Dallas Wins!

[Hazelwood72]

Nine and zero for Pete Deboer in seventh game series.

I can't stand the guy but that's a ridiculous stat.

Here's an equally bad stat considering the refs gave the game to Dallas...

The Avs HF GDT was rather worked up over the calls in the third and the lack of the calls in the third. I have mixed feelings. The Drury play with 4 minutes left, in the 80s and 90s that never gets called. He tackled him. It seemed pretty (drat) obvious that he held and tackled the guy. In December that's a call all the time. I feel like in a tie game 7 with 4 minutes it's a tough call to make. It's a penalty but still..... Absent a stick to the eyeball or the dreaded puck over the glass the whistle should be swallowed. There was also a pretty obvious cross check by Dallas either right before or after that call and the whistle was swallowed. While I understand their complaining, it's a Kroenke team, so you know, suck a bag o dicks and all that.

Language! Lol. You should have said Mayest thou ingest a satchel of Richards

I may have to incorporate that one into my repertoire!!!

[TheJackBurton]

If Dallas could knock off a loaded AND healthy Colorado team without their best defenseman and top goal scorer, they will be a difficult out the rest of the way unless the Colorado series took too much out of them. If Ottinger keeps playing the way he has, I could easily see them going all the way.

One stat that shocked me was that the Avs only had 3 players that dressed for game 7 that were actually drafted by them . THREE!!! And if Landeskog hadn't played, then it would only have been Two. But those two were MacKinnon & Makar.....
And those 3 guys were all very high draft picks- I think 1, 2 & 4 in the 1st round of their draft years.

Dallas is a great example of Not needing top 5 picks to be successful.Only Heiskanen was a top pick at #3 in the 1st round. Just imagine if they had taken Makar instead....Yikes!!
But they have been very good at drafting mid to late 1st round picks and striking gold in the later rounds. Somewhat similar to the Blues drafting positions.
And there are a lot of similarities between Wyat Johnston & Jimmy Snuggerud. If Snuggerud turns into anywhere near as good a player as Johnston, then the Blues have a keeper for sure.

See I don't think Colorado was really all that great.

they made a ton of changes which rarely works out. Blackwood was much better in net than Georgiev but he certainly isn't a top goaler in the league.

Really other than MacKinnon, Makar, Toews, and Necas the rest of the team is pretty average.

They just tend to win a lot in Colorado because of the elevation. Their home-road splits aren't drastically different, but enough to make a difference between 3rd and 4th. A lot of that has to do with MacKinnon being superman in Colorado

Home 26-12-3 being +30 PP 28.2%

Away 23-17-1 being +12 PP 20.6%

They went .500 against the central at 12-12-2 +11 gf/ga

They beat up on the other divisions at 37-17-2 +33 gf/ga

It wasn't a shock at all that they were eliminated.

[dhsux]

Mackinnon must have slipped up and not monitored the players diets I guess.

So happy they are out.

Dallas will be a juggernaut.

They are good, but not a juggernaut.

They struggled for most of the series against Colorado.

They may get Heiskanen back, but I haven't heard anything about Robertson.

They are a very beatable team.

Well they have it in numbers, including goal tending.

If the Blues advance...and further their cred......I'll pick them in 7 over Dallas