HardCoreBlue

Three obvious things to me: Clean faceoff (clean being the key word) wins by Avs need to stop. We need to make the Avs pay for their aggressive D play. SM needs to finish. Need to treat this like a regular season third period and good things will happen.

Pionk turnstiled by 29. Jets overall came to play. Middle frame ours for the taking.

Great start overall but with a few horrible giveaways. Down by 1 but way better. We’re in this.

Imho the first 5-7 minutes will tell us everything about how this game will go. Im begging the Jets to dictate early and let the Avs know they are not going to enjoy this game. I think Perfetti checks in at some point this series.

But he’s good for hockey, he’s a character, he’s blah blah blah Nope he’s a thug, a marketing gimmick to get money out of knuckle draggers.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Here, compliments of probably the best offensive defenseman in the league right now, a blueprint for a Jet win tonight: "It's just going to have to be getting better at everything we're doing. Making sure that we play to our strengths," Cale Makar said.

The first 10 minutes, heck the first 5 minutes of this game, will tell us if the Jets commit to dictating how this game will be played for their success. If we see the same pattern as we saw from the first two games and Helle is average, ruh roh.

Maple Leafs Won’t Go Far with Samsonov in Net Story by Rupert McDonald, The Hockey Writers • 46m • 3 min read Pitchforks, knives, switchblades etc being readied for their annual use in Leaf Nation. Not that the Jet Nation is innocent when it comes to this (insert me grabbing my pearls) but hey I just really dislike the Leafs. 🙂 Sorry not sorry?

He was an outstanding broadcaster providing many years of comforting entertainment for us regardless of the team you cheered for.

So I assume Utah will be winning the Stanley Cup next year courtesy of Bettman and company? Wait, they're not an expansion team. Forget it.

Poached from the Hockey Writers (Mark Zlomistic): Avalanche Statistic Jets 58.3% SF 41.7% 59.8% SCF 40.2% 56.8% HDCF 43.2% 65.2% xGF 34.8% Yikes. Need to flip that script in Game 3 please and thank you.

"We know we can be more aggressive as well and definitely not sitting back and giving them too much respect.” There's the blueprint for game 3 success courtesy of Josh Morrissey.

Swayman demonstrating why he’s an elite NHL goaltender in the playoffs.

Yup fortunate yet unfortunate. Fortunate in helping us get to the show then unfortunately fell apart when we needed it the most.

Auston Matthews sneezed at practice today. Numerous articles and tweets incoming from Sportnet personalities and their sources keeping all of us abreast at what this means.

If true how to ruin a reputation in one fell swoop.

I just don't understand the difficulty the Jets are having in bringing consistent high levels of structured intensity to their every shift. Puck battles, forechecking, back checking etc lacks energy that is totally opposite of how the Avs are playing. To me that means lack of preparation, discipline, focus etc. Toffoli didn't seem in the game at all. No energy, disinterested.

I really thought after that huge 4 minute pk then 55’s beauty tap in we were going to take over. Nope.

Yup they’re playing nervous chasing Av players all around the ice.

Jets need to settle the F down and play their hockey. Lots of time. Avs dictating play for the most part making them run around with no structure.

Pk needs to step up.

My armchair qbing is not liking Samberg’s game right now after almost 4 periods. But I’m sure I’m missing something. Win a F’ing faceoff please. Jeebus.

Our pk will need to step up now as things will get evened up.

Colorado D are pinching a lot. We need to make them pay for that.