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sports jj there is here air of dean an empty ball arena following game seven
uh... i guess where do we start this one off air of i mean
uh... let's go with the game seven right i mean the game seven woes for this
group this generation of avalanche players
continue right this isn't the first time we've seen them have a hard
goal of game seven in fact it's the fourth time we've seen them have a
a tough going game seven in the last nine seasons so
uh...
i guess let's start their game sevens being a tough thing for the avalanche to
to overcome lately
i just
i can't i can't go there i honestly can if if the avalanche lost to the st
louis blues in twenty twenty two in a game seven
we can do forty five minutes on this but this is just it's different it's not
this isn't a series of the avalanche
and i know twenty twenty was was injuries and adversity but that's like
that's not the conversation to have about the series because of what this
team's overcome
because
every single player in their and down to jared bednar
the conversation and nathan mckinnon said it best he said
something along the lines of throughout the season
you try to say the right things the entire time
and then want to talk about how the reality is like the season has just been
it's been so tough for this team for so many reasons and it's
it's hard to blame them
and it's hard to put this and pin this on
you know the mental strength that wins it takes a win a game seven
i think they fought valiantly to the end they weren't consistent the entire
series but
god they just had so many odds back against them they'd be
they had a josh manson in a darren hound that were banged up in in the playoffs
and then out after missing the end the regular season in cagliano gets banged up
at the end the regular season and is in and then is out obviously for a
shitty hit from jordan everly
uh... valent chuchkin
that's that's the story in itself did did he screw this team over or is this
reasonably something that
was you know kind of
okay for him to take a personal leave and an understanding of you know fans that
are expecting more from a guy that just signed an eight-year forty nine million
dollar contract
cal macar we know he's hurt jared bedner said there's a lot of guys that are
hurt
i just did the jared bedner thing of taking a simple question and rambling gone
about it
and going kind of off topic
but to go back to your original thought
this season is not about and this series is not about
losing a game seven in it being an unfortunate loss
it's about
this team had
put everything it can on the line
and just rent ran out of options i don't want to say ran out of gas it is
ran out of
ran out of options their hands are up and and they need this break more than
anybody
yeah i mean i've talked a lot of abs fans they feel the same way i've talked a
lot of media they feel the same way you can even get the vibe from the players
right this yeah loss here was a tough pill to swallow because you know with a
full team
this series has a much different
look to it a much different outcome but it's also at the same time and easy
pill to swallow i feel like because of just that same fact they didn't have the
guys
they knew for a while that this just wasn't their year right you got that
feeling for a long time and
that's just the way it was so uh... there's
really both sides to look at it here for everybody and and that's definitely
the message i got from the players today yes all of them very disappointed that
they lost
but at the same time
the odds were just stacked against them and they they just had nothing but an uphill
battle to even overcome this series let alone the next three
if there's
if there's any example of what you're talking about about this team just
kind of feeling that way i think my favorite one was talking evan rod regas
about it
because he wasn't here a year ago
he didn't see what this team went through win the cup he wasn't in this room
but he has so much appreciation he spoke about all the appreciation he has for
this team
he spoke about you know the relationship he has with gabriel landus gog
despite never playing with him
the idea of rod regas and landus gog on the same ice at the same time is is
is a weird thought because it never happened
but he still had so much respect for
what gay brings to the room for what this leadership team team did for you know
there's two leadership cores on the avalanche there is
the young core that we're gonna watch for the next decades mckinann
and mccar and mico
you know maybe the vante isn't going by and we'll see how the summer goes with
with extensions
caves has one where you're left on his deal but obviously will be eligible for
an extension july first
and then there is the
veteran core the darren helm
andrew cagliano eric johnson jack johnson those older guys that are just
winding down on their careers
and he had so much respect and so much to say about both of them and and you
can tell that
he appreciates what these guys did he knows he wasn't
here a year ago but given the adversity in the fact that their summer was so
short
he genuinely feels like these guys put it all on the line and and did everything
