The Avalanche put the NHL on NOTICE...

The colorado avalanche put the nhl on notice after a statement win at home with a franchise record eight goals against the la kings and nathan mckinnon of course finished it off with the brawl we all saw all over twitter last night so the abs absolutely dominated last night there were some aspects where they really weren't but for the most part i loved almost everything i saw from the but first as always don't forget to subscribe 80 of you are currently not subscribed it's completely free and you get daily updates on the colorado avalanche all right let's get right into it so last night was the first game for rookie t.j hughes took the bucket list lap around the ice for his first nhl game and he may not have shown up on the scorecard but i think he did not disappoint i love the grit i saw from the kid he had some hits in there i think he had two hits he had a couple near missed shots he had a lot of great opportunities just wasn't able to capitalize i think t.j hughes may be here to stay depending on what happens once we get laurelle and logan o'connor back in the lineup so let's take a gander at the scorecard from last night let's make this a little bit bigger so everyone can see so leckin and it was the top guy on there with a 3.02 brock nelson slightly behind him brock nelson with a 3.9 last night parker kelly jayden schwartz both with a 2.44 nick law nathan mckinnon nazem cadre everybody was in the positives apart from svetchkov hughes and noah juleson i'll say hughes was mostly in the negative just because he happened to be on that top power play unit that had the two shorthanded goals against and he was also on the ice for one of the even strength goals he was a minus three for the night i would have realistically only given him minus one because none of these shorthanded goals were his fault most of those were on mccarr or martin machis mccarr didn't look perfect in his first game back but i think he's starting to get to form in the latter the seventh goal that was scored in that up at the doorstep so pretty interesting game i'm not gonna lie to you mostly because we solved one problem but we created another problem last season was the special teams was absolutely abysmal this time around special teams was fantastic four for five on the power play i don't even remember the last time that we scored four power play goals in one game but we did it and three of them were by the second unit it wasn't even the top line that did a lot of things the top line only scored in a five on three opportunity while the second unit scored all theirs in five on four situations so last season the colorado avalanche scored two power plays last season where nathan mckinnon was not on the ice and one came in a game where he did not play in in february the already got three so they got three of them tonight all three this is the last time they scored a three plus power play goals was october 28th against the devils and march 30th against the flames it only happened twice last season and they have three and two periods tonight that was in the middle of the game but the abs got three goals on the power play without mckinnon on the ice already beating last year's total they have gotten almost the equivalent of 10 percent of power play goals they got from last season in game one out of 84 this could be if trends keep going this direction this could be one of the best power play units we've had in a long time especially if we can keep up the incredible 80 percent that we currently have currently leading the nhl right now although there has only been a few games in the league right now as you can see in the scrolling bar at the bottom a lot of points from as players yesterday a lot of players with multiple points last night here's all the players that had multi-point games we have brock nelson with three points parker kelly with two nathan mckinnon with the two goals lacking in with two goals schwartz with two assists nazem khadri with two assists tase with two assists and kale mccarr with two assists i think it was a pretty well put together offensive game by the abs now we got to flip to the other side the defense in that game i think is probably some of the weakest defense i've seen from our team in quite a bit now if the offense can keep performing like they do which doesn't always happen against every team but if the offense can keep performing then the defense isn't going to need to be that stellar but they definitely need to lock it up a little better especially if we're running a seven defenseman game i figured our defense would be a little bit better considering we have 11 forwards instead of 12 so we are running with seven defense when we had jouleson in there we only had nick waugh and parker kelly listed on the fourth line due to logan o'connor and laurel being out but the offense was the one that outperformed everything another thing that was a big issue let's look at this stat line last night from mackenzie blackwood mackenzie blackwood stat line from last night was not great mackenzie blackwood gave up four goals over 60 minutes two of them were shorthanded 27 saves on 31 shots if he's really been fighting for a number one goaltender spot i don't know if exactly if i'm too inspired by how he played last night those shorthanded goals apart from the two-on-one opportunity the other one was kind of a high slot shot that wasn't screened at all and he just kind went under his glove just kind of missed it he didn't even get a piece of it i think that's something i've always noticed with blackwood is he's not always the greatest at catching the puck with his glove he's great at centering himself and getting his body in front of it but i don't know using the glove hasn't always been his specialty one thing that i thought was really interesting about last night is the defense was really soft and there was a lot of breakaway opportunities on blackwood now the craziest thing about that being is the kings didn't score any of their goals on those breakaways all the goals came on two-on-one opportunities or screamed shots i thought it was a pretty interesting method of goaltending there because he just i mean he didn't give up the goals that he was supposed to but didn't save the ones that he was