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Avalanche Start Season With 5-2 Win Over LA Kings. Top Line Shows Their Dominance



The Colorado Avalanche season is underway and you can already tell things have a different feel than a year ago.

The Avs leave LA with a 5-2 win over the Kings to start of their season, and overall things looked very good for the Avs, especially that top line of Mikko Rantanen, Nathan MacKinnon and Jonathan Drouin that we have been waiting to see.

While LA got themselves back into the game with a flukey late 2nd period goal, the Avalanche never relented to surrender the lead, something last year’s team was all too familiar with.

Great start to the new NHL season!

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19 Comments

  7. Giacinto Matera

    The encouraging thing for me , was seeing Manson back on the ice and at times looked like himself, even though he hasn’t really played in almost half a season.,,, PS Bo will get back to Bo play,, as for PLD that should of been a 5 min penalty that was deliberate knee on knee,,,Drouin is actually trying hard I’ve seen him in Mtl the last 5 years never saw what he did yesterday , he used to glide back on D , yesterday he was most plays the 1st F back on D checking and playing D

  9. The Yeti Report

    Sound check: Hungry like the wolf – Duran Duran. The top line was buzzing just like we wanted to see. All of the Avs goals were beauties, and this squad looks angry they fell short last season.

    Also Chris said it best. Last years squad gave me ptsd when it comes to teams coming back on us. After that late 2nd goal for the Kings, I was fully expecting the Avs to lay down and let the Kings roll right over them. Glad to see the boys come out with some fire and put this one away. Hope to see more of it as the season continues.

  10. The Kid CoMn

    Very good game. Top line could be the best in NHL by end of year. 4th line was meh. Please get MacDermid off the ice; he’s useless. I do not understand the love affair. Where was Tatar? Even Girard was physical, which helps prove my hypothesis that he was not feeling great for a year and a half.

  11. TheNextGreat#8

    Top line looked phenomenal. Didn’t think Mikko could elevate his game any more than last season but that may have been the most complete game I’ve seen from him. The pass to Nate for the first goal was sick. The 2nd line was a bit non-existent but I think that is going to take a little time to build the offensive chemistry. Loved what I saw from the 3rd line and especially from Colton and Wood. Didn’t realize how good Colton was on the PK which was a pleasant surprise. As for Bo, he did look a bit off but don’t think it had anything to do with the preseason hit. Guys just have off nights. Georgiev was phenomenal as well. Kind of misplayed the puck on that 2nd goal but lets not kid ourselves, that goal was 100% Nate’s fault and should’ve never happened. I get what Nate was trying to do with 10 secs left in the period but it certainly backfired.

    All in all, great start to the season and solid win on the road against a very good team.

  12. Joseph

    What a great game to have to begin the season. I heart radio has a Kings channel that I listened to the game on.
    Glad we are on track, as Shaggy said 81 more to go
    Go Avs Go

  16. Kenneth Kinkel

    Good to be back fellas nice to see you took a break with Nuggets golden summer. Die hard Nuggets fan to so been a great year for Denver Sports. AVS looked great last night! The Moose is lose!

  17. lj291261

    A good start but I hope, Coach Bednar will take a look at the d pairing. Manson and Johnson, I don't know about that. Georgiev solid game. 👍

  19. drdr

    Surprised you didn’t mention Makar is on pace for 328 PIMs this season. Guy is such a goon! 😜

    Seriously though, what an awesome game.

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