Aarif Deen

I'm doing well, guys.

That's a great, great question.

Look, there's like 15 different ways I can go with that question right now.

It's a loaded question.

I'll try to sum it up as best as I can, and it's as simple as this.

There's about 10 things going wrong with this team right now,

But the two biggest ones are they are not getting the one more save that they need compared to the goalie at the other end.

And now they're very, very hurt, physically injury level hurt.

And when you combine those two things together, you get what's happening in this series where they've lost three one goal games, obviously with empty netters, but they've lost three one goal games in three very, very, very winnable games.

I don't know about everyone, but I do know that, like, you know, I don't know if fans have felt the same way.

I don't know if the coaching staff felt the same way, but myself and other media members here, we have talked about it quite a bit that, you know, if the Avalanche have to ride with Scott Wedgwood, they're going to have to probably play a perfect game in front of him defensively, which they have not done.

That's one of the 10 or 15 things that have gone wrong in this series.

They're not playing great defensively.

But...

from the moment training camp began, not having Mackenzie Blackwood available for day one was kind of like, oh, no, what's going on here?

And then, you know, you get 10 games into the season and Wedgwood's like, you know, 6-1-3 and we're like, oh, what's, this is actually really cool.

And then Blackwood comes back and finds a little bit of a rhythm to the point where it's like, oh, he might play for Team Canada and then he suffers a second injury from

And just never gets that rhythm back.

And it was always in the back of our minds of like, Wedgwood will give you the more consistent play this season.

Blackwood has the higher ceiling.