Nothing about faceoffs, nothing about broken plays or anything. There’s plenty of skill involved, but let’s give some love to these two guys for doing the kind of mucking and grinding that will play a month from now when the Avs are in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. When you watch two of Colorado’s goals tonight, you see yeoman’s work done along the boards by both Matt Nieto and Alex Newhook (first goal) and Lars Eller (fourth goal). Let your teammates fight another day and keep moving your feet to make something happen. That style of hockey is the grind-it-out cycle hockey.
What wins postseason hockey games, however, is a lot more methodical, a lot more intentional, and, maybe most importantly, a lot more reliable and repeatable. Those sell the game and make for wonderful YouTube cannon fodder. It’s not often you have a perfect night of special teams, but when you do, you land in Studs.Īll hockey fans love the highlight-reel goals, breakaways and odd-man rushes and high-skill plays that bring fans out of their seats. A perfect shot for his 47th goal of the season, Rantanen continued his pursuit of the 50-goal mark. There weren’t many penalties called tonight (there certainly could have been more, including the ten-second sequence in the first period in which Chicago had six skaters in the defensive zone and none were even attempting to get off the ice!), but the ones that were gave each team important chances.įor Chicago, they got early chances to get on the scoreboard and the Avs shut them down and when Colorado got its lone opportunity in the second period, they handled business with a Mikko Rantanen rocket over Stalock’s shoulder.
Coaches always preach that it starts where, but it’s consistently true.īetween Georgiev and Colorado’s special teams, I feel like I’m writing about a few elements of the Avalanche every night. I love that his first goal started with a good play by him in the defensive zone.
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