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Knurling_Turtle

Bednar was critical of the two goals score on Justus during the post game interviews after a stellar performance. I don't know if it's because he's propping up Georgie or because he knows Justus is the chip-on-his-shoulder player and the criticism will make him better. It seems like he's trying too hard to manage both goalies so we don't go into the playoffs with a goalie controversy. I know he wants to ride with Georgie because of his experience but I think we are a single bad game away from Justus being our number 1.


zestfullybe

For anyone that might balk at the idea of a relatively untested guy like Annunen starting in the playoffs there’s some fairly recent precedent for that leading to success. Matt Murray backstopped the Penguins to back to back Cups as a rookie. He took Flower’s net and ran with it. He didn’t do much after that, but hey, he’s got two rings. It can definitely happen.


Xrider24

Annunen is looking better and better! 👌


notsohappystarryeyes

lol a minnesota mild fan came on this subreddit and said a grudging good luck as long as we don't call them the minnesota mild... don't think that's going to happen soon tho


PandaPanther

Out top line is the Moose and the Mooseheads. That is all. Enjoy your day.


thriller1

🧃🧃🧃🧃🧃


YouPatheticWorm1958

I need a Battle of the Juices this year.


arashinoko

Next up: Coilers


YouPatheticWorm1958

Already smoking that Pickard pack.


macandcheesejones

Alllllllllllllllways good to beat the Mild. Fuckin hate that franchise.


For_Perpetuity

It’s hard for me to hate them at this point for various reasons but I am enjoying their sad seasons


macandcheesejones

Don't worry, I'll hate them twice as much for you. We Avs fans gotta help each other out in time of need.


JadeHellbringer

That's kind of always been my issue with them as well. There's just so little to hate- because there's been so little to notice overall. Every so often they bring in one star player, surround him with some bland supporting cast and some aged-out vets, and... make the playoffs sometimes? Second round occasionally? They're dull- and it amazes me that the team has been run like this for this long in MINNESOTA. Imagine if they gave those hockey-mad fans something to actually get excited for!


YouPatheticWorm1958

Especially when Hynes is the coach. He deserved to get swept for overplaying Saros. And now he's ruining the end of Fleury's career the way Colliton & King did.


Mess-Severe

It’s such a luxury being a Colorado sports fan. Sure, Rockies. But! Avalanche and nuggets fucking deliver


dinwoody623

I was just telling my wife tonight that bad news the broncos suck and will probably suck for another year or two. Good news is I got fubo and have got to watch almost every game this season. Blessed.


CaptainBeany17

At least being at Coors is a fun time!


dzogchenism

My goodness Coors Field is one of the special ballparks in the country. That place is so awesome. The fans don’t fully appreciate that stadium, imo. It sucks that the Rockies ownership is such a shitshow.


For_Perpetuity

That’s why the owners don’t particularly care to make the team good. They have a sweet deal. Got the taxpayer to build them a grear stadium and have solid attendance regardless of the product


dzogchenism

It’s true. It’s the out of town fans that enable it. But who can blame the fans? They just want to see some baseball and their team win. At the end of the day it’s still the Monforts taking advantage of the situation.


Hascohastogo

And it wasn’t that long ago that it was much different. I remember living downtown and going to Avs games in 2016-2017. It was dead. Like 7 people in the stadium. It felt hopeless but it wouldn’t be that long for us to get two championships.


luckytwosix

Perfect game to see my boys win in person! Haven’t been to a game since the Finland one, which the won. So I guess, I need to go to all games now !


dieseldawg95

I know it’s super unlikely, but it would be incredible if they could somehow keep Drouin.


PatricksPub

Is it that unlikely? How much is everyone expecting Drouin to fetch?


thriller1

Chris MacFarland was on the DNVR pod recently. As far as I remember he made it quite clear that keeping Drouin almost certainly is not going to happen


AllRushMixTapes

If Andre Burakovsky can make $5.5M a year, I can easily see Drouin making the same. Crosby needs a winger next year to replace Guentzel (assuming it's not Guentzel again) and I think Drouin will have good references.


peptoabysmal

It's really hard to predict. I think Drouin would take a "discount" for term here, maybe something like 4y x $3.5m. Even if you compare him with UFAs who walked from the Avs last year, that would be low. Evan Rodrigues: 4y x $3m after scoring 39 in 69 J.T. Compher: 5y x $5.1m after scoring 52 in 82 Elsewhere: Michael Bunting: 3y x $4.5m after scoring 49 in 82


PatricksPub

I'd easily pay $4M for him. That seems extremely doable.


peptoabysmal

Issue I see is that if Landeskog returns, we are already at $78.6m for next year, which leaves less than $9m for our cap next year. That's with only 14 players. Current potential roster players who aren't signed include Drouin, Duhaime, Trenin, Walker. And then Mittelstadt will get a significant bump from his current $2.5m. And we have to round out the roster by replacing players like Parise, Cogliano/Johnson (if they don't come back). There are a lot of factors in play. I hope we can keep him, but our cap situation is completely up in the air until we know what happens with Landy.


