blocker and is just not able to save it. But it’s on a penalty kill. It’s a Cage Thompson. Like I can live with the third one if the other two didn’t exist. But all three together don’t feel very good. And then he got it together. Like you said in the third period he made the saves he needed to. Like we talked about earlier, all he needed to do was be get better than the guy on the other end, and he was better than both of them ultimately. So, he got the job done. Doesn’t feel like he took a step forward, though. I’m curious what your thoughts are on what you do from here because I think to an extent, he’s got to play through it to work through some of this. He’s just going to need the live game reps. You also don’t want to overdo it right off the bat and potentially have an injury set back. But trying to balance the physical recovery process of getting back into the flow of being a a starting goalie night to also like wanting him to be able to work through what I would assume are probably not confidence issues at this point, but I I can’t imagine he’s feeling stellar after this showing. Yeah. Yeah, I think he gets to feel a little better about it at the end of the game. Finished helps and you win by three in the end. I definitely don’t think he’s out here saying I played my best game or even close to it by any stretch. So, would you start him this weekend? I would in part because it’s the New York Islanders. The It feels like the perfect time to try and work through some of this. Exactly. The ABS are in a good part of their schedule where you have some weaker teams that that Islanders game you have then you have three days off after that. So plenty of rest time for Blackwood if that’s the concern. You get the Rangers who’ve actually been a pretty decent team on the road. If you want to go with Wedgewood there, fine. I’m not going to be picky. And then you have a backtoback that next weekend of Nashville and Chicago. You’re definitely playing in one of those games. Pick your poison there. I guess Chicago has been the better team if you’re if you want to protect them and you can give them Nashville instead. I mean, ideally at some point you’re not thinking about it through that lens anymore of we’re trying to protect our starting goalender, but there is going to be some of that probably through the rest of the month, I would say. Yeah, he should be there by his own by then, but the rest of November for sure. You’re you’re probably picking your spots a little bit, but there are teams on the schedule that you shouldn’t be overthinking it. Just give Blackwood the start. Um, it’s hard because we don’t have a ton of material to go on with Blackwood. This is only his third game, which I think is enough hockey to say, “Hey, he probably shouldn’t be rusty anymore.” And I don’t really think he’s had a good performance to this point. His second game was probably his best one, and that’s a game where he gave up four goals. Now, the volume against was heavy. It was a It was a tough game against Vancouver, but compared to his first game, which was pretty rough around the edges against San Jose, they end up losing that one in overtime. Not really his fault, but the goals weren’t great. And then you watch him give up three goals that you don’t love tonight. I think it’s fair to have a little concern there at the moment. You let him play a couple more games and find out, is this a real concern or was that just a bad game? And I think that’s why you have to kind of take your take your medicine to some extent here and just Yeah, we’re probably going to suffer some lumps in a couple of these matchups. Yep. So long as there are, you know, signs and and some some level of consistency. I don’t think you panic too much at this point. No, I panic is at zero. Just disappointing that it was a bit of a rough game for him. Um, and the ABS are in a spot where, yeah, again, at a certain point, your starter needs to be your starter, but if the ABS feel like, oh, we have to win this game, you can play Wedgewood and feel fine about it. It’s the it’s the great thing about having depth, right? And I mean, that’s part of why you give him the extension to some some degree. He’s earned it. trustworthy enough to where hey if we have to go with him for an extended period of time as we have seen here we can compete he’ll do all right yeah you can the abs don’t need the wagon rolls on the wagon when you’re in a wagon you don’t need 960 goalending no longer wagon watch no longer wagon adjacent in the wagon in the wagon let’s go the wagon is a rolling I got like those Hot Wheels wheels on this thing too this wagon goes fast shiny a little bit of action. Yeah, let’s go. Where I need my uh my Hot Wheels booster and watch him take off over the sun sunset. I don’t know. Um but but no, there’s really even for a boring game, right, there were large stretches of this game where there wasn’t a lot of offense put up on the board. The ABS still had 32 scoring chances in the game, 13 high dangers. On the right side of both of those stories, Sabres only had seven high danger chances at five on five in this game. It’s not like the ABS were letting Blackwood get peppered back there or anything. They’re playing quality hockey on both ends of the ice. A lot of that comes down to the possession game, which the ABS dominated as they usually do. And you you look at this from a point of the ABS are the best team in the league. And while they didn’t play perfect hockey, while they did some things to make lives harder on themselves, this ultimately feels like a pretty comfortable win against a bad team. Yeah, it’s it’s it’s nitpicking outside of the the soft goals that you allowed. And even that has a lot of context that has to be included. Yeah, it’s I I think that’s something that gets overlooked in hockey a lot. There’s always a lot of context. That’s life, right? And like you have to draw a line somewhere between excuses and reality. Like not everything can be like, “Oh, well it was just a tough one. That’s too bad.” At some point the results are the results, right? But the results are great