they can to get to this point
let's look at tonight's game right just a frustrating game if you're the avalanche
because just like you're saying they left it all out there right you even
heard miko say that they played and left their heart on the ice
and you saw it they played a good game they even you know dominated that first
period couldn't crack grew bower and that's what really killed him in tonight's
game right that first period
just that their ability to create chances and then grew bower was shutting
them down i don't even want to point the finger at the avalanche goal scoring
which i usually do i love to point the finger at and say these guys aren't
scoring enough
but i think that was grew bowers period grew bowers told the show there more
so than the avalanche drop the ball
yeah absolutely he
he was unbelievable obviously they had another goal that was waved off
they tried man they thought they thought valiantly he made a lot of great saves
and you know two or three of them on mckinnon nathan mckinnon didn't end the
game with a goal
he thought he had one of the power play goal on a one-timer that ended up
just nicking ryanon on the way in and then he thought he had one on a one-timer
assisted by ryanon
that ended up obviously
getting called back after the challenge so
like they did everything they can grew bower came to play i said
before the game you and i were sitting in uh... downstairs and i said that
the avalanche are gonna
bring their best effort like they didn't game six because you and i talked about
this on the show yesterday on saturday
the crackin didn't lose game six the avalanche wanted it wasn't that the crack
and played bad
it was that
the avalanche found their game so it was a good avalanche team versus a good crack
and team of we saw the difference we saw for one game for obviously colorado
in game seven
i expected both of them to bring their best foot forward
and we saw that again
seattle was heavily outplayed in the first period
but they weren't turning the puck over they were overwhelmed by let's call
a spade a spade a better team but the better team doesn't always win
because the better team is dealing with what the avalanche of dealt with all
season
i said downstairs that this game is gonna wind up being
which goal he plays better
you want that second go back from bjork's jane but it's still a you know
a rush up the ice a semi breakaway with bow and bottom chasing behind him or
was drug maybe a buyer may forget which one
you want to save on that bjork's trans shot sure
uh... the other one bounces in off ben miers
your gift played well
but grew our played better
yeah you said that the avalanche or the better team but really just that top
line that was really just carrying everything right and i mean it's been a
problem in and this is no surprise anybody but this was another night where
you really missed
having some depth i mean even gerry bednar alluded to it in his post game
about missing the size and the
strength of the guys that were out of line up today and that was such a good
point right yet some wingers with some size love to go to the net and are afraid
to you know get physical about it
and that's what you need it against the team like seattle i mean they clogged
the hell out of the middle of the ice you and i were
watching for a second just at their defensive structure they would just
plant a deep a defense man right in the middle of the crease protect grew bower
and then they play those other four guys almost like a power play just a
revolving a p k a man yeah a penalty kill almost a revolving uh... diamond box
type
uh... and it
they don't really
venture out
past the center of the dot i wouldn't even say that that far they they barely
even go into the dot into the face-off circles with their
um... puk chasing so really just letting avalanche play around on the perimeter
and
um... every once in a while they'd be aggressive about it and they were just
again exactly the team that we thought we were gonna see in this series from
seattle is exactly the team we got and he's just stubborn
aggressive and physical and just had to play structurally sound
in order to succeed and they did that just that for seven games
they absolutely did they they
they played this series
the exact way that you have to play it to be a team that didn't have the death
that the avalanche had
mico ryan and it may can archery like an in game six and in game seven when those
three were kind of put back together
they did everything they possibly can
to will the avalanche and it wasn't enough because when the other lines jumped
over the boards
there was a snow goals
the and this is something that we talked about last time we recorded on
saturday but
you know jt com for had one goal
evan rudriguez had one goal for sis and i'm not bashing
evan rudriguez here he was unbelievable in the series i loved what that guy
brought and i sure as hell hope he comes back
that's something that you and i can just discuss here throughout the months of
main june because we're gonna have a lot of
filler podcast to talk about the upcoming off season july first is obviously
two months away from when you guys are probably all listening to this on may
first
uh...
