The difference between a team focusing on getting to the playoffs and a team focusing on getting the cup.

Some teams just don't have the extra gear in the postseason. All year long Winnipeg looks strong defensively and Hellebuyck looks as good as he ever has. Then Colorado just comes in and fills the net on repeat.

We’re not realizing how good the avalanche offense is

This series just showed how dangerous the avs are

As an Avs fan I can say Colorado learned what Tampa did when they went back to back about the regular season. The effort wasn't always there in the regular season, that was also the case with those Tampa teams (they won the Presidents trophy the year before winning, and got swept in round 1. They didn't win their division either of the cup winning years by conserving energy (and cap space with LTIR.) Colorado really responded to the playoff atmosphere maybe not immediately, but by the end of Game 1 when the "Pull your goalie" chants rained down on Georgiev, the entire team took that personally and not only wanted to win, but crush those Winnipeg fans. As an Avs fan, I thank the Jets fans for motivating the team in a unique way, you don't score 29 goals in 5 games against the best defense/goalie in the NHL regular season on accident, and I think you guys really got us rolling to a point where we're playing the right way at the right time. Go Avs Go!

Why is everybody talking about Winnipeg? What about how lights out the Avs played. The last 4 games (forget game 1), the Avs were unstoppable!! They averaged 5 goals on the NHL's best defense and goalie! And they did this while play great team defense! Our goaltender played great (again, except game 1) and our whole team skated hard to puck in all three zones (except a bit in Game 5). I don't get why everyone isn't talking about how the whole avalanche team...all four lines...were elite and if they continue to play this way could be unstoppable. Where is the love?

As an Avalanche fan, i am very happy with how it turned out. Every Sports broadcaster we're talking up the jets so much saying they had better defense and Basically saying they were gonna win. glad their words came back to bite them.

First, I love Hellebuyck, even as an Avs fan, I think he's just a great goaltender. The problem the Jets had is one the Avs fans are all too familiar with. Jets players thought they were just the better team going into this series. They outplayed the Avs so much in the regular season that they didn't respect them going into the post season, and frankly, they got sloppy. Avs did it a couple years in the second round, where they just thought they were the best, and got sloppy. The number of times WPG players were out of position, lost coverage on their assignments, or just did the laziest passing was just disrespectful. The Avs still have a cup winning core, who know what it takes to win, and will exploit every mistake you make and turn it into a goal... that time the Jets won 7-0 in Denver didn't scare the Avs core, it reminded them that nothing can be taken for granted. The Jets are a fantastic team, but a ton of their problems, including hanging Hellebuyck out to dry a bunch of times, were subsequent to them just not being in the game mentally.

Late season Avs compared to post season Avs. Big difference. The Jets didn't blow it. The Avs were just better.

As an Avs fan I can't help but revel in the pure poetry that in game 1 of this series Jets fans were chanting "pull your goalie" only to get 28 goals hung up on them in 5 games. It was a well fought series in the end but Georgiev adjusted quickly, Nichushkin is back, and Makar & MacKinnon are playoff monsters.

As a Jets fan, how the fuck did we go from a solid D-core to AHL level? I miss the 2018 team so much.

Jets' fan here. I liked this video. Liked your perspective on the Series. Thanks. I wish that we had gone further but, I have to say, if Colorado can keep up with this level of play that they tapped into, they might very well be in the Stanley Cup finals. Good luck to them! 😀

The Avs played at a pace & intensity level the Jets struggled to match & deal with.

The Jets ran into a team that is so good offensively they can outscore most of their mistakes. They have all 4 lines contributing on the score board consistently and having Makar as the rock on defense only makes them that much harder to beat. Goaltending is really the only spot that they are soft and even there they get big performances regularly. The Avs were not "working to make the playoffs" at the end of the regular season, they were working to win the cup. When the puck dropped on game one, they shifted into go mode. They lost game 1 sure, but they scored 5+ goals on the best goalie in the NHL this season. They did that in all 5 games, only the 4th time in NHL history that has happened in a series. The Jets defense had no answer when it came to trying to contain all of the scoring threats the Avs have. The jets have a good core and just need to build on it.