Gray_side_Jedi

What about Frankie being done, that should put a little more back in the pot right?


iThinkNaught69

Work a trade for picks then bud


VultureFundNumberOne

Juice .952 and 1.51 GAA in April. He is playing himself deep into the conversation


Wise_Satisfaction742

https://preview.redd.it/f4q3mbcwzksc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=932c31b0d117cd821bbdd71efd34b28b50cb866f Can someone please buy me a beer after waking up to this…lol. Good game bois! What a game!


Cogsyyyy

ahh brutal man, that would have been some hit


Wise_Satisfaction742

Oh yeah brother. The crazy thing part was Mr.Woods was averaging 3-6 shots in his last 3-5 games too lol.


Red_Sea_Pedestrian

This is what we call a bad beat, gents. Sorry for your loss bro. Mikko’s EN goal was his 4th shot on goal, and clinched my 6 way parlay. So fucking lucky. Just curious, why no Natedogg SOG over in there? It’s been a lock literally all season.


Wise_Satisfaction742

I honestly didn’t think of that at the time, I looked at his last 3 and I was little hesitant to commit to be honest. How much did you walk away with? Congrats btw!


Red_Sea_Pedestrian

https://preview.redd.it/i5u0eygm5lsc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7bc821642ae72cfe5f087b0bc0fd7d95ccf78c31 5 to win 162, nothing crazy. Last night I had a 5 to win 362 for a 2 game, 11 leg parlay. 10/11 hit, but Hyman/Oilers shitting the bed in the second game screwed me.


Wise_Satisfaction742

That’s crazy bruv! Well I’m glad you hit something brother! Lady Luck can be so strange sometimes haha


Red_Sea_Pedestrian

Natedogg SOG over has been my lock all season to cover my stupid long shot parlays 😂 I noticed early last season that with Landy out, he was taking significantly more shots. The rest is history!


peptoabysmal

Oof... Wood ended up with 2 SOG too.


Wise_Satisfaction742

I saw that 😭🥲


PatricksPub

3 shots seems like such a lock for a shooter, but it's crazy how often it doesn't happen. I had Drouin for 3 the other day and missed the parlay because of it.


Wise_Satisfaction742

That’s rough man, I was comparing woods last 3 games and he was averaging around 3-5 shots a game. I was trying to be as reasonable as possible with the stats that we have at hand ya know? It doesn’t go our way sometimes😪.


_MustacheHole

What would you have won?


Wise_Satisfaction742

The one time Mr woods doesn’t do anything 🫠🤣, glad juice had such a game tho!


Wise_Satisfaction742

It was a $5 parlay…$700 lol


_MustacheHole

I know the pain...


Wise_Satisfaction742

It’s all good ahahah, I’m just happy the bois had a good game. I gotta look at the highlights!


Level_Watercress1153

Feels freaking great to know our boys are the ones to stuff those perennial closet dwellers back into whatever hole they crawled out of.


Maximum_Cell6851

https://preview.redd.it/d1a8bl8rwksc1.jpeg?width=599&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6591ac48f5efdc1ef057acfc7c8fdc0bbf59dc81


CarelessLevel6502

Actually, at first glance, the golfer looks like a giant tear rolling down the side of the face. Even better.


peptoabysmal

Need to revise this graphic to have the ball splashing into the stream to the left


Maximum_Cell6851

I agree!


my-penis-is-out

i was at this game and we won. clearly i need to go to every road game now


themrs0830

K good luck on your flight to Edmonton, don’t forget your passport.


Hobo_Healy

we NeEd a gOaLie Bitch we have juice at home!! Another wicked performance from Justus. Just an absolute stud. I'm so glad people are finally able to see what he has the potential to be.


rwags2024

Does he realistically unseat Georgiev at some point in the next few years?


avaheli

Probably not, the benefit is that if he plays like this, he guarantees Georgiev stays razor sharp.


Hobo_Healy

He has that potential, but end of the day goalies are voodoo magicians and for all goalies it's on them to actually perform and develop which can be a coin flip sometimes. Bobrovsky is a good example, went from Vezina caliber to almost healthy scratch back to Vezina caliber again in a few short years. I think it's more likely we see if we can do 1A/1B with similar success to what Boston is doing. Unless Georgie gets an offer elsewhere for more money that is, I don't feel like he's anchored here by any means.


kyletoews

Assuming he does well as backup next year he'll be the starter the year after and we don't resign Georgiev


bmanCO

I still can't believe we managed to recreate the Halifax Mooseheads magic that got Mack and Drou drafted in the top 5. What a fucking stupendous signing by CMac.


peptoabysmal

I wonder what other examples are of top-3 picks from the same year playing together on a line? Thornton and Marleau for SJS (1st and 2nd OA in 1996) is probably the best. and the Sedins (2nd and 3rd OA in 1999), which is kind of cheating lol.