but going back to that evan rudriguez is one goal jt com for had one goal
valentice can obviously ended up leaving after two games
but he had one goal that was your second line to start the season
to start the series with like an it or you know rudriguez on top line but that
was your other three top six forwards aside from me konay and lekon
meko had seven
in seven games nate had three
lekon and had three
no other forward scored
it doesn't matter who you also had jump into the top six you had large
seller jump into the top six at times you had many aro jump in dentis malgan
got some looks
nobody else from their forwards scored
it was the top line of lekon and meko and nate
it was the second line of rudriguez
nichushkin and com for
and not a single other forward scored
that was the difference that's that's what it was it's exactly what we thought
coming into the series the crack and have death the avalanche don't
and then the avalanches that got tested because they're in hell mentor the
lineup and then exited
nichushkin personal reasons that whole shit show of a situation
in jukkagliano hurt out and on defense
how excited
and how much did we pump up the idea of
heading into that final stretch of the season
the return of josh manson
the return of number forty two
and it's not because we've never seen him come back and play quote unquote
rusty
because his first time coming back from injury was that game where the avalanche
were on the road in minnesota and it was his best game of the season you can see
it with the eyes you can see it from the numbers and jared bedner even said
himself that that was his best game
he comes back
and looks absolutely brutal for two or three games
and then is back out again with the same injury so
was josh manson playing like shit or was he playing unbelievably hurt where he
just couldn't be himself
was it a mixture of both sure maybe but maybe eighty twenty ninety ten
of injury compared to him not playing well
and
then he was out of the line up right away
all the guys are going to be ready during homes going to be ready and then he's
out
cogley amis going to be ready and then he's out
it's just
their depth was already coming into the series
not up to par with what the crack and we're going to do
and
it got tested more and more guys left the lineup and like nathan said
uh... yesterday or this morning or whatever the hell he said it
a lot of guys keep exiting a lineup
and nobody's coming back
you know in hockey there's obviously this
mindset of well can you go or not
right and it's
it's as simple as that enough course every team's dealing with it every team
has guys banged up but it feels like
okay let's just say if you're feeling above fifty percent
you're good to go so if you're feeling fifty one percent
let's put you out there
because you're all we got i feel like they had a handful of guys that were at
that fifty one percent they're just barely good enough to go
they're just barely feeling
like they could make a positive impact but
you know maybe a small step backwards and and suddenly there at the forty nine
percent or below
and are are no longer
adequate but maybe forcing their way through it so
just obviously a much needed break for this team a much needed rest recovery
time and and just having a
a regular sized off-season for them is you're going to do wonders right i mean
not only from the physical side of the game but a chance to recharge mentally
remember that last game of the regular season when nathan mckinnon comes off the
ice and says yeah i'm actually happy this season's over
right you can probably he didn't say that tonight but you know he's probably
thinking it
uh... yeah i would like to win but i'm happy this season's over so
they're gonna do a lot of recovering both physically and mentally this off
season and
just wasn't in the cards this year
regroup get back at it next year
jj it's been four years since these guys have had a regular off season
it's been four years
twenty twenty was all fucked up
march to august first and then you come back
and then you don't play until january something or whenever the hell that
short in season started
and then they lost a vegas in game six in the second round but it was like
june ten
because the second round stretched all the way to mid-june
the stanley couple of one until mid or end of july by the campaign in twenty
twenty one
mid-june despite losing in the second round they still had a june to
october turn over
so you're talking
twenty twenty one june to october turn over
twenty twenty two june to october turn over once again
twenty twenty three they lose game seven it's april thirtieth
and they are off until
late september when training camp starts to get almost five months off
the last time they had a traditional real off-season like this
was in twenty nineteen when they lost game seven to the san jose sharks
they came back
after that year
as one of the best teams in the n h r that we've seen over the past four
regular seasons
with a stanley cup to show for it as well
they need this badly they really genuinely do and i'm sure a lot of you
listeners do too it's it's been an emotional roller coaster and a lot of
avalanche fans that have been texting me and DMing me about how
this one hurts but it doesn't hurt
as much as you would have thought despite losing in game seven again going back
to the very first thing we started the podcast with its its
they want to stand the cup
they lost cadre they lost bergie they lost obey kubel
they obviously signed the chuchkin over cadre which
i'm not i'm not having this conversation i i don't love the amount of people that
are texting me saying i hope vowels not back next year i'm not going there yet
we got to figure out what the fuck's going on first
uh... val didn't fuck over his team maybe he did but like
