1. 1,500 games is a lot of games. 1,500 games as a defenseman playing the style of hockey Brent Burns has over three decades approaches the absurd. To put the cherry on top, he's played most of those games while looking like the second mate in a Pirates of the Caribbean flick. His true love be the C (Joe Thornton).
2. Nils Lundkvist pushing play with the much-booed Miko Rantanen following up with a blind dish to Thomas Harley for an opening goal is something I could get used to. Could that really be this team's second defensive pairing? Did the Avalanche really willingly trade away Miko Rantanen?
3. If you've never had the distinction of listening to an Avalanche home telecast, consider yourself among the lucky. If one were to listen closely enough, you'd hear the broadcast team's pom-poms shaking in the background as they expunge on how elite the blisters on Cale Makar's ankles are compared to similar blemishes on any other human God.
4. You know how shots on goal is often not a good metric of how a game is going? Well, shots at 20-6 for the Avs midway through the second would beg to differ. It was kind of yucky, TBH.
5. Then again...is a tasty Esa Lindell cross-crease dart, deep in the offensive zone, to Nathan Bastian for an easy tip-in the new normal or did someone just actually hack the Matrix?
WTHeck?
6. The Avalanche broadcast just showed a stat that Brent Burns has the 4th most shots on goal of any defenseman ever.
PFFT...I have drank the 1st most shots of anyone watching the game with me. Granted, the dog is a lightweight but still.
7. Two minutes into the third period - it's 4-3 for the Stars who have now been outshot 29-12 with Dallas having scored on 3 of their last 4 shots.
Good luck betting on hockey, y'all.
8. Martin Necas looked like top-form Nate MacKinnon tonight. So did Nate MacKinnon. No more of this, please.
9. Also, Mr. Oettinger looked like an Olympic goaltender tonight. He often does. Tonight though? DANG!!!
10. Eighty games to go with wins against a President's Trophy team and one of the darlings of the West make for a not too awful start to the Stars' season.
All apologies to Brent Burns and his hall of fame hirsute chin but tonight the best we can offer you is second, mate.
To point 3, I really appreciate the Stars broadcast not being pom-pom waivers. I have turned on games while driving and almost immediately hear a goal call and hear Josh (or in the past Ralphie) and based on their excitement thought the Stars scored, but it was the opponent. I appreciate them getting excited for a spectacular play, regardless of who does it, because spectacular plays deserve that, whether it's the home team or the opponent. I hate the lowkey "score" or "goal" instead of letting me know something special just happened.
Pretty much every Stars-Avs game in Denver was like tonight’s game. You win the games that your goalie steals for you. That’s hockey. Stars looked like a team struggling to learn a new defensive system. But…goalie grand larceny.
I'm trying to think of an example of a Stars player being traded away or leaving in free agency where the Dallas fans boo him constantly just for those reasons.
- What is up with the jank ass victory+ broadcast this season? They've got Brien and Sevy in a fake room, tiny desk, messed up audi, no graphics etc. Looks pretty amateurish tbh, even though both Brien and Sevy are great analysists.
- The in-game ads are driving me insane. The board ads are w/e but now there's an add that extends from the scoreboard during play for periods of time? Also during OT the bottom 1/5 of the screen was taken up by a bigass ad WHILE SKATERS WERE SKATING. What is going on here.
And does any Stars fan prefer to hear from the Blonde (I nearly said Bimbo) and the Blowhard (AKA Kate Petterson and Frank Seravalli) rather than a full intermission of Brian and Sevy? Let them have their weekday show and keep them off of the game broadcasts, please.
You critiqued what you don't like about the broadcast; I shared what I don't like. What's the difference? Seravalli is not a hockey savant and he and Kate add nothing to the broadcast.
I called her a Blonde. I chose not to call her a bimbo. But do you believe she would be on the air if she were an average to below-average looking woman? As I said, she and Seravalli contribute nothing to the broadcast.
Plenty can be said about this rollercoaster game, most of which has already been said.
Controversial but I’m a fan of shootouts, maybe just because we’re spoiled with Robo and Otter. Also wish Roope shot on that 2 on 1 in OT but all’s well that ends well
Might not have been the best change, but they still had numbers back. A 2-on-2 turned into a tap-in on the doorstep. I don't think either Harley or Lundkvist would love watching that one back, personally. But it was a great play by Olofsson to regather the puck.
Interesting observation with respect to the Faksa line getting to face Colorado’s top line to begin the third period. Like Gulutzan said, it was a growth game.
10 R.R. Stars-Avalanche
1. 1,500 games is a lot of games. 1,500 games as a defenseman playing the style of hockey Brent Burns has over three decades approaches the absurd. To put the cherry on top, he's played most of those games while looking like the second mate in a Pirates of the Caribbean flick. His true love be the C (Joe Thornton).
