AVS stars Game 4 Studs & Duds

The Colorado Avalanche reacted to consecutive overtime losses with a 4-0 hutout of the Dallas Stars in game 4..

Bolt

Mackenzie Blackwood

This was not the hardest workload for Blackwood, since he “only” made 23 parades and had to stop four high-Danger goal shots on the shots on the scores, but he made all the parades and from the perspective of a goalkeeper it just doesn’t get any better. Blackwood’s piece in this series was a relevation because it was excellent in three out of four games and was one of the best goalkeepers in the post -season in above -average rescued goals.

His game was nothing sexy on his game last night. Very few highlight reel parades, which is always a sign of defense and goalkeeper who work together. Blackwood read the piece well and closed the few chances that the stars had applied, and then he surrounded his rebounds well.

His greatest rescue could have been one of his first when he exceeded a Mikko Rantane-One-Timer on the first Dallas PP of the game, which was 0-0. Rantenne didn’t get everything, but Blackwood made life difficult by not giving rantons much to shoot.

There is no real nits for me either. You want your goalkeeper to parades, Blackwood has made them all.

Gabe Landeskog

An obvious answer, right? Landeskog’s effectiveness in his first game was surprising because it looked as sharp as always. This only improved in his second game when he got up a line to accompany Brock Nelson and Val Nichushkin in a second line that completely dominated Dallas. It should be observed all Four lines dominated from Colorado’s four lines, but the Nelson line was the main actor among them.

Landeskog has scored his first goal since the final of the Stanley Cup 2022 when Nelson flew down the ice after the officials wiped the process and the stars changed a free line. It seemed to work in favor of Colorado, because Nelson took up so much speed through the neutral zone that he drove around Stars players and forced the defenders to withdraw instead of trying to keep the petrol.

Nelson used this additional room to find Landeskog, which selected a place and called his shot from the post. It made the game 3-0 and effectively ended the game of the game. The AVS played Dallas and led 2-0, but the energy of this goal triggered a rush of rule, which only stopped when the last buzzer delivered the stars a little graciously.

Landeskog also won an assist for Sam Girard’s third destination to achieve it with 4: 0 when he fought a look at Bichel’s ice skating shoes in front of the network against the huge Lian Bichel and Girard’s shot in Bichels.

In the end, the Avalanche with Gabe Landeskog on the ice had an advantage of 14: 1.

Logan O’Connor

The AVS are five points in the series after victory 4 with 2-2 and their two leading goal scorers. These goal scorers would be Nathan Mackinnon and … this type here. O’Connor started the AVS again when he had bullied Thomas Harley in the Blueline and steel the puck before racing over the ice and grabbed a beautiful short goal.

This goal brought the building to life and gave the stars a preview of their long night. O’Connor’s piece was exceptional throughout when he cited another excellent night of the Valanche -Line line. The actual attempts to shoot are not overwhelming, since O’Connor was only 9:48 a.m. of 5V5 playing out there and Shot attempts prefer the avalanche with 11: 7.

It was the quality that was so impressive in this game when the AVS achieved six chances and three high-Danger chances with O’Connor on the ice and at the same time made it possible to go on a goal. While the main head-to-head matchup for O’Connor was the fourth Dallas, O’Connor and Co. also exceeded the top line of Dallas against each other during their time.

O’Connor was Colorado’s most resistant player outside of Blackwood in the series, but was also a shockingly effective point producer, since the fourth line of the avalanche continues to work. Special love for O’Connors Linemate Parker Kelly, who ended the game with 11 goals. These boys made life again for the stars.

All other?

The numbers in this game are completely wrong, video game numbers. In 50:04 of 5V5 time, the advantages for the AVS are:

• Shot attempts: 87-38
• Goal recordings: 44-16
• Chances: 44-18 (!!!)
• High-Danger chances: 17-6 (!!!)

According to Natural Stat Trick, these 44 goals in the last three post -seeds were the third most frequent and the highest through every game that was decided in regulation. The AVS ended with 4.57 expected goals, also the best of every game that was decided in the regulation in the last three post -seasons. In short, Colorado hit hell from the stars.

Another amazing aspect of it? In the second half, when Nelson made his Wend behind Blackwood to celebrate ice cream, the AVS had 20 goals. Starting with Landeskogs Tor, the AVS scored 14 shots on the goal in the last 6:50 of the second period to go out of a game that won the AVS and exceeded Dallas into one.

If Jake Oettinger was not played brilliantly, the score on the way would have come out of control. The AVS dominated Dallas so thoroughly that the Star head coach Pete Deboer pulled Oettinger after the second half because he thought he could just as well rest his star goalkeeper because the team had passed over.

It was a top-to-Bottom demonstration. All four avalanche lines end up with the Landeskog-Nelson-Nichushkin line over 60%. These are the types of numbers that we saw in the three-member monster days from Landeskog-Mackinnon trantons. It wasn’t even as if the Nelson line was eating the fourth line of Dallas, although this also happened. The AVS had a 7-0 advantage when attempting the fires when the country was out there against roments.

Overall, no single Avalanche player ended in the event of shot failure of 5 against 5 under 50%. This is a pretty rare event, especially in a playoff game.

Duds

discipline

The only big pocke of this game from Colorado’s point of view was the ongoing criminal problem. Ryan Lindgren took two separate penalties in the third period, the first of which only 1:35 came into the last framework. This opened the door for the stars to make a little noise on a comeback attempt, and Dallas had high -quality chances, but could not break through Blackwood.

Colorado was unable to protect the third period in the games 2 and 3, so that the AVS got out of a dominant second period and gave the stars a power game was discouraging. You have to do better work to manage your game and play an intelligent situation hockey. The AVS obviously killed all four punishments, but this unit considers a lot to live for love.

The lack of discipline from The AVS was a frustrating element of this series and something I hope to clean up from tomorrow.

Finn’s finishing of the Finns

There are very few things that you can really “complain” about in this game, but one thing has turned out to me for me. Joel Kiviranta and Artturi Lehkonen played on separate lines and combined for gaudy numbers when they ended the game with 17 shot attempts (11 in the goal), 12 goal opportunities and nine chances with a high Danger. As a reference, the entire Star team only had six high-channel chances at 5V5.

Their combined expected goals ended at 1.7, the stars at 1.24. However, the goals landed at zero.

This is obviously not a big deal, but Lehkonen’s tortpoint problems that have plagued him in the last 15 games of the regular season. His only goal was that wild stepping in game 1. He needs one real The goal, one thing he intentionally achieves. Nathan Mackinnon and Martin Necas contributed last night to create a variety of opportunities for Lehkonen. He has to bury some of them.

AVS Untung Held

Jonathan Drouin, I think?

Drouin was falling into the third line for game 4 and was the only avalanche cat who did not reach 10 minutes of ice age. He didn’t play very well in this series, although I thought he was much better last night and looked more like the player that we often saw in the last two seasons.

Nevertheless, it wasn’t an outstanding night for Drouin, but he made a key game. With the time that was committed to the only power game of the game in Colorado, Drouin won a puck fight along the wall and then turned in writing to protect the puck and protect a pass to Devon Toews back in the petrol. Toews found Mackinnon for the one-timer and the AVS went 2-0 with the goal.

It was the typical combination of smooth playing and seeing that we usually see from Drouin. I hope he is “back” after the last night.