Sunday, October 11, 2009

Avalanche v. Blackhawks - Scoring Chances #4

TmPTimeNoteCOLOpponent
COL118:07
5922404155410193239515v5
COL115:26
581016404145113639
5v4
CHI113:37
52225374155410193951885v5
COL112:47
492326274127113639
5v4
COL111:38
581016404127323946
5v4
CHI110:23
151622415255410193951885v5
COL17:06
51016253741420394651825v5
CHI12:13
1037394152
1019253239824v5
CHI12:09Goal1037394152
1019253239824v5
CHI217:55
162225273741511162225395v5
COL217:28
51015283941511162225395v5
COL217:27Goal51015283941511222539825v5
CHI216:21
92227404155439465182885v5
COL214:27
8222326274127333639885v5
COL214:17Goal8222326274127333639885v5
CHI213:47Goal5910404155411162239515v5
CHI212:30
222527283941520253946825v5
CHI212:14
222527283941511202539825v5
CHI210:37
4940415255419333651885v5
CHI210:29
4940415255419333651885v5
CHI29:06
22262741

1025333639883v5
CHI27:35
45233941
719395182884v5
COL26:39
58910164124111622395v5
COL26:20
58910164124111622395v5
COL24:35Goal8923262741453946

5v3
CHI23:53Goal45816404127193239
5v4
CHI318:59
9222541525527163639885v5
CHI315:41
4925415255525333639885v5
COL314:12
492326274127192239
5v4
CHI312:18
525394152551019253951885v5
CHI310:41
8222326274127111622395v5
COL34:47
22273739415527111622395v5
COL33:44
4823264152410193239515v5
COL32:35
4916415255210192532395v5
CHI30:06
82223262741710193239515v5
CHI43:54
2223262741
27363988
4v4
CHI42:24
423264152
2532333951
4v4


#PlayerEVPPSH
4J. LILES17:32244:29212:0101
5B. CLARK9:47632:27212:1801
8W. WOLSKI18:43523:25210:2900
9M. DUCHENE12:14464:28201:5300
10K. CUMISKEY10:02513:16200:2902
15M. HENDRICKS7:32210:00000:3200
16D. TUCKER10:12423:27210:0000
22S. HANNAN21:064100:59002:1500
23M. HEJDUK18:09344:22201:0601
25C. STEWART9:37170:20000:0000
26P. STASTNY17:09344:22200:3600
27K. QUINCEY17:58374:22202:2200
28D. KOCI3:26220:00000:0000
37R. O'REILLY10:42220:06002:5302
39T. GALIARDI12:55330:01003:1603
40M. SVATOS9:26143:14210:0000
41C. ANDERSON49:1011167:56416:1403
52A. FOOTE21:56270:08003:0302
55C. MCLEOD12:24390:14001:4300


PeriodTotalsEVPP5v3 PPSH5v3 SH
1542230000200
27106701100101
3453510000000
4020200000000
Totals1621111641100301

The Avalanche played a better game tonight than their last outing in Nashville, especially in the third period. Although they still had a hard time generating chances in the last period of play (and overtime) at least they were able to prevent the Blackhawks from getting a ton of chances. Another encouraging sign was the play of Hejduk and Stastny at EV who came close to breaking even this game which is a significant improvement. They still need to get better in order for the Avs to have a chance at winning consistently, but they're moving in the right direction.

One guy that stood out to me this game was Ryan O'Reilly. I thought he did a particularly good job killing Chicago's five on three in the second period. He's been used extensively on the PK and has done a pretty good job for the most part. His EV numbers have also been quite good in limited ice time (through four games he's +11 -11 at EV). I'm not a fan of keeping 18 year-olds in the NHL and if it were me making the decisions both he and Duchene would be heading back to junior for another year but I must admit that both of them have had their moments of excitement. In the case of O'Reilly, he's never really looked overmatched either.

One of the interesting undercurrents of this game were the goalie interference calls and non-calls. On Chicago's first goal I thought that Tomas Kopecky definitely needed to be called for goalie interference, but there was no call. Later in the game, the referee blew the whistle to stop play after there had been contact with Anderson. There was no penalty assessed and there was a faceoff in Colorado's defensive zone. Looking at this table of goalie interference calls I do not see what the ref was enforcing. Looking at rule 69.5 which is the closest thing to what the ref actually did, he seems to have put the faceoff in the wrong location as well. I wish that Chicago had scored off that faceoff so that this would be a big deal and the NHL would need to explain the ref's decision because it looks to me like he plain screwed up.

I don't see many Hawks games, so here are three things that surpised me about Chicago: 1. The fans screamed through the entire national anthem. Is that normal? 2. Tomas Kopecky is on their top PP unit. Maybe he's a pump and dump? 3. What the heck was Stan Mikita doing with that awful dance?

The game was also a pretty dirty affair. I had watched the Oilers-Flames tilt the night before where Sheldon Souray was put out with a concussion by a stick to the skate by Jarome Iginla. It was an accident, but the results were awful. Marek Svatos did that exact thing to Brian Campbell this game. Except he clearly did it on purpose. Campbell wasn't injured and Svatos went off for tripping and that was that. This was head coach Pat Quinn after the Oilers-Flames game the other night:

"To poke his feet out and pile on top of him? Somehow they never deal with that crap — and they won’t let the vigilante stuff deal with it somehow. I don’t understand the players of today. If that had happened in the old days, he would have got hit over the head with a stick right after. That’s the way you used to deal with it. Now you can’t touch him. It was a pretty dirty play, in my opinion"


Quinn was fined for those comments by the league. Now, I don't agree with what he said and I don't think it would have stopped Iginla's accidental poke. It probably also would have resulted in Iginla being hunted and potentially injured later in the game. All of that is bad. But one other thing it would have done is put the fear of God into Marek Svatos so that he doesn't pull that kind of crap on purpose.

Another dangerous play last night was Niklas Hjalmarsson's cross-check to the face of Darcy Tucker. Now, it didn't look to me like Hjalmarsson was trying to injure him, but that was very dangerous use of his stick. If Tucker is out with a concussion, Hjalmarsson is getting a significant suspension. As it is, the league won't be doing anything. And that's the reason Pat Quinn is so frustrated. I don't really blame him either.

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