let's chill on those takes
but then landers cock doesn't come back you expected new hook was it me i think
it was me that said in september hey new hooks gonna break out like tyler seige
didn't second season boy was iran
jt com for your second line center
so it's just it was it was thing after thing for this team where
you can't blame them
and then you get to the trade deadline and and the christmick farland hate
mind boggles me as well because
people act like
he didn't build this team with joe sakig and still isn't building this
team with joe sakig the differences he's now making the calls
you get to the trade deadline the avalanche want ryan o'rally toronto jumps
ahead of the game and over pays for a player that look what he's doing in the
playoffs he's been unbelievable if they had him hey maybe things are different
but they didn't have the assets to give up what toronto gave up
then you turn to your second choice of uh... sir johnnathan taves
and then he gets shut down and and uh... chicago analysis he's not getting
traded
you're looking at shawn monahan didn't play from december through the end of the
year
he's out then there was like a little bit of a murmur of adam henryk
three days before the trade deadline injured out like it was thing after
thing where it's like all right we got to go for a fifth choice in lars
alert who some idiot on a podcast in denver hyped him up for the last two
weeks of the regular season
all the way through to saturday april twenty ninth when this idiot on a
podcast and lars elers is gonna score in game seven
but here we are
he didn't score he didn't provide that offensive touch
another piece of topic will will discuss over the next couple months is
i feel like lars elers the perfect nine hundred k fourth line center to
replace their inhale but obviously that's a conversation for another day it's
just
the disappointment that people are feeling should not be the level of
disappointment you felt
in twenty twenty or twenty twenty one losing to vegas
or even had the avalanche loss last year to st louis or or even to edminton
for example this one is just different
you got a tip your hat to what this team did
tip your cap to these guys
and just be excited for you and for them that they get this long break and
can to come back stronger obviously with some question marks
surrounding land is gone in a choose to get in all the uf a's to be
yeah i know that the injuries are definite
excuse and
and i know you like to
get the back as you just did get the back of the front office but i think
there's definitely something to be said for the off-season and not
finding a two c and saying all right we're going with new hook
the trade deadline
a little bit of inactivity so to speak and then you've got lars alert tonight
as your second line center obviously that that void was just never filled
they were never able to find anybody to get into the two c role no matter what
happened
with the injuries it didn't really affect that that to see position so
uh... at the end of the day still kind of hurt to not to not have anybody there
you gotta roll your dice and take your chances and they took a few chances and
this season look
it's not that i i i'm gonna have the backs of the front office it's just that
everything they did didn't go right
every
role of the dice they made didn't go right
let's here's an example for you
last year they traded a great prospect in drew hellison
and a high draft pick a second rounder to an high four
josh manson
and he was unbelievable in the playoffs
what if the josh manson that showed up to this year against the adult banged up
in terrible
was a josh manson you got last year in the avalanche loss to edminton
we would be bashing josecic what a terrible trade that's the defense when you
go after
what if our turi lekon and came in and you know this is kind of a little bit of a
reach
gave you the same lack of offensive production they got from lars alert
you would be bashing but everything they did last year even down to nico
stir and being exactly what you want
adept forward that you're not gonna feel shameful to to to to to scratch
like you would with tyson jose and also brings a physical element that you didn't
get in tyson jose
ever and then obviously cagliano just what an amazing pickup everything they did
last year
worked out this year
they said will roll with new hook twenty one years old
number sixteen draft pick
we've seen this over and over again
where these young guys put up thirty to forty points and break out the next
season
and they said
we're gonna take our chance here after trying to sign cadre but obviously not
being able to do we're gonna take our chance here
and it doesn't work
so let's just replace him with jt comfort because you know what
jt comfort season ago the avalanche were four and one with him is the second line
center when nazim cadre was hurt
but here's the thing
jt comfort in those five games in the playoffs
played with valentice who's getting a blend is called so there's another wild
card thing gave land is gone
he's gonna be back nope he's not back
so it was just
everything they tried and then obviously the trade deadline you just talked about
it
ends with lars aller and that's the guy they end up with and that doesn't work
out either just
everything they did
went wrong this year
with every move every team makes you're rolling a dice you're flipping a coin
and sometimes
you know that coin is more than likely gonna land on the side of this is gonna
work just you know depending on the move like
you can add a lot of terrace ankle we don't even know if the rangers are gonna
win you can add a lot of terrace ankle and patrick can be like
yeah this is garbage but they still might lose
you were going into that as the rangers and christuary thinking yeah we're for
