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Important to still skate the puck. If we just clear the zone and wait, 29 and 6 are too fast. They can put up 3 against a lazy team in 5 minutes. Having the puck 200 feet away from your net is the best defense.

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5 minutes ago, crum said:

yeah i like this bischel kid...

He took a few games to ascertain the vibe in the NHL. Feels like he's embracing the role of 'bastard'. 

Derian Hatcher is one of my all time favorites. Been waiting for his heir.

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4 hours ago, crum said:

yeah i like this bischel kid...

I looked that ref in the optic stems and I said…

BISCHHHHHHH

El Fenix is closed at this hour.”

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10 hours ago, crum said:

yeah i like this bischel kid...

I don't know if they showed on TV but when they initially sent them to the box before sending them off, they put Bischel on the jumbotron and he played it up to the camera.  Was awesome in the arena.   Fun game.  Really awesome crowd for a late Monday night game.   Really hope we can come out and play our A game in Colorado Thursday as no doubt the Avs will bring everything they have.

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18 minutes ago, Skipper said:

I don't know if they showed on TV but when they initially sent them to the box before sending them off, they put Bischel on the jumbotron and he played it up to the camera.  Was awesome in the arena.   Fun game.  Really awesome crowd for a late Monday night game.   Really hope we can come out and play our A game in Colorado Thursday as no doubt the Avs will bring everything they have.

I was watching on Victory and Josh and Razor mentioned it and you could hear the crowd. But somebody was blocking the in-box camera so we couldn't see what he was doing other than what they said. Was he holding his hand up to his ear or something like that?

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Denver Post columnist does not like Jamie:

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Dude, where’s Makar?

They need you, Cale. The Dallas Divers can spot a sucker in pinstripes from a mile away. Five games in, it’s looking like a split decision, and the Avalanche is trailing on the scorecards of all three judges.

Not that it’s been a fair fight, mind you. This Stars roster is full of divers and divas. Jamie Benn turned in another Oscar-worthy tumble during the Avalanche’s 6-2 loss in Game 5. Maybe he got tired of all the love Mason Marchment has been getting from the Academy lately.

“Couple of those are preseason calls,” Avs captain Gabe Landeskog, whose amazing comeback is a loss away from heading home for the summer, told reporters. “Regardless, we’ve got to fight through it and keep playing.”

Meanwhile, can anyone remember a Stanley Cup series where Cale Makar has ever felt more invisible? When Colorado coach Jared Bednar decreed that his Avs had “too many passengers” back in January, no one could’ve pegged Cale as a candidate to flail. Or that the 2022 Conn Smythe Trophy winner, the best defenseman of his generation, would look like one of the guys just along for the ride.

Yet here we are. And when it comes to Denver’s Great 8, something’s … off. Something’s … wrong.


The Avs are down 3-2 in this best-of-seven opening round series, and Makar’s collected two points — and no goals — through five games. That’s the lowest postseason point total he’s ever managed in a series in which the speedy D-man made at least four appearances.

The Calgary native collected three points over four games in a first-round sweep of the Blues to open the 2021 postseason and three again in the series against St. Louis in the Avs’ six-game victory in 2022. Which was also the last time he was held without a goal through his first five starts in a postseason tussle.


“(Makar) had a little bit of a rough start to the series, but he was absolutely outstanding at home,” Bednar told reporters late Monday. “So yeah, we’ve had a few guys that struggled in (American Airlines Center) and played good at home. That’s a bright spot, going back to our building.”

Game 5 was Makar’s 26th career playoff game without a point. The Avs are 10-16 in those games. (Flip side? They’re 38-13 when he notches at least one.)

Game 6 at Ball Arena Thursday night is do-or-die. Makar’s appeared in 10 postseason elimination games already over a young career. He’s only gone without a point in three of those — and the Avs lost all three.

Although, to be fair to Cale, the Avs suddenly have a lot of passengers on Lord Stanley’s Struggle Bus. Nathan MacKinnon (five goals) and Logan O’Connor (two) have accounted for almost half of the team’s total goal count (15), while former or current top 6 fixtures Martin Necas, Brock Nelson and Jonathan Drouin have yet to find the back of the net through five appearances.

“You’ve heard me say it all along,” Bednar continued. “It’s going to come down to playing good teams that finish in similar spots in the standings, so you’ve got to go play your best hockey for two weeks in order to win, right? If you’ve got good players having bad nights, it’s not your best hockey. (If) you’re firing on all cylinders the other night, like Game 3 and Game 4, things start to look a lot better.”