right now. So yeah, you can live with imperfect hockey from a goalender that’s getting warmed back up. You can live with uh maybe some bad penalties that the ABS took in this game that you didn’t love. Looking at you, Nathan McKinnon. uh those things are fine because you’re doing the right things everywhere else to get away with or make up for or whatever you want to call it in those regards. And and frankly, the way the ABS are playing offense right now is just you’re going to score a lot of goals on anybody. They’re unflapable, too. The response from this team has been really I mean, the fact that you have one regulation loss is a testament to that. Yep. But they don’t they don’t let things spiral very often. And even when they do, they still seemingly find ways to to climb out of it and at the very least drag a point out of it. Yeah. It’s like at some point you would like obviously if if you were coming back having to have all these crazy Denver Broncos fourth quarter comebacks week after week, you’re going to question the sustainability, but it’s not that like it Yeah. I I I think most of what the ABS are doing is sustainable. The one thing that I would question on process with the ABS is, and this is a pattern we’ve started to see a lot, the ABS are scoring first a lot, which is great. Love that they’re putting in that early work in the first period to put themselves in the driver’s seat, but they’re also giving back a lot of that in the first period. Yeah, we haven’t seen that. Like, you scored Nes scores 52 seconds in or whatever it is, I believe, first player in franchise history to score a minute into three different games in the same season. That’s crazy. We’re not even at Thanksgiving yet, but we haven’t really seen a lot of games where it’s they do that and then they get another and then you look up at the end of the first and it’s like a three four zero. Yeah. And the few times they have, they’ve actually let the team come back into it. But the only one that that that didn’t happen was Edmonton. Yeah. But it would be nice to see them really step on a team’s throat at some point here. And this is absolutely like in my ivory tower living the We’re the best life. We are we’re potentially pulling a muscle with how much we’re reaching here. Like this this is the stretch of all stretches for sure. But it like it is a fair point that you score three goals in the first period and you only lead by one. You don’t love to be in that spot. You would like to lead by three. And they’ve been in that spot pretty frequently. Pretty pretty consistently. Feels like they dominate the second or the the third especially. Even with the early goals, the first period is still by far the AB’s worst period of the three this season. So, I don’t know that there’s anything to really work on there. Again, a couple of soft goals. What do you really do to fix that? Just make the saves. But something to keep track of that has been a little bit of a pattern for the ABS. Something to keep an eye on. Something to keep an eye on with the holiday season coming up. The incredible deals at Dick Sporting Goods. Stop by your local Dick Sporting Goods for the hottest apparel and footwear from top brands like Nike, Adidas Originals, Hoka, DNVR, and more. Plus, score the latest equipment for baseball, football, soccer, basketball, golf, hockey. You name it, they’ve got it. Grab your tailgating essentials. If you find a lower price, Dix will match it with their best price guarantee. Get your gear fast with free curbside pickup at your nearest store or easy shipping from dicks.com. Because every season starts at dicks. 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I have another stat on them that we’ll get to in a little bit. But let’s continue on with our three stars here. Star number two and I think the man that is the talk of the Absosphere right now, Gavin Brinley goal and an assist tonight, including the game winner. The guy can go. He can go. Absolutely can go. I’m just mad at myself cuz we were talking about it before the game. Like what would Gavin Brinley be to pick up a point? They didn’t offer it. Plus 450 score a goal. I saw somebody in the chat saying they made some good catch. Some nice money on it. Way to go. Good eye. I look unreal good from Gavin Brinley getting shift with a second line, jumping up in the lineup and and helping fill in for Valachkin. Deserves all the credit in the world. It’s so easy to forget when guys play this good. That was Gavin Brinley’s 18th ever NHL game. He does not look like a rookie out there. He looks like a guy who’s done this a million times. His confidence and you can see he trusts his reads. Yep. There’s no hesitancy. He’s not afraid to jump up into the play tonight. Obviously, he rips home just a a gorgeous goal, a sniper, and they needed it, too. A nice response for sure. But to see him consistently rise to the occasion, I think has been so exciting because as you mentioned, he’s played in 18 games. In theory, we’re asking a lot. We can only go up from here, right? Like you hope. I mean, look, I said I think he’s more of a middle six guy. Jared Bedner’s called him a top six guy. Tonight, he looked more like a top six guy than a middle six guy. That’s why they pay him the big bucks, so he can look sharp in those all black suits. cost more than my car probably. I do think it’s worth noting and I’m not trying to be a Debbie Downer here. I just don’t want to oversell the situation. Boo. [Laughter] Brinley did pick up two points tonight. Earned even more opportunity when you actually look at the time on ice for that second line. Brock Nelson played 17-10. A good amount of that is he also PKs. The ABS had a handful of PKs in this game. Victor Olison played 1334 and then Gavin Beernley played 1302. So while he is shifting with the second line, he’s not taking every shift with the second line. They are doing that by committee to a certain extent. Yeah. And that makes sense. I mean it might be a little bit overwhelming to jump the kid from 9 minutes a game to 22. Yeah, it probably wouldn’t be setting him up for