People were booing Pionk because he has been a disasterpiece in the dcorps. Contributing to being eliminated was the icing on the cake. A lot of fault also comes from Rick Bowness ability (or lack thereof) to adapt. He says he coaches by feel, instead of looking at the game ahead. When Colorado made changes to the lines and strategy, Bowness just gambled on the same system to work, and when it didn't, he just gambled again until we ended up 3-1, getting embarassed in the process as well. He made some good adaptive changes for game 5 (Dressing Perfetti and Miller, taking out Stanley, Ehlers with Scheifele and Vilardi) and it started to look good, it looked doable for 40 minutes, but then reverted them in the third period where they got hemmed in again like the other 4 games of the playoffs. This Jets team is a real threat but when you can sit down and draft a better plan for the next game, the way Colorado did, the coaching staff is exposed as being the weakest link in the chain.

As a Jets fan I was really worried after game one when we couldn't hold a 3 goal lead. It showed the intensity and threat the Avs truly were and brought to light that Jets were unable or unwilling to follow the gameplan that brought them so much success through the season. I feel like our defense core was not backchecked to that level through most of the season. It showed the cracks as I only ever felt confident when Morrisey had the puck in our end as he was the only one I felt confident to carry it or actually complete a first pass. Additionally, looking at the our bench when the lead took a turn the Avs way was never reassuring. Our game breaker was Big Buff, he could make a play, hit, or scrum that could give us big momentum shifts. Right now I don't think we have anyone that can be a game breaker. Love the team, wish the Avs the best, and hope we can find some answers as we prepare for next season. Please.....please beat the Knights if they make it through.

I was at the game last night, some people were booing Pionk. I don’t care how bad your team plays, you should never boo your own players. Not like he intended to put it in his own net.

Georgie response to pull the goalie in Winnipeg was hold my beer and watch this shit

Was at Game 2 in Winnipeg. It was EASY to tell that we were not even close to being on par with them. Congrats Avs and your fans. Helly needed to be ALOT better

YOU can think you made all the right moves to become a playoff contender and then run into a buzzsaw of a team . That's how I see it . Colorado has won a cup and knows what it takes to get there and knows when to time to go into playoff mode .

Look, I get why people in Winnipeg are frustrated, but the Avs went through several years of disappointment and coming up way short of where they should have. Sometimes teams have to go through this before they can learn how to win in the playoffs. As an Avs fan, I think Winnipeg has a bright future. Obviously they have a really good team. Maybe this loss is great motivation for them next year. Avs are a wagon and know how to play at another level but that takes time and lots of disappointment before it comes together

As a Jets fan who was at all three of the home games, the whole thing comes down to something pretty simple for me. The Jets and Avs play two very different styles of hockey; Winnipeg has a tight, defensive make-you-pay-for-your-mistakes game that was the reason we allowed the fewest goals in the regular season. Colorado plays the track meet; they know they don't have an elite goalie, but they do have elite scoring (2 or even 3 of the top 5 in the sport, depending on who you ask), so they play fast, loose, and aggressive. All five games of this series, the Avs forced the Jets to play their style of hockey, and frankly, the Avs are just better at it. The Jets got sloppy trying to play like the Avs do because it's not what they were built on. It's a miracle the Jets won even one game playing that way. I remember hearing on the radio that one of the Avs (McKinnon?) said after Game 1 or 2 they were going to be happy to win 2-1 because the Jets were so good defensively. The Avs were never going to win any games 2-1. Any tight, low-scoring games this series would have gone to Winnipeg, but there weren't any. The series was 4-1, but in terms of who got to decide the pace of play, the Avs won 5-0

Best offense vs best defense? Looks like the unstoppable force beats the immovable object.

Couple things: the whiteout crowd mocking Georgiev at the end of game 1 woke up the sleeping giant and they took it personally. Can’t be giving teams that kind of bulletin board material at the beginning of a series. Secondly, Winnipeg is just way too slow to keep up with the avs’ uptempo attack. They need to get multiple massive upgrades on the backend to compete with the rest of the west

The wolf on that goalie helmet is pretty dope ngl

Sure the Jets weren't completely at the level they should've been, but it was honestly just how well Colorado played that made this happen. I'm from Winnipeg, so I'm sad, but my second favourite team are the Avs so I'm not completely devastated. At least we might have something good to look forward to next year with how this years regular season went.

