There was an optional practice on Sunday, the day after the Avs lost 2-1 against the Stars. Coach Bednar talked to the press.
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Bednar rocking the Nuggets hat. Let’s gooo! 🙏🙏
stay positive and confident. One game at time, our AVS team is good and they will respond in game 4 for sure.
So Weak. The Avalanche are done!
They havent lead in this series yet. Very disturbing and reminiscent of last year's first round against Kraken.
Also, this game reminded me a few games from the regular season. Like the one against Montreal or Blue Jackets. Those teams were really bad but Avs couldnt crack those goalies early and lost by surrendering to the only high danger chances those other teams had. This is what happened last night. Avs pretty much constantly attacking the entire game, Dallas shows up twice on the other side and scores.
Losing this pivotal game 3 is huge. Series is over. This Avs team reverted back to how they played in the regular season – inconsistency, defensive assignment lapses, giving up on plays, dumb penalties, lines 2-4 not producing, etc.
Last, Mac was frustrated, Makar was invisible, Mikko been trash the entire playoffs – mishandling of pucks, turnovers, dumb penalties by him. Val has been rather bad a couple of games now, Lekhy invisible. Midlestadt back to no show. PP is atrocious now. Cant gain entry and if they do, 2-3 passes and then a bad pass and the puck is out. Bad signs throughout. Can they win game 4? Sure, they can. Can they win the series? No.
Dumping the puck and chase is not the right strategy, you are just giving it to them and they carry it back into our d zone easy because we don’t offer much resistance in the neutral zone. We need to carry it in with layers behind, they will poke it and we have to retrieve them. Sorta pushing them back. It will wear them down eventually and entry will be easier