GMRwings1983

I forgot your boy Jamie Benn. Also, is MacKinnon basically the de-facto captain of the Avalanche? He's technically not a captain. And who are the problem kids?

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And hire a witch doctor to exorcise the players who return. Don't want them to remember anything about this collapse.

It's like an AEW roster. Vanilla midgets. They've been s*** since Larkin returned also.

Or didn't lose to Washington last week..........or the week before that.

Nah. They weren't getting anything important for those scraps at the TDL. I agree he should have sold but just to get "something". They weren't getting high picks for s*** players. I'm not sure anyone would even give a 1st for Kane.

That's what 3rd periods are for.

They will fist us.

Our goaltending and defense are pretty good, no?

Copp would have trouble scoring with a drunken bar girl in Bangkok.

So you don't think Lalonde is an issue?

He had two or three odd man rushes. Not the guy ideally you want with the puck in that scenario. Then again, we only have maybe three or four forwards I'd trust on breakaways or odd man rushes. The rest are basically Draper/Helm.

We could probably criticize every player on this team for something. In fact, we usually do. I don't expect Rasmussen to score more than Copp or Compher. I do, however, expect a 6'6 forward to be more physical than a badminton player. Rasmussen will always be expected to do more because of his size. That's just the stigma with being a giant. Just think of every large pro wrestler who never became a major star. Those guys get more flak than smaller wrestlers whose gimmicks never made it.

Compher and Copp have never been big scorers. Their numbers this season aren't a big outlier. I realize scoring is up in the NHL from several years ago. So that's a counterpoint. Debrincat is helpless without linemates. Larkin being out hurt his scoring stats. He doesn't score even strength because he's small, soft, and overly reliant on powerplay scoring. Just like this entire roster. The powerplay is their offense.

Rasmussen is a "bottom", if you know what I mean. A 6'6 bottom.