supposed to it was just really backwards from what i saw i think this next game we may see wedgewood because bednar has talked about how there is not a set goaltender number one on the team yet they're going to be one a and one b until one emerges as the true starter last season that was more scott wedgwood's category but blackwood is supposed to be in the best shape of his life so i expect him to turn things up a little bit i was a little disappointed that we gave up four goals to the la kings of all teams even though they didn't get a little better offensively they really didn't hurt us at all in the playoffs last year another thing that was interesting was that the offense performed so well for against a team that is supposed to be known for their lock for locking up the middle of the ice and being good on defense and we put eight goals on for darcy kemper who had was left in for the whole game i think darcy kemper should have been pulled after six maybe the kings could have saved themselves a couple of goals their goals there but i don't think anything was stopping the ass after mckinnon fired up the team with the fight with six minutes remaining in the third period unfortunately mckinnon took himself out of that game was unable to get the hat trick there all right let's look at some things that we have to talk about uh during the game so t.j hughes did get a penalty but i love but from jesse montano he said i love that from t.j hughes he didn't like the hit on the car and he went in and gave a couple shots to the king's defenseman he got called for roughing which i thought was super weak but officials always call the retaliation so those of you who didn't see kale mccarr was on a breakaway puck kind of rolled on him and he got dumped into the boards by brent clark which also may have been what set off nathan mckinnon later on in the game brent clark kind of cross-checked mccarr high and he slid into the boards t.j hughes came by gave him a couple whacks and then before mccarr got up and skated mccarr also gave him a punch so brent clark got a little bit of feistiness from everyone on the abs lineup and brent clark answered the bell took the fight with mckinnon got dumped mckinnon threw his helmet i think it was the most electric thing about the opening game of the season it was a lot of fun hey if you were there for the live stream last night i basically got to be a boxing commentator for 30 seconds that was a lot of fun but hey if you don't want to miss out on those moments make sure that you tune in for future live streams we'll keep you updated on the channel i believe i probably will be doing the next game as well since it is a home game against the rival st louis blues but another thing that was pretty disparaging last night was the abs are winning right now but their even strength play was not great i wasn't entirely happy by the even strength play especially from the top lines bottom lines did pretty good i think nick waugh he had one of the grittiest goals of the season already i mean jayden schwartz got dumped into the net the puck was loose and nick waugh was able to flip it over the back of darcy kemper into the goal kings kind of wanted a call for interference but their own guy pushed jayden schwartz into the net not much they could do about that i think the even strength has definitely got to clean it up i think that'll happen once we get 12 forwards and we move away from the seven defensemen noah juleson wasn't bad but i didn't necessarily love his play last night so i'm really looking forward to getting back logan o'connor or zachary roux all right let's do a few cleanups so here was a wrap-up after the game from adrian hernandez he said blackwood was good but not great he got beat from distance on two shorthanded goals against tj showed confidence offensively but was adrift at times on d defense is always going to be the toughest thing to teach a rookie who is not a teaching defense to a forward is always the thing that starts to come with experience so i'm not too entirely worried about tj hughes i think it will develop more as he plays four power play goals is great but two shorthanded goals against is not so much we led the nhl last year and shorthanded goals given up i really don't want a repeat of that this next year but pretty interesting this uh for the game last night the avs gave up two shorthanded scored four so six goals were scored on five as our place but the penalty kill was great the penalty kill did not give up a goal to the la kings so very interesting that the la kings are more dominant when there's less people on the ice one more thing just to wrap up tj hughes was asked why he wears number 13 and he has he loved watching pavel datsuk and mike camilleri datsuk is datsuk magic hand self-explanatory and camilleri i liked watching him on the habs great goal scorer and yes he has always worn number 13 so those of you who are a little heartbroken from the fact that he is wearing nichushkin's old number i know everyone misses nichushkin but that's why he wears 13 it's not like we're going to retire nichushkin's number we didn't really get much with him we did get a stanley cut but we did have a lot of other issues with him not like he was going to stick very long one more thing let's look at the box score box score from the game last night so here is the box score from last night a lot of abs on the score sheet there was only five players at the bottom that did not register a point and that was malinsky hughes spechkov julesen and kulak malinsky didn't play as much as i was kind of hoped him to but i think he'll get more in once we move away move back to 6 and 12 but points for everybody but those five i think it was an impressive night for the abs and of course yet again most goals by the abs in a home opener in their franchise history i always love it when we break records i think it's fantastic for the team and i think it's so exciting that we get to go into this year already having an electric start let's keep it going and let's stay undefeated as long as possible thank you very much for watching i look forward to the next game with y'all we'll keep you updated on future videos with avalanche digest yet again don't forget to subscribe thank you very much we'll see you in the next one