sure gonna be fine
adding these two scores
and even that might end up failing
given everything they gave up
so
it's just
the front office
their season goes as the players on the ice in the the bad luck of this team goes
everything they tried
just blew up in their face all even throw in the alice gal chennyak
experiment into that right i mean that is a guy maybe a little bit of excitement
getting a p t o with the team and then he he had to disappear from the team for a
little bit
can we can we talk about how jack johnson came into the twenty twenty one twenty
two season on a p t o after playing one year with the new york rangers where he
was injured after fifteen games after signing a five year fifteen million dollar
contract with the pittsburgh penguins only to get bought out after two seasons of
it because he was atrocious
and we also had their were like
uh... this is going to be hilariously nothing just like what curdice glen cross
and all the other p t o's of the past that didn't have to anything like that's
the first thing that thinks of me when i think of avalanche p t o's curdice glen
cross
and all these p t o's came and went and nothing happened
the twenty one twenty two season was so fortunate
and everything went well
now some cadre's coming off an eight game suspension and a shitty season before
he got suspended against the st louis blues
and still
put up eighty seven points in seventy one games
everybody not everybody a lot of people wanted cadre traded in the summer twenty
twenty one josecic said we're gonna we're gonna roll the dice and try this guy
and and he had the regular season he had and
scores a hatrick and st louis and then comes back in game four puts the dagger
in the Tampa Bay lightning with a broken finger and overtime like
everything they did last year down to a frickin p t o for jack johnson
who ended up being a part of your defense when you want this day on the
cup and a guy that you even brought back at the trade deadline and looked
better this year than he did last year
that's how good the twenty one twenty two season went compared to like you said
at gall chan yuk to the bunch you are hoping to strike another
you know gold mine
and you got a whole lot of nothing for it to the point where brad hunt was your
number twelve forward thank you were gonna say that that's exactly what i was
gonna go with ice time i mean it's pretty sad when you're
running out of body so much that you have to throw in a for a throw in a
defenseman on your fourth line as a forward and give him forty one seconds
of ice time and one shift and it wasn't the prettiest of shifts but i
wouldn't say it was so terrible that you had to cut him off completely but
that's just exactly it right you you don't have guys that you can trust within
your system enough to even make a call up to even go with a guy like gal
chan yuk to even go with a guy some of the guys that have you know been with
the eagles and produced all year long you're more comfortable throwing in a
defenseman that you know hasn't even played the full season with the team so
definitely odd there and uh... you know
like you said something we'll get into later in the off season but it's going
to be an off season that the avalanche are gonna have to get to work and rebuild
not rebuild
put put together the broken pieces of this team a little bit yeah it's it's
something we're gonna talk about but if you if you ask me just from the on set
what makes it hard to build this team and joe and and uh... christina a lot more
than you and i do in a lot of people that are listening but
you have a question mark in number ninety two you have a question mark in
number thirteen
and and those are tough because
those are two guys that are under contract in huge parts of your team and
as many people are saying
i hope valve's not back in all that bull crap
if i want to change comes out and score seven goals in the first seven games
next year like he did this year everybody will quickly forget what
happened
it just wasn't there you're this year and it is what it is but
you have your top line
of lekon and mckinnon and ryanin you have your second line wingers of
land is going to choose can assuming both of those wild cards go in your
direction
and then when you look at the bottom six
alex new hooks in our faith in who the hell knows if they trade him or if they
sign him given the way his season went and that he still has value as a trade
chip
then myers are you hoping he breaks out because if i were if i were
predicting i think the avalanche are going to make sure they have enough
bodies that if then myers doesn't work out this time they can replace him
jt comfor is he going to come back lars allers he coming back evan rodriguez
basically what i'm getting their own and do cagliano basically what i'm
matinee at another uf a names are coming to me right now
basically what i'm getting at is
you have five of your top six no second line center
and then from your bottom six the only person i could confidently say will be
back next year
is everyone's favorite hard worker number twenty five logon o'conner
you might need to fill
six forward spots
and obviously there's a chance they might fill it with a matinee at all as a
twelve thirteen forward with a large hour as a fourth line center making eight
nine hundred came maybe a million tops to replace their in hell rather than
coming in and trying to save the season as a second line center in game six and
seven
you know putting him in a role with the salary of
this fits you a little bit better
they have to fill a lot of roster spots
and then you look at the defense erg johnson is he coming back or is he
retiring or is he signing elsewhere jack johnson same exact thing three
scenarios there
uh...