success would be my non-hockey expert. A middle ground there. But if you are, if you’re genuinely committing to him being the full-time second liner, you’d like to see that number be more like 16, 17, 18 in that range. Uh, and maybe we get that. I was going to say maybe they build up to it. Yeah, exactly. Uh, but worth noting when you’re mad that Brinley’s not playing a billion minutes on Sunday night, it’s because they are still solving that spot with multiple players. I I know it’s not like a quantifiable thing or I guess you could just look at the the point production in the games that he’s played in, but there’s something to be said about a guy who when his number is called just seems to deliver repeatedly. Give you a chance on the fourth line. Deliver. All right, let’s see what you look like with this group. Delivers again. We’re going to jump you up with some second line minutes. Yeah. Uh, an interesting point in the Toyota chat from Legacy here who says, “Last year, Brinley could barely produce in the AHL to looking this good in the NHL.” Uh, shout out to homie Dario in Denver over on Twitter. He was tweeting about this. There’s a very real thing with certain players where the NHL is a significantly more structured league than the AHL. It’s pretty normal for a minor league to be less structured, but some players thrive in the chaos of an AHL style league. And some players thrive in that structure where players are where they’re supposed to be, where everyone’s hitting their marks, where everything looks like it’s supposed to. Gavin Brinley reads and makes decisions off of that and plays perfectly within a system that actually functions how it’s supposed to. And that’s genuinely why he looks like a better player in the NHL than in the AHL. I’ve never thought about that, but it makes total sense just from the very limited I’ve been to like six or seven Colorado Eagles games ever, but watching the Eagles feels like watching pickup basketball versus like the NBA. It’s like, yeah, you see some guys make some interesting plays here and there, but it’s it’s kind of just chaos. It’s I don’t know football, so the analogy I’m about to make might not make any sense at all, but imagine that you’re wide receiver three and you’re on the backside of every play and your quarterback sucks and just never looks through the back side of his reads. Eventually, it’s going to be tough to keep running those routes, right? But you put a wide receiver three with somebody who can do it, a quarterback who can actually read the field and all of a sudden every time you’re open, he’s hitting you. That’s Gavin Brinley in the NHL, man. And that guy looks a lot better all of a sudden. Yeah, it’s crazy how that works. Uh, all right. Star number one. I mean, he had four points tonight. Come on. The Marty party roaring strong. Ridiculously good. 12 goals on the season now. In the I I’m not 100% sure. I might be in the top five in scoring in the NHL with the four points tonight, but top 10 anyway. It he’s been everything you could have asked for, right? We are barely a month into the season and Chris McFarland has made three contract extensions that all look amazing like weeks after he’s made them or days in the case of Brinley and Wedgewood. CMAX in his bag right now. I’m saying I’m saying he knows it too. And uh yeah, it’s it’s always good when a guy like Marty Nes makes you look like a genius with nights like tonight. How big of a flex does he get to do right now? Because the amount of and obviously whenever a trade of of written in status is going to go down, you’re going to get a lot of dinguses out there who are given a lot of hot takes and a lot of commentary with no context, no no no real understanding of of what the situation was. And we saw plenty of that in the radio sphere and digital sphere and everything that goes with it as always. Yeah. But I mean the amount of people that were calling for his job Yep. around New Year’s last year to what he’s been able to do. I mean like the the Brinley deal alone would have been a win. Yep. And they’ve they’ve been able to completely overhaul the goalending position. You replace Mo. You solve the 2C. You bring in Brinley and he’s been a hit. Yeah. It’s just been cool. There’s so much good work there. And obviously the most important piece of those is Marty. They committed to him long term. They gave him the type of money where he has to be great in this league. And guess what? He’s been great. Even on the nights where he’s not been his best, he finds ways to points. He finds ways to be effective. He can play well off of a Nathan McKinnon. Or when it’s not going, he knows how to move to the right positions. And Arturi Lechin can take in that second guy role. And then every fourth night, he’s the best player on the team. Like it’s that is the guy you want. That is the guy the ABS need out of Marty Nous. And he is proving himself and the Colorado Avalanche right time and time again this season. Proving me right too. Wrote a in the newsletter a little pat on the back. Subscribe every day. Go get it. I said at the beginning of the year I felt like he had only scratched the surface and that he really felt like a natural fit. I liked him to score 100 points this year. Now, that doesn’t even feel like with every Yeah, of course he’s going to I mean, I’m not jumping the gun on a 100, but 100’s a lot of 90 should be pretty in the bag. Yeah, I’m sticking with it. My man’s going triple digits. You may well be right. I mean, if he’s going to have four-point nights like this, that 50 goal numbers well on the table, too. And and I think that’s the big key here is goalc scoring ability in Colorado. We’ve talked over the last couple of years that maybe at times the ABS need finishers. If Marty’s turning into a finisher, McKinnon has finished great this year. You’re finally starting to get finishing from guys like Brock Nelson tonight. Uh obviously Olivesson has a great shot. The finishing is there for Colorado this year in a way that it feels better. The American sniper Gavin Brinley himself. Well, I don’t know how many more of