2. Nils Lundkvist pushing play with the much-booed Miko Rantanen following up with a blind dish to Thomas Harley for an opening goal is something I could get used to. Could that really be this team's second defensive pairing? Did the Avalanche really willingly trade away Miko Rantanen?
3. If you've never had the distinction of listening to an Avalanche home telecast, consider yourself among the lucky. If one were to listen closely enough, you'd hear the broadcast team's pom-poms shaking in the background as they expunge on how elite the blisters on Cale Makar's ankles are compared to similar blemishes on any other human God.
4. You know how shots on goal is often not a good metric of how a game is going? Well, shots at 20-6 for the Avs midway through the second would beg to differ. It was kind of yucky, TBH.
5. Then again...is a tasty Esa Lindell cross-crease dart, deep in the offensive zone, to Nathan Bastian for an easy tip-in the new normal or did someone just actually hack the Matrix?
WTHeck?
6. The Avalanche broadcast just showed a stat that Brent Burns has the 4th most shots on goal of any defenseman ever.
PFFT...I have drank the 1st most shots of anyone watching the game with me. Granted, the dog is a lightweight but still.
7. Two minutes into the third period - it's 4-3 for the Stars who have now been outshot 29-12 with Dallas having scored on 3 of their last 4 shots.
Good luck betting on hockey, y'all.
8. Martin Necas looked like top-form Nate MacKinnon tonight. So did Nate MacKinnon. No more of this, please.
9. Also, Mr. Oettinger looked like an Olympic goaltender tonight. He often does. Tonight though? DANG!!!
10. Eighty games to go with wins against a President's Trophy team and one of the darlings of the West make for a not too awful start to the Stars' season.
All apologies to Brent Burns and his hall of fame hirsute chin but tonight the best we can offer you is second, mate.
I am remiss for not mentioning Burns and his Texas Rattlesnake Ranch. I am that much more grateful for your proper and due praise of his virtues.
To point 3, I really appreciate the Stars broadcast not being pom-pom waivers. I have turned on games while driving and almost immediately hear a goal call and hear Josh (or in the past Ralphie) and based on their excitement thought the Stars scored, but it was the opponent. I appreciate them getting excited for a spectacular play, regardless of who does it, because spectacular plays deserve that, whether it's the home team or the opponent. I hate the lowkey "score" or "goal" instead of letting me know something special just happened.
Pretty much every Stars-Avs game in Denver was like tonight’s game. You win the games that your goalie steals for you. That’s hockey. Stars looked like a team struggling to learn a new defensive system. But…goalie grand larceny.
Yep. No better time to steal ugly points than early in the season.
I'm trying to think of an example of a Stars player being traded away or leaving in free agency where the Dallas fans boo him constantly just for those reasons.
Only two thoughts from me this AM.
- What is up with the jank ass victory+ broadcast this season? They've got Brien and Sevy in a fake room, tiny desk, messed up audi, no graphics etc. Looks pretty amateurish tbh, even though both Brien and Sevy are great analysists.
- The in-game ads are driving me insane. The board ads are w/e but now there's an add that extends from the scoreboard during play for periods of time? Also during OT the bottom 1/5 of the screen was taken up by a bigass ad WHILE SKATERS WERE SKATING. What is going on here.
And does any Stars fan prefer to hear from the Blonde (I nearly said Bimbo) and the Blowhard (AKA Kate Petterson and Frank Seravalli) rather than a full intermission of Brian and Sevy? Let them have their weekday show and keep them off of the game broadcasts, please.
Have some class man.
You critiqued what you don't like about the broadcast; I shared what I don't like. What's the difference? Seravalli is not a hockey savant and he and Kate add nothing to the broadcast.
Calling people bimbos is pretty classless. I agree that that segment was pretty bad but again, have some class.
I called her a Blonde. I chose not to call her a bimbo. But do you believe she would be on the air if she were an average to below-average looking woman? As I said, she and Seravalli contribute nothing to the broadcast.
Plenty can be said about this rollercoaster game, most of which has already been said.
Controversial but I’m a fan of shootouts, maybe just because we’re spoiled with Robo and Otter. Also wish Roope shot on that 2 on 1 in OT but all’s well that ends well
Yes. That was a missed opportunity for sure.
The Stars went for a change with Olofsson entering the zone, leading to their second goal-didn’t look like a good time to change.
Might not have been the best change, but they still had numbers back. A 2-on-2 turned into a tap-in on the doorstep. I don't think either Harley or Lundkvist would love watching that one back, personally. But it was a great play by Olofsson to regather the puck.
Interesting observation with respect to the Faksa line getting to face Colorado’s top line to begin the third period. Like Gulutzan said, it was a growth game.