bowin bieroms and rf a devontaises one year away from uf a
and then obviously there's a question hovering around number forty nine who's
was great in the end of the regular season pretty good in the playoffs to
but if you got a clear up caps based somewhere that's the obvious choice so
there's gonna be
a lot of things that need to be answered this off season
and unlike in twenty twenty two
well the summer of twenty twenty two i should say because the couple is great
the summer of twenty twenty three needs to go a little bit better for this
teams
off season
uh... for this team's front office i should say and the decisions that they
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so
where do we go from here
i don't know i was gonna uh...
ask about the rf a's but you kind of just rattle them off
uh... so i i guess where where did the avalanche go from here right i mean
like like you said we gotta get to work here in the off season but
uh... it all starts fresh in
what five months from now so
he's just got a hope for a recharge team and and a team that's a little bit
more potent i would say right the goal scoring has kind of been an issue
all season long and uh... you saw it
really bite them in the ass here in the playoffs so
uh... you gotta get aggressive gotta find some guys that fit the system and
and find some guys that have that great mixture of skill and size and
physicality that that there been our love's right
yeah absolutely i mean the the alex new hook and bow and byrham deals are so
fascinating to me
because again bow and byrham like
there's no question that this is an unbelievable player
but how much do you trust that you can give him a longer term deal right now
how much do you trust that you can even give him a
uh... bridge deal like what sir get chav got making for something
four point something million before he signed his big eight million dollar deal
or eight and a half
because he's missed a lot of games with concussion issues in the injuries and
just in and out of the line up for the last three years obviously
not something he planned but unfortunate for him
but how much money can you put into him
and then you go to the forwards and you obviously have been myers who's a
who's an rf a if he's gonna come back it's gonna be a low money you know they're
gonna just tender him and
and go from there
you have dentists malgan who you can probably bring back making
league men or something close with if he doesn't want to go back to europe
because he was pretty good at the end of the regular season
another death for it again we're talking like twelve thirteen fourteen
forward not
you know
the guy that where he's flooded right now yeah like where he should be
slotted but
with the idea in mind that matineeiro's not playing on the second line where
you're like hey let's try malgan like no you have like a legit top six a
legit top nine of the malgens kind of just this extra guy
and then obviously there's alex new hook
there's alex new hook who look
is the idea of alex new hook blossoming into a great player
something that
i think is for sure not gonna happen
i'm not there
but in the st louis blues and this is a terrible example but you know what it
got the mister and the cups of who gives us shit if you're the blues you don't
care
the st louis blues
didn't have the time to wait for
tage thompson to develop
so they use him as one of the main pieces to bring in rhino riley who won
them the stanley cup and won the consomite in the process
and i just have process
washington a lot of t s and in the process
have a little bit in kennan nineteen frickin years
uh...