those Brinley has in the bag, but if you can shoot like that, okay, maybe he is a top six guy. That was I think part of it, too, is they had a perfect camera angle on it that really really like we are peak right porn angle. Like, I mean, it was it was they nailed it. But they did. It was it was the money shot, man. It was it was cool to see. And that’s the game-winning goal. I know we already talked about him as second star, but it’s awesome to see a guy earn it every step of the way. And that is what Brinley has done this year. Every time they’ve given him more, he’s taken it by the horns and produced and found a way to make the right play and stepped up in a way that the Colorado Avalanche, I don’t even know that they necessarily need him to because the ABS have the luxury of depth this year, but the fact that he is stepping up in that way makes the ABS feel like a juggernaut. I mean, when you’re getting goals like that from rookies in their 18th game, guys that were supposed to be potential depth additions, best case they stick around on the roster and instead he’s he’s out here six points in six games like pretty good. They’re just they just keep coming at you in waves, man. The the depth of this team is relentless. And again, I just keep coming back to what a phenomenal job that McFarland and and company were able to do with this roster. And it’s it’s not easy to do when you are somewhat not hamstrung because having two of the five best players in the world is an incredible luxury. It’s nice, but it is a financial obstacle that you have to work around. Yep. It you have to build a team. You can’t Yep. Exactly. It you have to make all facets of your team at minimum function. And right now the ABS are getting a good lot of good good bit more than function out of the most parts of their lineup. So it looks really really good. Uh I did want to get quickly to are filling the stats sheet. I’m calling I know it’s checking the ads are filling the stat sheet right now. Come on. They’re they’re doing too much to be checking it. They’re filling it on this one. I think the interesting stat of the night. Yeah, the goals are great. All of that. I’m a nerd. I look at the nerdy stuff. Colorado Avalanche defense with Sam Gerard back in the lineup. Not a single defenseman with less than 15 minutes of ice time. They’re spreading it around in a way that they just weren’t beforehand. And and you look at this. Yeah, Macar played a ton at 25 minutes. Taes played a good amount at 22, but exactly what we talked about with Brent Burns in the pregame. Brent Burns barely touches the 18minute mark. Josh Manson just under 18. Gerard just under 17, and Molinsky 1530. This is it’s about where you’d want it. pretty much perfect division of jobs for the AB6 defenders. I don’t know how much better it could genuinely get. Maybe a little more for Sammy G, a little less for the older guys, or is that about how you’d want it? Um, I I think that’s actually flex time, right? Like if one of those guys is going, give them the time. You can you can kick someone up to three minutes if they’re feeling it tonight. Yeah, exactly. is a little bit of a weird game at times too because the ABS did have a decent amount of penalty kill time that you know skews those numbers a little bit maybe uh they also had two really good power plays that Macar played pretty much all of so there’s some extra time there that maybe you could find for someone else but I compared to playing a Slovia nine minutes a night or whatever it is the distribution is much much better good spot it seems in a really good spot it does I I have no complaints. I know. Uh something else that is in a good spot right now are my bets. You are on a roll right now. I’ve been hitting a lot. I called the Brock Nelson goal tonight. We got that one. Uh did not get the shut out. Unfortunately, you can’t hit them all, but tough to get a shut out when you give up three softies. Yeah. Not I’ve heard that math doesn’t add up. Not quite. Not quite the best math, but when you hit a when you hit a goal scorer like Brock Nelson at plus 250, you’re up money. It’s easy. Just uh just hit all your bets. Bet3365, an official partner of the Colorado Avalanche. You can sign up today with code DNVR365. Put $10 in your account. Bet $5 on anything and you’ll get $200 in bonus bets, which you can use to bet on whatever you want. You bet on a hockey game, you even get their early payout offer. If you bet straight and a team gets up by three goals, you get paid out immediately. You don’t You would have won tonight either way. True. It wouldn’t have mattered. You were up three. It was good. And you know, if you get up three early, you get your money back sooner to place more bets. Just that easy. Uh, jump in with Bet365. 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Let’s get to the courtesy call. Bailey, get in the wagon. The ABS are officially a wagon and you’re in this one. Thank you for joining us. Fun game or game that looked a little sleepy at times. Um, I don’t know if I would call especially the first half of this game sleepy by any means. Um, not that first period for sure. Not that first period at all. And you know, I feel like I’m so used to Buffalo games that are way out of control and that’s what this first period felt like to me. and in in like not a horrible way, but not a great way either, I guess. Um, just seemed like goals were coming from everywhere. And like I I want to give my props to the second line, a second line that’s been, you know, with with some of the underlying numbers has already looked okay. But getting on the board tonight, seeing Gavin Brinley gel as well as he has, seeing Brock Nelson contribute yet again. It was that that was I think it was my favorite part of the game to watch. I I loved the way this team started jelling. They had some really dangerous chances I think through the entire 60. It it was a really fun game to watch. An absolute blast. And And to your second line shout out as a line, second line was your best possession line in this game. Nelson and Brinley over 60%. Cory4 and Ross Colton