The Avs have been too maddeningly inconsistent this series to count on anything, though. And, more troubling, some old, familiar signs of past playoff letdowns have reared their ugly heads.

Whether it’s Nikola Jokic or MacKinnon, it’s not the best sign when a league MVP loses their cool on the bench. For Joker, that was in San Francisco — days before Michael Malone got fired.

For Mighty MacK, it was with 15:04 left in the second period Monday night, with his Avs down 3-0 and staggering to get out of Texas in one piece. Cameras caught MacKinnon stressing something to fellow center Charlie Coyle as they left the ice, a point that Coyle seemed to refute, based on his body language.

Whatever was said, something clicked, as an Artturi Lehknonen tip and a gorgeous MacKinnon snapshot trimmed the Dallas lead to 3-2. Alas, that momentum didn’t last long — the Divers tacked on two goals over 1:44 to wrest momentum away for the night.

“There were some plays where almost uncharacteristic mistakes, here and there, but stuff’s going to happen,” Landeskog said. “It was more … some of the routes we took and gave up some odd man rushes more than usual, just a bit uncharacteristic.”


Speaking of uncharacteristic, per HockeyStatCards.com, Makar posted a GameScore — a hockey equivalent of baseball’s Wins Above Replacement metric — on Monday night of minus-1.84. That was the lowest grade for any Avs skater.

Going into Game 5, the Albertan ranked 11th among Avs players in Average GameScore (1.05) through Games 1-4. And that trailed fellow D-men Devon Toews (1.30), Sam Malinski (1.75) and Samuel Girard (2.03).

“Yeah, you’re always concerned (at) this time of year,” Bednar said. “You can’t have guys having bad nights this time of the year.”

You can’t have your stars disappear. Especially when Peter DeBoer’s Staggering Stars are smelling blood.

 

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31 minutes ago, C-Man said:

I was watching on Victory and Josh and Razor mentioned it and you could hear the crowd. But somebody was blocking the in-box camera so we couldn't see what he was doing other than what they said. Was he holding his hand up to his ear or something like that?

Exactly.   He went to the box, camera switched to a close up of his face on the jumbotron and crowd reacted, Bischel noticed and he started playing to the camera holding his hand to the ear and motioning.  Bench started cracking up as well.   Then they sent them down the tunnel and crowd roared as they skated across the ice.   Really fun moment to close out the game.

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So chewie writes for the post. 
 

and somebody is going to piss bisch off too much and get put down. That kid handles scrums by just moving people that don’t want to be moved, with an “I could but I won’t” look. 

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57 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

Denver Post columnist does not like Jamie:

 

 

45 minutes ago, Bill Brasky said:

what a bitch 

Ooh, "Dallas Divers" sick burn, you old, fat, white guy (assuming the columnist is an old, fat, white guy -- because most of them are).

Anyway, the dude is right about one thing -- Makar has been invisible. I keep saying the same thing each game. Let's hope he doesn't get untracked. Wonder if he's battling some kind of malady.

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Ah yes. The NHL is desperately trying to advance a team from Dallas with zero name recognition. MacKinnon, Makar, and now Landeskog don't present nearly as compelling a story.

I like whinging about officiating as much as anyone, more so than most actually, but howzabout not skating with your stick at nipple height? For a big, strong skater, Manson sure went down easy when Daddy bumped him. Also, you're not allowed to touch MacKinnon - everyone loves to ooh and aah over his speed! My favorite is his drop passes where he skates forward to the net and just happens to shield away every defender coming to play the puck.

Don't go 0-fer your power plays. It makes the other team hit harder and more often.

Look, Dallas got some decent puck luck last night. They weren't 4 goals better than the Avs, but that's how the scoring reads. It still only counts as 1 win, and the Stars are going to have to earn the last one - hopefully in Colorado.

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46 minutes ago, mbtex said:

It is so rich of them complaining when they worshiped Claude Lemieux. 

Man, I kind of enjoyed "Dirt Claude" myself. I was helping cover the team when the Stars brought him in late in 2002-03 season. He was cool. (That team should've gotten to the Finals but Guerin got hurt and then Giguere was wearing illegal pads.)

