This team is so frustrating.

Difference between 2022 cup team and this team is secondary scoring.

Bottom six isn't producing. Cogs and parise hasn't scored in idk how long. Wood and kirivanta hasn't either.

Colton and duhaime have been only ones producing.

You can kiss central division good bye. So much for home ice through out the playoffs.

There was only one goal tonight you could totally put on Georgie.

First was on Girard coughing up the puck and Georgie was left hung out to dry.
Second was the broken stick play but Walker was marking an open patch of ice somewhere in the practice rink.
Third was a PPG with lost coverage by Makar or arguably Nichushkin. Nichushkin let the guy go and expected Makar (rightly imo) to take him and thus set up the box for the PK.
The fourth was totally on Georgie, went straight through him like he was a tea bag there.....perforated!
Fifth was simply a good goal by Dallas.
Sixth was lost coverage again by Mittelstadt/Girard and Manson, can't let guys walk the puck into your crease.
Seventh ENG...can't stop it from the bench!

The D simply need to go back to basics and learn to defend. All well and good being able to attack from the D but you also have to defend as well.

I'd be shocked if they won the cup with this line up and I hate to say it but Kadri really is the missing piece at this point. You always heard his name, most of the time for the right reasons and he was always involved. Mittlestadt is a ghost so far. Thanks for showing up awards go to Colton, Duhaime, MacKinnon, Lehkonen, Drouin and Trenin.

Avs defense has been trainwrecked this year and i dont know if its a coaching issue or whatever, but you cant blame a goalie for a team collapse. The amount of games where the Avs are lazy to start the game and let the other team go up 1-0 or 2-0 early is a sign of players not playing 60min. When the goals against are on PP's from taking stupid penalties, youre digging from a hole constantly.

Also, factor in the non stop inconsistency with the roster. Goalies thrive on consistency as they know how the players in front play (style/mentality). no Landeskog, Nichuskin in and out of lineup all year, girard was out, lines shuffled, Lehky out, etc...

Colorado hasnt had a healthy roster in half a decade. Thats the issue. Bednar coaches with zero passion and emotion behind the bench, and their strength and conditioning coach needs to be escorted by the Dutton family to the train station.

My emotional hedging is over lol 😂