right there at 60% as well. The ABS middle six is like right on the brink of becoming an unstoppable weapon for the Colorado Avalanche. It feels like between the quality of play you get from your third line every night and this second line starting to turn it on. Obviously missing the Chushkin, but if you get that play out of Colton and Nelson like you saw today, I I don’t know how you defend. I seeing what they did today, you know, we we’ve talked consistently about chemistry and guys, you know, trying to find different ways to gel. And yes, again, while underlying numbers have looked really good for this second line, being able to see that produce in a way in the way that it did tonight just makes me feel so much better about what is in store for a line like this. it. I’m really upset because, you know, Natushkin has been performing well, but to see them get rewarded right off the bat with a, you know, somewhat new configuration, it makes me really excited for what is down the road. Uh, seeing Colton, you know, we don’t see that very often. Colton making those little smart plays and space, having that kind of vision to find Nelson going up the middle, I I thought that was really smart from Ross Colton. And if that’s what he’s holding in his bag of tricks, color me intrigued. Yeah. I didn’t even think it was intentional at first watching it live and then you see it slowed down. The the touch to be able to deliver that on the goal was it. It’s such a good reactionary smart play from Ross Colton. something that I I think we don’t always see just because of Colton’s role in other areas, but it’s a really underrated part of his game being able to move in spa in limited space the way that he does. I it’s it it was really intriguing to see here tonight. Are you worried about McKenzie Blackwood’s performance tonight? I mean, we’ve talked a lot about it. Obviously, there’s probably going to be some lumps you have to suffer as he as he gets back into a habit here, but man, those were those were some softies that he let through tonight. Yeah, it’s it’s something you worry about for sure a little bit at least. But there’s also something to remember and saying while he does like he said in his presser tonight, he feels 100%. He feels like his body physically, mentally is exactly where it needs to be. He just needs the minutes to get there. And that I think that’s all that he’s missing. I would have been completely shocked if it had been a situation where he comes in and blows everybody’s minds. This is a goalender with a little bit of rust who’s coming off of, you know, maybe a more difficult summer than he planned for. And I I’m kind of on the side of let give it time like that. I think he’s exactly right. Getting those minutes is going to help him. The only thing that worries me though is something that Bedar did say in the postgame presser and saying he’s not afraid to play the hot goalie right now. And right that now that goalie is not Mackenzie Blackwood. Right now that goalender is Scott Wedgewood. And right now he’s earning it. And he’s going to play he mentioned today that he is going to play the rested goalie in Sunday’s game which happens to be Wedgewood. Um, and that that’s just kind of how it’s going to roll. Or at least that’s what it sounded like to me. It sounds like he’s playing the rest of Goender. He’s going to play the goalender that’s giving him the best chance to win. And right now with, you know, seeing some wishy-washy play from McKenzie Blackwood. I I think there’s still some strides to be taken to get exactly where he wants to be in his game. And while he’s taking those strides, there is no harm in playing a hot goalender like Scott Wedgewood. You’re working through some stuff with Blackwood. You get honestly A1 play for most of the night at five on five. Can we Can we give the power play credit tonight? Cuz let’s be honest, two of those power plays looked great. They did everything right but score. But it’s also game 18 and you didn’t score on it. I’m not too worried about it tonight just because of how dangerous it looked. Like when you when you talk about maybe the game slowing it down, slowing down a little bit in the third, I I think they could have they had so many more chances than maybe you’re seeing on the score sheet or in some of those high danger chances that might show up. They had some really good looks on the power play and as you said, all they did was not score. Yeah. Um I I really like the movement and as long as they keep playing like that, I I mean the chances just didn’t kind of go in their favor tonight. As long as they keep playing that way, they’re they’re going to go in. I I am not worried about that at all with tonight. What was the reaction in the arena like when Landisk got the empty netter? It was kind of like a breath of relief. I don’t know what voodoo doll somebody is holding on to, but it’s it’s been a rough go at it for Landy. and hearing those landy chants kind of break out and you know everybody’s on his side, it it seems to be a good boost not just for him, not just for the community watching him, but for the team as well. It’s it it was electric watch watching that kind of go in for him and it he he seemed really excited about it too. Rudo and I were split. Did you feel like that first one should have been a good goal? [Music] I hate to be a Bednar echo, but I’m kind of in the same boat as Bednar was where no matter how that gets called, it it’s a 50/50 puck at that point. Um, I thought he made a really good point in saying that if if it was called a good goal on the ice and Buffalo challenged it, I’m kind of in the boat that maybe it stands like that. That’s just kind of the way that the play happened. I I don’t know. The the more I look at it and the more I I kind of sit on it. Yes, it’s a 50-50 puck and I I think you know it it was going to go either way. Just kind of knowing how officiating goes. Drury gets pushed in. Yeah, that’s that’s He does. That’s what I thought. I don’t know. I he’s camping around the paint too much probably. But and that’s that’s where I think maybe