AVS WIN! AVS WIN!
What everyone thought would be an offensive free-for-all ends up being a defensive slugfest. Avs win 1-0. Giguere with the well-earned shutout (shots were 34-14!) but most of that was the result of the Avs taking too many penalties. For the most part I thought the Avs had a pretty good defensive effort.
Nate Guenin has been fantastic for the Avs so far. He's like Ryan O'Byrne with actual smarts and talent. Thankfully the ref called Jokinen on that horrible dive.
Usually Roy uses Landy-Stazz-Tangs as his shutdown unit, but this time he sent out his top line of O'Reilly-Duchene-Downie against Crosby and Stastny's line out against Malkin. It appeared to work--neither really got a lot going.
MacKinnon wasn't very noticeable this game. He's getting into a bad habit of staying on the perimeter--his points came from digging around in the corners and getting passes to the middle. Needs to get that part of his game back on track.