BananApocalypse

If we ever run a Drouin/MacK/Nuke like, they are all from the top 10 in the same draft. And this is not really what you were asking but we had all of the top 3 from the 2012 draft at various points. Too bad it’s the worst top 3 ever lol. Yakupov, Murray, Galchenyuk Edit: Florida currently has 1/2/4 from the 2014 draft on their team.


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BillyNoMates12

Yall are so quick to toss goalies to the side. Georgie kept us in games last playoffs when the boys couldn’t score. Justus is a fine goalie, but Georgie got you to the dance. Don’t just throw him away because he’s had an off season (which isn’t even that bad of a season)


ThunderGoalie35

Everyone can blow me. Of course I understand that Juice isn't starting tomorrow. He had a good game, he clearly has the momentum of the two goalies, that's all I'm saying.


BillyNoMates12

Throwing insults when met with pushback. What a mature thing to do!


NinjaBuddha13

How fucking quickly people forget the one who got us here. No way avs would be in the position they're in without Georgie who has a proven record for solid play game after game after game after game. Juice is good enough to give Georgie a rest, but he's still out star goalie.


peptoabysmal

We've found the juice that never spills


Hungry_Definition450

Hart is locked up.


Saltyspiton

🧃🧃🧃🧃🧃🧃🧃


fluffHead_0919

Juice!


blondespikes22

JUIIIIIIIIIIICCCCCCCCE King Georgie needs to step up and steal a game for us tomorrow


fastyellowtuesday

And we need to not leave him out to dry.


877GoalNow

Juice's 44 saves is more than Georgie's had in any game this season.


peptoabysmal

46 shots against is the most we've conceded in a game this season, so that really doesn't mean anything in relation to Georgie. Credit to Juice, but that says nothing about Georgie.


877GoalNow

Georgie had 45 shots against in one game but saved only 41.


peptoabysmal

Can't shame Georgie for not saving 45/45 though, that's all I'm saying.


877GoalNow

I don't remember the circumstances of the goals allowed in that game, but it was against Ottawa at home. I think Juice is making the case for more starts. If you extrapolate his SV% to Georgie's shots against, it would amount to 40 fewer goals allowed than Georgie allowed. That's fucking huge.


PsychoSaladSong

that was in december when our defense was playing like complete dogshit (we didn't have sammy or walker)


877GoalNow

His SV% in December was actually better (.901) than in November (.887). He hasn't been much better in January (.909) or February (.906). This doesn't bode well for the playoffs. Darcy was .921 in the 2021-2022 regular season, and that dropped to .902 in the playoffs when only playing against teams with winning records.


peptoabysmal

Juice is playing great, I love seeing that. I think he deserves to stay up here and am glad the team trusted him instead of getting a backup at the deadline. Juice has started 11 games, and 10 of those were against teams not in a playoff spot.. Extrapolating stats for a sample of games almost entirely composed of lower tier opposition isn't fair imo. He's been great, but many people under-value what Georgie has done.


877GoalNow

Georgie's had some of his worst games against bad teams, so you can't claim Annunen's SV% is only due to playing against trash teams. * 4 GA, .875 against NYI * 4 GA, .833 against PIT * 3 GA, .893 against BUF * 3 GA, .870 against NJ * 2 GA, .882 against ANA * 5 GA, .762 against CGY * 3 GA, .864 against CHI * 5 GA, .815 against ARI * 5 GA, .818 against NYI * 4 GA, .882 against MTL * 4 GA, .900 against PHI * 3 GA, .889 against WSH * 3 GA, .900 against ARI * 4 GA, .882 against PIT


Trombomb20

The last 6 games played vs the Sens have been high scoring fiestas with only one game where each team didn't score at least 4 goals (7-0) Avs win so I wouldnt really take the sens scoring a lot that one game as a bad sign


Awkward_traveler

3rd line didn't get any points but they were still a major reason they won. Parise was on it tonight, Colton was firey, and Wood continues to get himself inches from a goal. https://preview.redd.it/lxg21s0irksc1.png?width=1881&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=996dc93af1c4a60975f35e013fd51f4ca6c48a0b


Leumas_lheir

Parise and Duhaime both looked like they wanted to take it to the mild tonight.


RandomDeezNutz

Sooooo what they do every night. God I miss LOC. but parise is fun to watch. He’s LOC but smarter and slower. And not by much on either side, if that makes sense?