the the decision from the refs came from is how much time is there to reset? How much ability does Drury have to kind of push back and exit the crease and get out of uh Lucin’s way and and that that’s where a lot of those intricacies come into play. And again, 50-50 play 50-50 call unfortunately. Yeah. They flip a coin for every goalie interference in the league. That’s the way it goes. Uh is there a definition at this point? Do we do we have that update in the rules? You just you hold a you hold a cigarette up actually and depending on which way the smoke is going. That’s that’s how we call it. Perfect. Perfect for coin flip. Okay. Let the dart decide. Uh I see. Be hilarious. Last one for me. Sam Gerard back in the lineup tonight. Picks up an assist. probably should have had a goal that he rings off the post on the yawn and cage. What’ you think of him tonight? You know, I thought for his first game back, he looked really good. I thought he was moving well. Again, like you said, had some really good looks, got involved in plays, did exactly what we expect him to do as a puck moving defenseman. I I don’t have many complaints given that it is his first game back. I I really liked what I saw from him tonight so far being back. Agreed. Final thoughts? No, it’s th this was a a fun game. This was a game that the Avalanche should have won and they did against a tired Buffalo team. Um I I’m excited for them to from what I I saw on the schedule, it looks like they’re going to get a rest day tomorrow, get back to practice on Saturday, and then get another crack at it on Sunday. I don’t know that there’s anything bad to say about this team right now. Bailey, thank you for joining us. This was the courtesy call. We appreciate it. I think we have some winner shots on deck that we make Bailey Bailey jealous again with, but have fun with those guys. I might do my own when I get home. There we go. Now we’re talking. We I will see you tomorrow for our off day show, so don’t drink too much. Absolutely. Getting some good sleep tonight, guys. I promise. Have a great night. You, too. You um Yeah, abs are really good. That really is the takeaway from this game for me. Maybe they did play their B minus game or or whatever you want to call it and it’s still a pretty easy win. Yeah, I mean I I think it was based on their standard which is an important again we coming back to context based on their standard it’s probably a C. It’s the bare minimum but the bare minimum for the Colorado Avalanche is a lot better than what most teams winning by three apparently. Yeah. I mean, it’s it’s all relative, but Yeah. But no, Baileyy’s right. That’s a that’s a tired Buffalo team. That’s a team that anything less than a win tonight would have been pretty disappointing. But once you win, a win is a win. Winner’s a win. Dr. Dubs, baby. Dr. Dubs. Cheers, chat. Thank you so much for 100 likes. We appreciate it. Take your medicine. That was a full one. Yeah, they really uh they really loaded those ones up. Uh I wanted to get back to this too though. We talked about the second line which was great tonight. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Val Nushkin gets hurt and Brock Nelson and Ross Colton are the ones to step up on that line. The Brin the Brinley thing, a little bit of serendipity. Things happen in a certain way and it works out great. But getting one of the better games we’ve seen from Colton and Nelson means the ABS understand the score here. They know what they’re after and a guy going down means his linemates need to pick up the slack and get the job done and they did. It’s one of the benefits of having veterans like that to lean on. Yep. That that is A1 Brock Nelson what he should be for this hockey team. And great to see him finish. I did think he was shooting the puck a bit more. Although this is I think true of multiple labs. Nathan McKinnon was shooting the puck a ton tonight. I I do think it’s starting to get through to Colorado that they’re at their best when they’re a shooting hockey team. You don’t have to be that cute all the time. Yep. Yeah. Every now and then you’re going to get the perfect sequence of passes that sets up the awesomely executed highlight goal. Most goals are gritty, grinded out, right place at the right time, right bounce in the right place. Yep. Put the puck on net. Good things happen. It’s everyone likes to make hockey complicated. Look, I’m an advanced dance believer. I love my numbers and get into all that. Sometimes just go win puck battles, man. It’s not that hard. That’s the beauty of sports, though, right? It’s as intricate as you want to make it out to be. Like, at at its core, I’m trying to score. You’re trying to stop me. Let’s see what happens. And the answer tonight was no one could stop the ABS when they wanted to score. So, six is a good I guess it’s five with a real goalie in that. Although and one goal he got pulled after two say two goals against. So not not the best goalending from Buffalo. Fair to say that it goes both ways on that front. Look, Colorado is in a pretty great spot when you look at tonight’s usage. even the fourth line that we’re so used to seeing get excuse me get limited minutes uh get their time cut and this game was close was a one-goal game for a decent portion of it obviously the ABS led early and led late by a good number but Taylor Macar ended up seven minutes tonight Zakar Bardikov ended up almost nine minutes tonight there is a little bit more usage getting activated there I call it what you want trust from Bednar or just that the ABS are on a home stand and are trying to spread the minutes. I I don’t really care the reason. It does feel like outside of Blackwood a lot of this ABS team is starting to hit their stride. Yeah, without a doubt. I mean, you see what what Brinley’s doing. It feels like Nelson’s coming on strong. Yep. We talked about Burns a little bit pregame. Feels like he’s kind of figured out his role on this team, how to how to skate with the guys. Yep. the direction of this team is is very encourage encouraging and the uh the vibes are immaculate as we say