Avs @ Leafs - Dec. 11th, 7:00pm - SN, Fan 590

[CarltonTheBear]

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10-15-1, 21 points | 11-10-5, 27 points

Projected Lines

Duchene-Mitchell-Rantanen Bourque-MacKinnon-Comeau Landeskog-Soderberg-Grigorenko Martinsen-Colborne-Iginla Zadorov-Barrie Beauchemin-Goloubef Tyutin-Wiercioch Varlamov ​

Komarov-Kadri-Brown JVR-Bozak-Marner Hyman-Matthews-Nylander Martin-Smith-Soshnikov Rielly-Zaitsev Gardiner-Carrick Hunwick-Polak Bibeau​

Scratches

Eric Gelinas Cody McLeod ​

Frank Corrado Martin Marincin Josh Leivo​

Game Notes

COL
?Varlamov (5-12-0, 3.34 GAA, .897 Sv%) likely starts, he had a .625 Sv% in 32:48 minutes of action last night
?The Avs are of course coming off an embarrassing 10-1 loss last night against Montreal
?I'm not sure if there will be line shuffling after their last game, but their current lines are something else. John '1C' Mitchell cleared waivers about a month ago
?Remember when Colorado traded ROR because they had too many centres?
?Colorado is currently last in the league

TOR
?Bibeau is poised to make his first career NHL start
?Babcock confirmed that Carrick will replace Marincin, who left last nights game early
?He also confirmed that Nylander will play with Matthews
?Leivo will remain out

Injuries

?Erik Johnson - Leg - Injured Reserve​

?Nathan Horton - Back - Out indefinitely ?Joffrey Lupul - ?\_(ツ)_/? - Out indefinitely ?Stephane Robidas - Old - Out indefinitely ?Marincin - Undisclosed - Out Sunday​

Stream Options

https://www.reddit.com/r/NHLstreams
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[TBLeafer]

Hey look, Corrado has company.

 

[Kin]

Admittedly I'm not watching Avs games so I can't speak to defensive responsibilities but Duchene is a good faceoff guy and has been taking them this year. So the extent to which he's a winger is, at least, somewhat blurred.

 

[L K]

Admittedly I'm not watching Avs games so I can't speak to defensive responsibilities but Duchene is a good faceoff guy and has been taking them this year. So the extent to which he's a winger is, at least, somewhat blurred.

The kind of errors that didn't happen when herman was in charge.

Thanks for the hard work.

 

[Kin]

The kind of errors that didn't happen when herman was in charge.

Thanks for the hard work.

I'm not saying CtB is wrong exactly. The Avs may be shuffling Duchene between the wing and center or he may be taking some draws and then playing the wing(he's taking about 9 draws a game, whereas someone like Bozak is taking 16 per).

I'm just saying that the Avs do have two pretty good C's in Mackinnon/Duchene. They very well might not be using them in that way though. 

 

[CarltonTheBear]

I'm just saying that the Avs do have two pretty good C's in Mackinnon/Duchene. They very well might not be using them in that way though. 

Yeah, that was more-so my point. Duchene certainly hasn't been fully converted to a winger but I've seen line-ups from Colorado all season long and he's often been listed as the winger. I've found that very strange.

 

[dappleganger]

FWIW Duchene was on the wing last game.

 

[disco]

Hopefully tonight will be the start of locking down that back-up position for the Biebs. One solid performance and he's almost there.

 

[freer]

We have not been very good on the second half of back to back.

COL, had there asses handed to them last night. I think it is going to be high scoring game. I hope that the Leafs can win

Go leafs Go

 

[L K]

The kind of errors that didn't happen when herman was in charge.

Thanks for the hard work.

I'm not saying CtB is wrong exactly. The Avs may be shuffling Duchene between the wing and center or he may be taking some draws and then playing the wing(he's taking about 9 draws a game, whereas someone like Bozak is taking 16 per).

I'm just saying that the Avs do have two pretty good C's in Mackinnon/Duchene. They very well might not be using them in that way though.

Just to be clear, I was just joking.  The first comment, not the appreciation comment, that was sincere.

I agree with your point on Duchene.  I think he's underutilized playing on the wing.  It's also strange to see John Mitchell as your "#1" center.  Particularly with his rocking 1 point (1 goal) in 21 games this year.

 

[puckinthehead]

These two lines are killer good.

JVR-Bozak-Marner
Hyman-Matthews-Nylander

Hope Bibeau has a good first game, give the team a reason to play for him. We need a good back-up.

 

[Kaberle15]

Avs should be fire up after that 10-1 Loss.

Hopping for a Bibeau win. Go Kids Go!

 

[Arn]

So do we all have Bibeau Fever then?

(Sorry. Someone had to say it)

 

[CarltonTheBear]

FWIW Duchene was on the wing last game.

Haha in your face LK!

 

[L K]

FWIW Duchene was on the wing last game.

Haha in your face LK!

What, are we operating on facts now?  Duchene may have played on the wing last night, but I feel that he didn't.

 

[Highlander]

Go Bibeau, lets hope you are the back up and step up man we have been looking for.

Win this one for Larry, an old friend and Notre Dame guy who died last night. Used to play with Joe the Throw.

 

[WhatIfGodWasALeaf]

Noted first line pivot John Mitchell.

 

[Beowulf]

It really sucks that Iginla's 1500th game was probably one of if not the worst loss he's ever been a part of.

 

[WhatIfGodWasALeaf]

For all the stream hounds, the game is free on NHL.com.

 

[L K]

I miss the days when the anthem wasn't a pop show.