The Avs depend an absurd amount on the wonder trio of Landeskog - Mackinnon - Rantanen. If you can shut that trio down then you should be good, otherwise they will score like 2-3 goals on you. It's why the Avs are so good at home but bad away from it, those three can feast on favorable matchups thanks to Bednar but once you have a really good shutdown line on them, they often disappear entirely.
Bednar seems to also have a mentality similar to Gulutzan's where he will play his top line against the other team's 1st or 2nd lines, trusting his bottom 6 to at least hold their own against the opposition's. So ironically it might still be Wonder Trio against 3M, as I don't think he wants to play with fire by sending them out vs the red-hot Monahan line... who has been scoring like absolute mad on the road as well.
Let's hope Bednar is fooled that last night is 3M's normal performance and not an outlier, and that 3M have collectively pulled their heads out of their asses this morning.
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