here at DNVR and I think that’s a it’s an interesting change because through the early portions of this season there was a lot of it’s still early but through the first call it 12 games of the season there was a lot of yeah Colorado’s the top team in the NHL but yeah they’ve got a bunch of overtime losses are they really this good what what is this. What is that? And now five in a row. Five in a row, which you know, eight and nine, I think. They’re not going to win every game through the rest of the season, but I think there has cemented an underlying play of, oh no, the ABS actually are really, really good. They deserve all of these points. That team that everybody thought was good and then proved they’re good and then for some reason some doubted. Yeah, it’s uh it turns out they were in fact good. So you you take a look at the standings. Dallas is four points back, but the ABS have more wins than them. That’s not even like an overtime points cheating thing. And no one else in the Central is really in the ballpark. The Jets are in third right now with 20 points. So the ABS have already sprung a 9-point lead on the third place team in the Central. They’ve set themselves up really nicely to be able to withstand the inevitable stretch of downtime that’ll come in an 82 game season. There’s always some. Hopefully they limit that when it does come. And certainly right now you’re not thinking about that. You’re thinking about how the ABS could go 10 in a row here. And and we mentioned it a little bit in the Blackwood conversation. Tiff, I don’t know if we have the next 10 graphic or not. No. All right. We don’t need it necessarily. When you look at the ABS schedule here, Sunday, New York Islanders, definitely a beatable team, winnable game. Three days off, so the ABS are fully rested after that. New York Rangers. Rangers have been good on the road, but definitely a beatable team. Then you have a back-to-back that is Nashville and Chicago. Nashville pretty much a must-win. They’re one of the worst teams in the league. Chicago’s been decent this year, but absolutely a beatable team. And then you round out the rest of November with the game against San Jose, which is beatable, and the ABS are going to be wanting revenge. And then you get Minnesota. They’ve been pretty bad to start this year to be honest. And then you end the month with Montreal, which is a legit team, although they just got blown out 7 nothing tonight by Dallas. Uh they’ve been good this year in their own building, too. Yeah. In Quebec, tough tough one for Montreal. You’re If the ABS play to their ability, you could be talking about a team on a 10-ame win streak a week or two from now. They have to go and do it. You know, there’s going to be some trap games in there. I’m not counting my chickens before they hatch here, but the ABS are positioned in a pretty good spot in their schedule to be as good as they’ve been. 10game winning streak. Just the concept of it is I know it happens. It’s not that out there, but I mean it’s like 10% of your season. It’s a lot. That’s a lot of wins to go without losing. Uh yeah, I I don’t think the ABS had I think they had like an eight or nine game stretch. They were like eight n, but they didn’t have a 10 gamer last year. They’ve had a few over the years, but it’s it’s fun to watch. Everything about Colorado hockey is just fun to watch right now. And I think part of the reason that it is sustainable is that we aren’t sitting here watching the ABS get away with a whole lot. Feels like the mistakes come back to haunt them a lot. Exactly. They’re It feels like their mistakes get punished fairly, if not more than fairly. And they still overcome those obstacles. They still I mean forget overcoming them again. You got pretty poor goalending tonight and you were never down in this hockey game. You did not have to come back and one by three and one by three. It’s that’s what feels routine for Colorado is not routine for most teams. Most teams have to deal with being down a goal in most games. Most teams have to deal with probably not scoring first all that often. you’re not going to be a juggernaut at five on five and maybe you have to survive on the power play for some nights with the ABS have pretty much I guess the New Jersey game like are they really surviving on that or is just are they scoring from everywhere but the ABS are just being the best team on the ice pretty much every single night since that Boston game honestly you could even argue they were the best team in that Boston game and they’re not perfect but they are trending better almost every single I think the consistency from this squad is is definitely the most encouraging element of it all. It’s they’re not power play merchants as you know the the kids love to say online. Shout out Nick Rousetti our our guy. Yeah, he he does. He loves that one. Yeah. Uh but I I I just think the depth of this team makes them so hard to deal with. And I know we’re getting a little bit repetitive of saying how excellent this team is. Feels repetitive in that way. To be this far into the season and not have lost a regul a regulation game to this point, it’s just it’s pretty surreal. It is. It I like you can’t I I’ve had to remind myself of that a couple of times. Yeah. And I’m a big, you know, I’m well-rounded in my sports fandom. I I write about basketball and football a lot. I’m obviously very ingrained in in the AB side of things now, but with what we’re getting right now as Denver sports fans, the Broncos probably playing a little bit above their heads, that’s whatever. But I mean, Nathan McKinnon and Kale Mar on a nightly basis. You got Joic obviously on the Nuggets side of things. Like I don’t remember a time in my lifetime where it’s been this consistently fun to just tune into Denver sports night after night genuinely and be treated to genuine like it’s I I couldn’t ask for a whole lot more than what I’m getting right now in this experience. I think there’s a fun little stat here for Colorado and this is cheating a little bit because you know a nine-goal game is included in the last four