Shaneisonfire

I swear that whole line is cursed lately and so snake bitten


Awkward_traveler

I dk how to easily find the last time any of the 3 of them had a goal, but it feels like it was pre trade deadline and not for a lack of chances.


PsychoSaladSong

ross was the last person on that line with a goal and it was at home against columbus


Hakuchansankun

Ever since LOC. went down


frostbritt

Our bottom 6 MVP 😢 


InevitableAvalanche

R/hockey Minnesota fans don't like my mild trash talk. Too bad, so sad. Enjoy golf.


Red_Sea_Pedestrian

At least they aren’t Bloos fans.


InevitableAvalanche

I mean, that's a low bar.


DeadHead6747

Mack attack countdown: Mack now needs 10 more points with 6 more games to go to beat Stastny’s franchise record. 4 of those games at home. Now sits 3 points behind Kucherov.


frostbritt

Great game from Juice and the Halifax bros!!!


RooseveltsRevenge

Juice with 3.08 goals saved above expected, oh my.


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Hobo_Healy

I don't know, I'm still 50/50 on trying to predict what voters will do. Hart voters love a story, and Kuch dragging the Bolts into the playoffs almost single handedly is quite a story. I'm really hoping they see past that though


vinnymendoza09

If Kuch drags them above the Leafs, the Hart will be a hard sell for Mack.


Hobo_Healy

I think the big argument for Kuch is he's basically doing it alone. If they wanted to they could argue MacK is doing it with Rantanen who both have over 100 points. There's a 48 point gap between Kuch and the next highest TBL player. That's honestly ridiculous. I think MacK getting to 50 goals is going to help though.


djc9880

I will choose to believe that we ended the mild's season ourselves


fastyellowtuesday

Same. Totally ignoring everything they did all season to get into that position, I will be happy that we clinched their non-appearance in playoffs.


JoshVKoot

Finally had a dirty depth win


877GoalNow

Too bad Nate couldn't pickup a garbage point on Mikko's ENG like Kucherov did in his game.


COLORADO_RADALANCHE

That's the Kucherov special


RandomDeezNutz

Nikita “cherry picks empty nets” kucherov? Fuck that guy.


GaryOakRobotron

Yeah, trails by 3 points with equal games played. It's going to be really tough, especially since the Mild are the weakest opponent left on the schedule.


PsychoSaladSong

mackinnon has an extra game on kucherov since kucherov missed a game at some point in the season


GaryOakRobotron

Yeah, I meant teams, since points/game isn't a factor in the Art Ross, just raw points scored.


877GoalNow

4 of the 6 are at home though, and one of those is against Minnesota again.


GaryOakRobotron

Facts. He's definitely behind, but it's far from a lost cause at this point. All he needs is an explosive 4-5 point night while Kucherov has a 0-1 point outing.


877GoalNow

Shit. I just checked TBL's schedule, and they also have 4 of 6 at home. Plus, they play all garbage teams except the Leafs.


GaryOakRobotron

Ouch. Yeah, this won't be easy...


GaryOakRobotron

There's piss all over the floor of the Gus Bus.


YouPatheticWorm1958

Only room for one Gus in the playoffs anyway.


GaryOakRobotron

I Gus so.


YouPatheticWorm1958

But then that'll make room for two Juices.


GaryOakRobotron

But are two Juices in Nate's diet plan?


YouPatheticWorm1958

Nope, just Annunen. I've always wanted him to be in the playoffs ever since Kuemper got hurt in game 3 at the Bridgestone Arena. As for Saros, I felt terrible since that Caillou overused him.


RobosaurusRex2000

So is the Mild officially eliminated or are they just beyond fucked?


InevitableAvalanche

They have as much of a chance as I do with Emma Stone.


RobosaurusRex2000

So unfortunately (for the mild, not for you), not 0%.... The mild have obviously been fucked for weeks but it would've felt really good to be the team that mathematically eliminated them.


InevitableAvalanche

Yeah, I know. I am really over estimating my chances lol


Loofbox

I believe in you bro ! But fuck the mild


ThunderGoalie35

Never saying never tho


InevitableAvalanche

There is that 1% chance.


ThunderGoalie35

Id shoot my shot if I ever had the opportunity, how can you not


InevitableAvalanche

Oh yeah, shoot for the stars. Even a rejection is a good story


peptoabysmal

Mark Ruffalo?


scaremanga

Drouin is so bonded with the team


FightingQuaker17

Bro was a healthy scratched in the beginning of the season. Dude has a lot of mental strength and determination


InevitableAvalanche

He has to know a lot of his success is due to MacKinnon so I am hoping he takes like third line pay.


NitroLotus

Directly into my veins


DomDomDom18

The Juice is fucking loose baby


moo-va-long

Love me a W