Avalanche v. Predators - Scoring Chances #25

Tm	P	Time	Note	COL						Opponent
NSH	1	18:39		8	22	26	27	41	54	6	11	20	25	29	35	5v5
NSH	1	17:02	Goal	22	37	41	44	55		6	19	20	26	35	71	4v5
NSH	1	13:08		4	5	8	26	41	54	8	9	10	22	35	51	5v5
COL	1	12:23		9	22	23	27	40	41	6	8	19	22	26	35	5v5
NSH	1	9:10	Goal	4	5	25	39	41	55	2	9	10	22	32	35	5v5
NSH	1	2:06		5	26	41	44	54		10	11	29	32	35	51	4v5
COL	2	18:45		5	16	20	26	40	41	2	10	20	29	35		5v4
NSH	2	16:32		20	23	25	39	41	44	2	12	18	27	32	35	5v5
COL	2	16:23	Goal	5	23	25	39	41	44	2	12	18	27	32	35	5v5
COL	2	14:50		8	22	27	37	40	41	2	19	20	26	35	71	5v5
NSH	2	12:20		22	23	26	27	41	54	6	19	20	26	35	71	5v5
COL	2	10:54		4	23	26	27	41	54	2	20	25	29	35		5v4
COL	2	10:53		4	23	26	27	41	54	8	11	26	35	51		5v4
NSH	2	9:21		5	8	9	16	40	41	2	9	11	20	35		5v4
COL	2	8:50	Goal	4	23	26	27	41	54	8	12	25	35	51		5v4
COL	2	5:46		4	5	37	39	40	41	8	12	18	22	35	51	5v5
COL	2	5:27	Goal	4	5	25	37	40	41	6	11	20	25	29	35	5v5
COL	2	4:46		4	5	25	37	40	41	2	8	11	25	29	35	5v5
COL	2	4:04		4	23	26	27	41	54	8	9	10	35	51		5v4
NSH	2	3:30		4	9	16	27	40	41	8	25	29	35	51		5v4
NSH	2	19:54	Goal	4	23	26	27	41	54	2	20	25	29	35		5v4
COL	3	14:41		4	5	25	37	41	54	6	9	20	22	29	35	5v5
NSH	3	7:02		4	5	16	37	41	55	8	11	25	29	35	51	5v5
NSH	3	4:45		4	5	8	9	25	41	6	8	9	10	22	35	5v5
NSH	3	3:54		22	23	26	27	41	54	8	19	26	35	51	71	5v5
COL	3	3:30		4	5	23	26	41	54	2	11	25	29	35	51	5v5
COL	3	1:08		4	5	9	39	40	41	6	11	20	25	29	35	5v5
NSH	4	4:12		4	22	23	26	41		6	19	20	26	35		4v4
NSH	4	2:00		4	5	23	40	41		8	11	19	35	51		4v4
NSH	4	1:54	Goal	4	5	23	40	41		8	11	19	35	51		4v4

#	Player	EV			PP			SH
4	J. LILES	21:47	6	7	4:26	4	2	0:01	0	0
5	B. CLARK	20:55	7	6	1:35	1	1	1:03	0	1
8	W. WOLSKI	14:49	1	3	1:49	0	1	0:00	0	0
9	M. DUCHENE	11:53	2	1	1:51	0	2	0:00	0	0
16	D. TUCKER	10:58	0	1	2:03	1	2	0:00	0	0
20	T. PREISSING	10:55	0	1	0:32	1	0	0:00	0	0
22	S. HANNAN	21:37	2	4	0:00	0	0	2:28	0	1
23	M. HEJDUK	17:45	3	6	4:12	4	1	0:00	0	0
25	C. STEWART	11:33	4	3	0:00	0	0	0:00	0	0
26	P. STASTNY	20:08	1	5	4:24	5	1	1:38	0	1
27	K. QUINCEY	19:39	2	3	4:08	4	2	1:48	0	0
28	D. KOCI	2:24	0	0	0:00	0	0	0:00	0	0
37	R. O'REILLY	14:43	5	1	0:00	0	0	2:03	0	1
39	T. GALIARDI	12:38	3	2	0:00	0	0	2:14	0	0
40	M. SVATOS	11:26	6	2	2:09	1	2	0:00	0	0
41	C. ANDERSON	53:11	9	11	6:15	5	3	3:41	0	2
44	R. WILSON	11:29	1	1	0:00	0	0	2:02	0	2
54	D. JONES	17:47	2	4	4:06	4	1	1:13	0	1
55	C. MCLEOD	9:57	0	2	0:00	0	0	0:14	0	1

Period	Totals		EV		PP		5v3 PP		SH		5v3 SH
1	1	5	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
2	10	5	5	2	5	3	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	3	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	0	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	14	16	9	11	5	3	0	0	0	2	0	0

The Avalanche came out rather flat in this particular game and ended it in the same fashion. This was not a particularly good effort on home ice and was probably especially frustrating for the coaching staff who saw the team play well for exactly one period of hockey. Fortunately for the Avalanche that one period of hockey was good enough to earn one standings point. The game lacked excitement throughout but I did get a rise out of the wonderful play by Martin Erat that set up the Predators' second goal of the game, a beautiful deke around the defender and then drop pass to Marcel Goc for the goal. Aside from that play, the most exciting part of the game was checking out the awful mustaches that the Predators were wearing for Movember. My favourite was J.P. Dumont.

A couple of underperformers on the Avs worth a mention are David Koci who took yet another penalty this game despite playing less than five minutes of ice time. Unbelievable that he can be such a useless hockey player who takes so many penalties and yet stay in the lineup every night. Wojtek Wolski had one of his weaker games here as well generating very little. It looked like Sacco was moving him around the lines a fair bit trying to find a fit but he just didn't have his usual creativity.

On the other side of the coin, I will damn John-Michael Liles with faint praise by saying that he was only -1 on the night for chances and has looked quite a bit better since his return to the lineup. His most egregious giveaway didn't even result in a chance as he was able to recover in time. I don't mention his name often but I also thought that Marek Svatos had a particularly strong outing in this one. If the Avs could get more consistently stronger play from Hejduk and Stastny they could well right this ship and make the early run of good luck payoff in the form of a playoff appearance.