Aarif Dean

Maybe just John Hines can't measure up to that.

They're as advertised physically.

They're as advertised in the sense that some guy named Quinn Hughes and Brock Faber, the offense comes from the defense.

If those guys aren't moving the puck, then they just don't have the offensive potential.

firepower that the Avalanche do.

But, you know, that's the biggest issue.

Like, the Avalanche have the games where Kel McCarr, Sam Malinsky, Devontaeves dominate, and that's what drives their offense, similar to what Minnesota's game is.

But then they also have the games where Sam Malinsky is a late scratch for an upper body injury.

uh, Devon Taves and Kel McCarr play 28 and 26 minutes because they've got a lot of guys in the lineup that they probably don't want in the lineup.

Um, but no need because Nathan McKinnon, Marty Mates, Gabe Landis, Scott Valen, Latrusha, and Brock Nelson.

That's what would just go down the list.

Like that was always going to be the big difference in this series.

And, and, and that's what it is.

So it's, it's hard to say underwhelmed.

But at the same time, I kind of came into the series and I was talking to somebody off the record.

I was like, this series will be 3-1 after game four.

However we get there is how we're going to get there.

I just don't think Minnesota is as close to Colorado as people think.