lost my train of thought oh yeah so they didn't have the time to wait for
tage thompson to develop
so they shipped them off as one of the main pieces
here we are they want to stand up in twenty nineteen
twenty twenty two tage thompson was a thirty goal score in twenty twenty three
he is blossoming into an unbelievable player and if you're the st louis blues
you're not sitting there thinking man i wish i had tage
you're sitting there thinking great i'm so happy for him
but we have a stand the cup and uh... consomite trophy from one rhino riley that
we traded for even more draft picks now
i bring up that example because with alex newhook
do you have the time
to give him another opportunity to blossom
because he had all the chances in the world to be the second line center this
year
you would be silly unless you have no choices and even then we would question
it
if chris mcfarlane josecke in the rest of that team go into next season with
another
we're gonna give alex newhook the first look at second line center that can't be
an option
yet have nathan mckinnon and somebody behind him who makes sense
and if that's the case
well how is newhook in a blossom in the bottom six
how is newhook in a blossom as a winger
you gotta get him somewhere in my opinion
where
he can get that chance like he did with the avalanche this year
but without the pressure of doing it
on a defending standard championship team within his mind thinking oh great i
get to play with val and land is gone and then he's playing with martin kal
and the chuigen
instead of land is going to chuigen
because of the injury
that's why newhook is such a wild card to me
you can sign him for low money and bring him back but you would be crazy
to go into next season again saying newhook's gonna be our first look at
second line center
but at the same time
if you bring him back as a third liner or a winger
you're not giving him the best opportunity to develop so it's just such a
fascinating question does this team have time
to wait for him or do they got to do with the blues did with tach tomsen
and use him as a trade chip while he's got value
to go somewhere else because
for so many years the sabers look like they had nothing out of tach tomsen
until twenty twenty two he blossoms
and you're like all thank god the peace that we gave up that we got back for
ryan o'Reilly ended up becoming a piece
newhook's just a curious one because i still don't feel like you know what he's
going to be as a player right thing either their moments where he has goal
scoring ability there's moments where he looks a lot like andry kagliano in
that for check and then there's moments where he has neither
uh... so i you know i don't know if
he's a project to be giving up on just yet and you know we'll get more into
this in the off-season yet
you know you feel a lot safer with the guy that you mentioned like a logan o'conner
you know exactly what you're going to get out of him next year you know
going to understand it perfectly he's a winger on your third slash fourth line
i mean last year when they were injuries and nicholas albe kubel
was your third line right winger that wasn't because he's better than a logan
o'conner
that was because logan o'conner with kagliano in hell was so unbelievable
you ain't splitting that line up for nothing like no nothing's going to get in
the way of that combination
so it kept logan o'conner but he slots in so perfectly he has a role
new hook wasn't able to grab a hold of that to see this year so does he have a
role on this team next year
because he should be a one to see in this league
and if he's not
he's got value right now you gotta trade him
and you know whether you get somebody like
my favorite uh... trade deadline target nichmaltz or whatever you want to
say whoever it is at the avalanche try to get for him
or maybe they just recoup draft capital that they use elsewhere to to
to trade for pieces at the deadline or whatever it is
at least if you're the avalanche in two or three years from now if new hook
breaks out you can say i'm so happy for him
but there was no way that was ever going to happen here because we cannot go
into another season
with new hook as the guy slotted into that to see hole but again
will say that conversation because i have a lot more to say about it that is
not at eleven forty eight p.m.