Every series loss is brutal. I have never heard a player or fan describe a loss as magnificent. This one is just the freshest.

Your video is all about “aww poor jets” instead of highlighting how absolutely dominant the avs were.

Too harsh. The goalie faced almost 80 shots from perhaps the best overall roster in hockey. Rewatching his play, he was doing everything right. The Avalanche are just that good.

I don't even think the Jets played that bad, I think Avs are just that good. Could see them winnning the cup with Georgiev being the unstoppable goalies this year

McKinnon is just incredible!

Avs found a gear I literally didn't know was humanly possible, if they keep playing like this, they'll be the cup champs

After watching every game, I noticed a pattern. Avs would be circling the wagons in the Jets own zone, but they were blocking shots and not allowing too many scoring chances. However, the Avs offense was like COD zombies and came in WAVES. That seemed to wear out the Jets defense. I'm surprised people aren't talking more about the offense slump. Like, where was Connor, Ehlers, and Scheifele in the last 3 games?? 7 goals in game 1, but only 1 in a must win game 4?? Brutal...

Avs offense is just absolutely unbelievable too.. This will be a trend for most good tendies facing them this postseason. Crazy they're so dominant without the Captain for 2 years.

Hockey players are human. The jets were fatigued by the pressure and the avalanche know how to pace themselves towards the end of the season and get geared up for the playoffs. That’s why the 7-0 happened and then this series. Playin hockey in Canada is a different animal. The pressure is more intense because hockey is the most popular by far. The American teams have other sports to keep their fan base occupied and hockey is always on the back burner compared to the other sports.

My take is that it will be easier to assess this series for the Jets a little further down the road. What I watched was an Avs team that was just better than the Jets and looked better than they did at any point during the regular season and did it consistently for five games even though they lost game one. So the reason for assessing further down the road is that if the Avs truly were only giving 80% for the most part during the season and come out and dominate future series opponents, might be less of “Jets played poorly” and more “Everyone ran into a juggernaut”.

Winnipeg doesn't need to change anything on the team, just get their fans to not chant "pull your goalie" in the first game! Seemed to energize the Avs

I don't think you can be too hard on the Jets here tbh, sometimes you just run into a woodchipper that doesn't stop. The Avs are one of those teams this year.

Maybe Jets fans should not chant 'Pull the goalie!' after the first game next season.

What happens in the regular season, stays in the regular season. Jets fans should know that Colorado has that second, and even third gear when the playoffs come. You just saw 2nd gear.

Lifelong Avs fan here, team is simply built different. People are gonna blame the keeper but as we get farther into the playoffs everyone will realize “it was just the Avs”. Round 2 will be a challenge regardless of opponent, but if they win round 2, they’re making the cup final no doubt

Mackinnon and makar are just soooooo good

I'm honestly surprised at this series, as an Avs fan I did not wanna play the Jets in round 1, they were dominant on us all season, but Im glad to see the Avs prevail in this series!!! GO AVS!!!!

Nichushkin was absolutely dominant the entire series. Most people have not even heard of him but he’s got to be the most underrated player in the league.

The playoffs are a different beast. I would argue the Avs coasted the last 10 games of the regular season. I’m sure it’s been said in the comments but the difference is the Avs know what it takes to win in the postseason. The Jets do not, having suffered the same fate last year.

That is a tough loss, but keep your heads up Jets fans!! You guys have a great future ahead! I’m a leafs fan so not much for us!

I think game 1 was an indication of how the series would go. Georgiev was letting in softies and the avs were scoring legit goals.

I think the jets also got a bad hand dealt. Not saying they don’t have more work to do, but when Colorado is playing good hockey, they’re arguably the best team in the league. ESPECIALLY when georgiev is actually holding his own

this is the definition of a blowout. 8 Colorado players had 5 or more points after this. Winnipeg had 2.

Jets absolutely got their wings clipped this series.

The own goal was Pionk's fault. It happened so fast that you could only see it through replay. The wrister got deflected from a stick into Pionk to the goal. It's just the fans that think it was his fault.