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3 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

Denver Post columnist does not like Jamie:

 

lol, we found Chewbacca. God the avs fans have been insufferable today. looking everywhere but inward. the stars were 1/4 in that game on the PP and won by four. the difference was likely the avs going 0-3 on their opportunities and 3/17 (17.6%) overall. by comparison the Stars have gone 4/18 (22.2%). For all the bellyaching the avs fans have been doing, the Stars have only had one more PP opportunity than they have, wouldn't call that an egregious disparity

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2 hours ago, C-Man said:

 

Ooh, "Dallas Divers" sick burn, you old, fat, white guy (assuming the columnist is an old, fat, white guy -- because most of them are).

Anyway, the dude is right about one thing -- Makar has been invisible. I keep saying the same thing each game. Let's hope he doesn't get untracked. Wonder if he's battling some kind of malady.

this is something way better to focus on - the play of Makar. I think it speaks more to Dallas' ability to shut him down than it does him being "off", but by comparison (and only that) Harley has 2g,2a and +1 in 5 games where he is play 23+ minutes a night. Makar is playing a full two minutes more a night and he seems nearly invisible.

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2 hours ago, C-Man said:

I looked it up. Sean Keeler wrote that column. Keeler is the columnist who Deion banned from asking questions at CU events last fall.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/40967823/colorado-bans-reporter-asking-deion-sanders-questions

Can’t remember the circumstances behind the Deion deal but I can’t stand Sanders. However, that article was so bush league for a purported major newspaper. 

I thought Roope in particular was excellent last night. He was all over the ice and dropped an absolute dime to Mikko. Hard to make it to one of the 3 stars with Wyatt and Mikko each having 3 points and Otter’s performance. 

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19 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

anyone know when they're going to announce our start time Thurs? is it dependent on something? trying to plan my evening! heh

Not sure when they'll announce those. Toronto-Ottawa will be the early game and LA-Edmonton will be the late game. I'm assuming another 8:45/8:50 CST puck drop for Avs-Stars until told otherwise.

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54 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

this is something way better to focus on - the play of Makar. I think it speaks more to Dallas' ability to shut him down than it does him being "off", but by comparison (and only that) Harley has 2g,2a and +1 in 5 games where he is play 23+ minutes a night. Makar is playing a full two minutes more a night and he seems nearly invisible.

i have focusness for pucks bouncing in to the net haphazardly FOR us and NOT against us

that's my fetish and last night the first 2 goals were 'baitin

exorcising whatever bad karma was fucking us for the last month seems to be fully underway

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45 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:

Can’t remember the circumstances behind the Deion deal but I can’t stand Sanders. However, that article was so bush league for a purported major newspaper. 

I thought Roope in particular was excellent last night. He was all over the ice and dropped an absolute dime to Mikko. Hard to make it to one of the 3 stars with Wyatt and Mikko each having 3 points and Otter’s performance. 

denver and colorado have had aggy-level penis envy against dallas and houston teams for 50 years

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16 minutes ago, C-Man said:

Not sure when they'll announce those. Toronto-Ottawa will be the early game and LA-Edmonton will be the late game. I'm assuming another 8:45/8:50 CST puck drop for Avs-Stars until told otherwise.

here's the timezones of thursday's games

east @ east

central @ mountain

pacific @ central

pacific @ central

googai has nothing - not even which disney/warner networs are slated 48 hours out

it's pretty obvious who is getting fucked

AGAIN

 

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24 minutes ago, C-Man said:

Not sure when they'll announce those. Toronto-Ottawa will be the early game and LA-Edmonton will be the late game. I'm assuming another 8:45/8:50 CST puck drop for Avs-Stars until told otherwise.

Toronto/Ottawa is if necessary.  That series could end tonight.  If so, either Dallas @ Colorado or Vegas @ Minn should get the early start.   I feel like more likely they will give that to Minn considering (a) they got f'd with a 10:15 local start game 2 so network probably owes them and (b) Colorado is Mountain time and that would be a pretty early Mountain start.  But if it's just 3 games, not sure how they will stagger the start times.

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5 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

here's the timezones of thursday's games

east @ east

central @ mountain

pacific @ central

pacific @ central

googai has nothing - not even which disney/warner networs are slated 48 hours out

it's pretty obvious who is getting fucked

AGAIN

 

Edmonton is Mountain I believe. I feel pretty confident the latest start will be Oil/Kings.

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