games. So there’s a lot of points picked up there but outside of Macar who was just called up tonight because of the Nushkin injury every single Colorado Avalanche player has a point in the last four games. at least one point. Every single one. Every single one. That’s wild. That is the entire team scoring and producing for you. That doesn’t happen very often. That’s not how it’s supposed to work. That’s how you want it to work. And then you cap that off within this four game stretch. Nathan McKinnon has 13 points. Where’s the problem? Every part of the abs is doing exactly what you want it to outside of maybe the goalending and the goalending won you the game at the end of the day. So, they’re doing their job, too. I mean, I guess if we’re going back to stretching, yeah, you’d like the power play to score with more consistency, but the process was solid tonight. Yeah, I I I this is the best the ABS power play has probably looked in two weeks, including scored on. Yeah, like the power play probably deserved a goal tonight and they didn’t get it and it didn’t matter because they were just that good at five on five. They even lost the special teams battle which the Ess have not done a lot of this year. They usually at least go even on special teams. There are some, look, if I’m being 100% honest, all of the ABS good play is probably covering up some issues that they do still need to fix that we’re glossing over to some extent because that’s you get the benefit of the doubt when you’re winning and playing like the ABS are right now. But at the same time, I don’t think there are really any glaring issues at at this point. Not even the power play, which was scored a couple times and again looked really good tonight. Do you want it to be better? Yes. But is it like gamebreakingly bad? No. We’re at the stage where you’ve gotta do the advanced zoom. Yeah. You’re five or six times a lot to get that like number there. This is actually bad. Yeah. Like it’s again, you know, I was joking earlier, but you’re borderline pulling a hammy trying to stretch for things to complain about with this team. And you know, it’s an easy team. You’re not you’re not going to get away with some stuff against better teams, but okay. Well, that’s the beauty of an 82 game schedule. The ABS also just beat some pretty good teams. The Tampa team statistically speaking, was on par with them in the Western standings the other night. So, there’s just not a lot of rebuttals that you can have for the Avalanche right now beyond they should be the favorites. And it’s November. Being the favorites in November doesn’t mean a whole lot, but being here is a whole lot better than having to climb out of a hole. I just think you’re going to reap the rewards of that come this spring because I do think that the ABS played really high intense minutes and really trying to dig themselves out of the hole that they were obviously the goalending situation was kind of what caused it. It wasn’t like they were a trash team or anything like that, but they put themselves in a peculiar position and they had to work really hard to dig themselves out of that spot. The the slack that they are establishing for themselves for the back half of the season right now is is awesome. And that’s not to say that I want to see them take their foot off the gas or anything like that. Like, [ __ ] it. Go win 120 120 points. Like, go crazy. But I I just think that they’ve really put themselves in an opportunistic position here. Agree. And with their home ice advantage, how good they are. I don’t know, man. I just I don’t think this is the place you’re going to want to have to come, you know, February, April. Team has the juice, man. They’ve got it. Tiff has something to say. Going off of that completely, I think like building up these points now, whether it’s the overtime points, all these wins, like we’re going to have to lose some games eventually for sure. And I think those are going to come after the Olympic break cuz a lot of ABS are going to be at the Olympics and they’re It’s a great point. They’re going to be tired. Establish yourself a little bit of leeway now knowing what’s coming. I will bet a lot of money the AS lose some games before the Olympic break. But whatever. For sure. For sure. Yeah. Whatever hater, but like I’m saying I think this is a really good cushion that they’re building for an eventual maybe little bit of a dip. The ABS know first hand exactly how much this mattered in 22. They were resting guys down the stretch and look how that worked out. So it it makes a difference. Uh we do have one super chat to get to here and then I think we’re about done. $2 from the shik who says, “Cheers LFG. Appreciate you, Shik.” Uh, I appreciate all of you in chat. A bunch of you out here. This one isn’t quite as late as our normal postgame show. An actual normal 7:00 start. So, you know, maybe I know I’m going to get home before tomorrow. Crazy. Well, that must be nice. It’s barely. It’ll be 11:58 a.m. But this team is fun, man. They are. It’s funny. I just I I’m kind of a a sappy guy. If you do actually read the newsletter, that’s one one thing I’m big on is staying in the moment, being able to appreciate what you are witnessing. And and most certainly the standard is very high here. The expectations for this franchise, for this team, this season, it’s about as high as you could have. Don’t get lost in the pursuit of a title, which most certainly this team is chasing one, but don’t lose sight of how fun it is to be a Colorado Avalanche fan right now and how consistent this team is from night to night because it’s not normal. I promise you, I write about a lot of bad teams a lot. It’s not a whole lot of fun. This team is fun. Yep. Enjoy it. Enjoy the process 100% enjoy the ride. I’ll leave it on that. I love that ending. We’re going to get out of here for tonight. We will be back tomorrow for an off day show. Come join me and Bailey probably talking a lot about Scott Wedgewood, but uh everything else going on with the ABS, too. So, we appreciate y’all. 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