the night the avalanche lose a game seven
yeah yeah i mean we talked a lot about the avalanche in the season that was and
and what happened but i don't think we've given up credit to the seattle
crackin you know they they played well
they didn't have one single guy i would say that stood out as the guy that got
them through the series they did it as a team they did it as a unit and they did
it playing
again like i said at the top of the show a structure that they had to play
if it fits him
it fits their style of team and it fits the way they need to
succeed so it's just a perfect storm for them to play that style will see how
far it gets them
they got a really
contest on their hands and dial stars here on to yeah absolutely that's going
to be a rough and tumble series but pop quiz time for you do you know how many
players on the seattle crackin square to go on the series
i would say
at least twelve fifteen with all of our biorks and you know how many of those
guys scored more than two goals
eight guys for more than two goals so just those eight of the fifteen
okay so three times eight is twenty four goals plus
now you're talking this court forty goals in the series
give me a reasonable answer that would when it's not midnight
no
i don't know i already gave you an answer and i blew it nobody of those fifteen
guys for more than two goals
zero people square three goals
that's where you're going
i was i was going the other direction yeah you're going the other direction
where
eight guys for at least three goals which is twenty four seven more guys had at
least a goal which is like thirty one now you're talking to your your give
had a shitty series
because the out of thirty thirty five goals in seven games which is not the
case obviously you really feel bad for a guy like your given the series because
he really brought it and you know coming into the season
he was a question mark and and
he's no longer a question mark but
unfortunately for him they just didn't didn't have the goals i remember if i
said this to you or i remember if i said this somewhere else or on this
podcast i don't know where i said it but if you listen or heard me say this
before it means i've said it here
the battle of your gear versus group hour was the battle of god we both wish
we were dersie camper
that's ultimately what it is
uh... can you argue with the season that group hour had in twenty twenty one
the regular season
he was a freaking
that's a trophy finalist
can you argue with the season that dersie camper had in the regular season
twenty twenty two
he was unbelievable is in nine twenty one and thirty seven wins
can you argue with the regular season that your gift had in twenty twenty
three
no you want forty games led the n h o line is homework also eliminated today
didn't get to play game seven because he was so bad
but only one of those guys one the family company was the guy that almost
lost his eye in the third game
and was like borderline arguably the worst of the three of the worst of the
three in the playoffs
but again obviously there was a circumstance that led to that
group hour
the team just didn't have it and group hour didn't get eighty seven point
nazim cadre and group hour didn't get uh... anazim cadre that was unbelievable
in the playoffs he got the guy that was suspended and kind of left his team
hung out to dry in twenty twenty one
your gift didn't even get to play with nazim cadre or a second line center
or gay bland as god or a whole bunch of things it was the battle of god we both
wish we were dersie camper
and now group hour gets to move on and you know i
this might blow up in my face later but certainly win in the stay on the cup this
year so group hour still gonna end the season just like your gift without a
cup
well dersie camper sitting at home enjoying his long vacation
knowing he still has his from twenty twenty two
yep and you know group hour feels vindicated you saw it in that little
celebration once the final yeah horn blue uh... i'm honestly i'm happy for him
if there was somebody that you wanted to win this it was him because
he didn't
there wasn't any
like issues between him and the avalanche he obviously took the big money
deal which he should just like nazim cadre it was another one of those
situations where he played a great last year
and something that will probably see jt comfort do you hear granted i think
jt
cost himself a little money in the playoffs
that's going fifty one points in the regular season is still
something that i think you know
people are gonna value for a player that's likely gonna slot in
on your top on your bottom six as a as a third line center of some sort
yeah i mean we got a lot of question marks i guess
in the in the season to come or the off season to come and we'll see how the
avalanche navigated but
for now i guess we'll check out and uh...
thank everybody for hanging out with us this this season and this off season
right i mean i i know it's a much needed break for everybody and uh...
hopefully the avalanche is
approach it correctly both from
team building standpoint and arrest and recharge
yeah and it's been it's been wonderful when i can say our final good advice
because we'll probably take a week off here come back to you guys next sunday
with some off-season conversations we have a ton of ideas of things to get us
through
uh... mayon june because july first and you know even end of june week we got
the draft the avalanche still have their first round after something that i
often forget
uh... which is a good thing for for a team that is out in the first round
you know for now
this next week is going to be a little bit of a recharge all probably right a
couple things but
god where
we are both about as exhausted as this team is um...
so it's going to be a nice week off but you know
we're not ready to say our goodbyes just
indeed indeed so i guess
uh... once again thanks for hanging out with us all season long and put up with
our podcasts sometimes they're good sometimes they're not as good but hey we
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we love you guys and uh...
will still be here for you throughout the off-season
and before putting into the show the last thing that i want to say is
something that i probably should have said a few times throughout the playoffs
but you know kept forgetting is
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yeah i mean you just made me realize in the last twelve months we've probably
had about
six weeks of
six weeks of non-avalance hockey and
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