He's been an outstanding defensive forward all year, and now he's adding the offense.Riley Nash has been excellent of late.
Yeah Lavi went trolling for this.Always interesting to see what lines get put out next
K. Miller and McQuaid are great at covering the backs of their teammates.Rather not lose Miller on a useless fight here. Fuck off McLeod.
You knew he was geeked up when he heard of the Mcintyre emergency recall.I guess Haggs has to write another column now.
Wonder if he maybe reposts the one about 14 year old girls from a few years back.I guess Haggs has to write another column now.
I hate to admit it but this is so true. He was awful last year but he is way down the list of problems this year.Random thought, K. Miller has played so much better this year than last year.
There's a legitimate case to be made that he's had a huge role in saving their season. I wouldn't have guessed that either.Riley Nash has been excellent of late.
That's the talent shortage showing up. Hayes, as most agree, is pretty useless.......bad hands, late to the action on 50/50 plays, gets less leverage in board play than Krug (he reminds me of Bledsoe running QB sneaks). But his uselessness helps make the entire 3rd line ineffective. Not saying that Spooner is great, or even better than average. But while Hayes on the wing would make Bergeron-Marchand mortal rather than superior, it turns Spooner and whoever the other wing is from mortal-and-occasionally-useful 3rd liners into useless. Spooner, Vatrano, Hayes played under 10 minutes.I thought they really showed up to play tonight effort-wise and earned the win, but that game could have gone either way. It's a little concerning that they can bring their best effort and not definitively outplay a team on the second night of a road back to back. But a win is a win.
I'm not sure this is even true.That's the talent shortage showing up. Hayes, as most agree, is pretty useless.......bad hands, late to the action on 50/50 plays, gets less leverage in board play than Krug (he reminds me of Bledsoe running QB sneaks). But his uselessness helps make the entire 3rd line ineffective. Not saying that Spooner is great, or even better than average. But while Hayes on the wing would make Bergeron-Marchand mortal rather than superior, it turns Spooner and whoever the other wing is from mortal-and-occasionally-useful 3rd liners into useless. Spooner, Vatrano, Hayes played under 10 minutes.
Ask Claude Julien how easy it is to rotate players when you have pressure from above to make the playoffs, come hell or high water. In the cap era, when you have to make hard decisions about depth players, you don't get the luxury of stocking your rosters with most team's top-9 forwards/top-4 defensemen/starting goalies, so if your depth is ever tested, there's going to be a downgrade in talent, whether is lack of development to date or simply being a poorer player getting bigger minutes than they should. Voluntarily stress-testing your team's depth isn't exactly something teams will flock to do.I'd love to see a forward thinking team try a strict rotation with all their players. With 2 extra F and 1 D every game, healthy players would play ~70 games. Imagine Washington right now with Ovechkin et al. coming off healthy 70 game seasons? Yeah they might be a 3 seed but they'd be terrifying going into the playoffs given the grind of an NHL season.
The sad thing is the Avs were trying to win going into the season. They have 43 points with 7 games remaining. They need 11 points to match the Sabres '14/15 team that was openly tanking the entire year.Putting this in a game thread because it's a game thread-level thought.
Colorado has a -106 goal differential this year. Arizona is second at -63. Nobody else is worse than -50.
The Avs are on some '03 Tigers level futility