Only a frontal gabaotomy can bring out the stars from the head of the avalanche now.
“I think that is largely limited to the execution,” said AVS captain Gabriel Landeskog after the Colorado abandoned a second heart breeze for the Dallas stars, falling 2-1 in match 3. “Yeah, (the power game was a little slow, a little by having problems. And we are going to clean this.”
They lack time. Dallas entered Wednesday without his best defender, Miro Heiskanen, and his top scorer, Jason Robertson. Mikko Rantanen has been invisible for days. The AVS opened overtime offered for almost three and a half minutes to have an additional man. It was the first appearance of Landeskog in the NHL in 1032 days, a literal miracle on the ice, before a noisy, proud and loving ball arena.
All the stars were aligned to give the AVS an advance of 2-1. All except those of Dallas. Fans of AVS have done their part, shouting like banshees in the bitter end. Dallas coach Peter Deboer has always laughed. And Jared Bednar managed to ruin the night of Gabe.
“Dallas led for 62 seconds in regulations on three games …”, was questioned the AVS coach after another after-season shock.
“Yeah,” Bednar whispered through tight teeth. Severity has flowed.
The journalist continued: “How do you treat this, and what is your message to your guys?”
Tighter teeth.
“Well, the message is simple. I mean, we knew it was not going to be easy,” replied Bednar. “We play one of the best teams in the League, right?” So, you must continue to study the game, trying to collect small songs that can help us move forward, things that we have to do better, things we love we do. ”
Here is what he must do then: put the captain on the higher power game unit.
Desperate time. Desperate measures. In the history of the AVS-Stars qualifying series, the team with an advance of 2-1 won 67% of the time.
The worst? AVS could be up three games right now. Easily.
Twice, they took an advance of a goal in the point halfway through the third period. Twice, they smothered her. Twice, they had the chance to store Dallas via special teams. Twice, the stars have dragged and crushed their soul.
Meanwhile, the additional man suddenly became an extra-large problem. Colorado is zero for its last eight attempts with a man’s advantage, thanks to a huge goose egg in match 3 (0-6). The AVS PP is only 2 for 13 in this series.
Bring it along the left side? The short dropout?
They sniffed that, Bedsy.
Listening to Deboer Talk is like looking at the dry paint. But the man is not a model. He has compressed circles around Bednar and his staff. Again.
AVS special teams need new ideas, new wrinkles and new staff.
They need to replace Landy – who has not shown a lot of rust – for Jonathan Drouin on PP1 in a huge winning match and winning on Saturday evening.
Return the n ° 92 in front of the fold where it belongs. Leave one of the best league washer masters try to do something – anything – happen in front of the Dallas Jake Oettinger goalkeeper. Become fat. Change the bodies. Change the atmosphere.
The AVS could not take a break at the moment if you have launched one below. It was as if the gods of hockey gave Bednar the first eight minutes of the match, this glorious Landy reception, then returned the canal to the Oilers-Tings.
Even the Artturi Lehkonen clutch took a large net open at the start of overtime. The winger lasted a potential game winner who somehow ricochet in Esa Lindell of Dallas, who had thrown himself in front of Oettinger’s left post while his goalkeeper was extended along the right.
Now, avalanche fans have two long days to contemplate the unthinkable: if you could not get this thing above the line Earth’s night, For pity … when will you do it?
Because at 7:49 p.m., Ball trembled. Literally.
LAN-DY!
LAN-DY!
LAN-DY!
For a few seconds, the building scolded the way in which the Madison, Wisconsin, or College Station, Texas football stadiums do it on a fall on Saturday under the lights. Journalists of nose bleeding felt their seats move.
At 8:08 p.m., the ball shook again. Val Nichushkin came out of a sleep of two games and patinated the stars Thomas Harley in a peak of the hoops with the Brock Nelson center. The Chu Chu train suddenly found itself on its own in front of the Oettinger fold. The big Russian was deket on the left, then to the right, then slipped the washer in front of the side of the goalkeeper for an advance of 1-0 Colorado.
The AV seemed to fold after that, however, with only five shots during the first period and eight in the second. The hosts did not just drop their captain. They dropped a house closed in Burgundy and blue whose voices rose to meet the opportunity.
Karen Jara, a holder of the Parker season, presented himself outside Ball Arena on Wednesday with a white Landykog sweater and a white Landy panel. In the blue -felt tip marker she had written:
Oh Captain
# 92
My captain
Delighted with you “c”
“I stole this at Connor (McGahey),” said Jara, laughing.
“What he stole from Walt Whitman,” I said.
The latter line hit her Tuesday evening as a long-term in the area.
“But while I wrote,” captain “, the second time,” she continued, “it came to me.
Karen traveled this mile. She replaced partial from her right knee in 2010 and a complete in 2021.
“The old home injury,” she said, nodding her leg in question. “Buy a meniscus. With a meniscus. A few years later, the meniscus was daring on bone. ”
“How is the left?” I asked.
“The left is fine,” she replied. “It’s a bit painful, but not to the point that I have to see someone on this subject.”
Once a player is still a player.
“My heart goes to (Landeskog),” said Jara, “because I have an idea of what he is going through in relation to what I have experienced.
“And so that so many people give him so much (things) and do not understand the struggle and how it is in his blood – it is not a complete person if he does not play hockey. So I hope he is going there (Wednesday) and does even better than what he did with the Eagles (Colorado).”
He certainly did not waste time detaching himself. About 26 seconds after the start of the opening period, Landy crossed the red line, lowered her shoulder and quickly struck Rantanen on her belly.
LAN-DY!
LAN-DY!
LAN-DY!
The inhabitants had gathered with pushed signs against the glass before match 3, filling the aisles to better look at the story. To begging a washer. To say thank you.
Most paid by the nose. The cheapest ticket of half an hour before the washer of the washer on Vividseats.com registered at $ 103, including the costs.
For Karen, however, the simple fact of seeing his captain returning was quite indested.
“People say it’s an old soul,” said Jara. “He just has a way to connect with people. And you feel like you know it, even if everything you do is look at it. Not everyone would be comfortable with thousands of people who look at you at your daily grinding … have a crew (from the camera) to follow you. But it is ready.
“You can’t play with your knees.”
I cannot play with the stars in such a fenced series.
The AVS won at night, thanks to Landy. But they did not win the match. And if they do not change their special teams, they will not win this series.
“What should be better on power play?” Bednar was requested.
Gets tight teeth again.
“Everything,” replied the coach.
Madness does the same thing and expects a different result. We have already seen this film. No one on Chopper Circle asked for a suite.
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