THE AVS ROSTER LITERALLY HAS THE PLAYOFF EXPERIENCE VS JETS......ALSO THE AVS ARE A HUNGRIER TEAM

I live in Northern California, and would like to root for the Sharks, but they SUCK SO MUCH that I have to look to teams who play hockey the way I like to watch and appreciate. So I can't help but root for the Avs, the Oil, and this year, the Canucks, who have really shown me something. I'm as surprised as anyone about the epic playoff fail of the Jets, who looked to me like a complete team this season.

I think Colorado is winning the cup this year. If that happens it would be 2 straight years of getting knocked by the stanely cup winner in the 1st round. It's a tough break.

As an avs fan im obviously happy. But props to the jets for playing clean. MUCH RESPECT

Let's not kid ourselves here, this series was never headed back to Denver for a game 6. Avs scored at will. Series over💪🏻

The Jets need more scorers. Nate Mac had almost twice as many points as the highest Jets.

Blues fan here but love the jets. Feels like you have the offensive depth and a passionate coach. Only way you move forward is upgrading your defensive depth. With Demelo and Dillon coming off the books you need to find out what that d cores vision moving forward is. Also stop playing Hellebuyck 60 games a season. You had a great back up and I think you can find another solid one. Play Hellebuyck 50 games, 55 max, during the season. Keep him well rested and upgrade at D he should be lights out.

All i know is this is going to be a savage playoffs. Colorado vs. dallas or vegas lol

And this kids is why you don’t piss off the hockey gods.

Good thing the Jets had such a great record to end the season, it sure helped them out in round 1...

As an Avs fan who's been watching NHL Hockey since the 1970's, The Avs ARE JUST THAT GOOD! Sorry Winnipeg. You ran into a Buzz Saw.

Colorado made some changes to their lineup that was designed to disrupt a teams core. Their 4th line, with Duhaime and Trenin are meant to physically and mentally make the night hell for the other team. Gets them hurt, tired, and frustrated. So you end up by the end of Game 1: No one wants to play against the 4th line, and no one wants to play against the Mackinnon, Rantenen, Nichushkin line. Avs second line plays like most team's 1st lines, and you have the Colton, Wood line at 3rd who are just a solid fast offensive line. So best case scenario you're on your back foot trying to defend against a really fast and heavy team trying to capitalize on mistakes. And they don't make many when they get going. I think their core kind of view the regular season as like training almost. All about the Playoffs for them. And it seems they put a team together to help them impose their will on the Playoff context.

We were the stingiest team all season long, but at the same time generated next to no offence. Only a handful of games where the Jets scored 4 or more, and they took that style into the playoffs, where it just doesn't fly. With a huge rush team like the Avs turning it up to 11, the Jets' D fell apart, and Hellebuyck was overworked. Sure, we went like 32 games allowing 3 or fewer, but we were only winning those by 1 or 2 goals. That doesn't translate to a cup-calibre team.

Avs playing like they’re gonna make the finals. Wow. 😳

Woll was a bigger X factor for the Leafs last night than Helly was all series for the Jets. When your goalie has a .7 something save percentage, you can't pin that all on defense and perfect shots

I was at the game and unfortunately yes, Pionk did get booed when he touched the puck immediately after his mistake. It was embarrassing to hear it and made me cringe tbh

Hellebuyck was clearly overworked in the regular season because people came into this series thinking the Jets had a good D core. Turns out it's just Josh Morrissey and a bunch of guys

I'm not surprised at all. The Avs are a dangerous playoff team. I doubt if they make it out of the West but it wouldn't surprise me if they did.

Jets are a great team, so happy it didn't go longer so the AVS can rest up and push for the cup!

Had a good season with nothing to complain about. Getting beat by a team that could go all the way to finals is our 2.0 tradition...

I really wanted the Jets to take this one, but Colorado vs the winner of Dallas Vegas will be interesting

It really is brutal. How can it not be any brutal than this?

Jets need to upgrade the right side of the defense, Pionk and Schmidt are the only two under contract for next season and Pionk is playing higher in the lineup than his play would dictate. They also need a 2C -- Bowness gave up on Perfetti as 2C after three games and while Namestnikov did an ok job in that role, he isn't a 2C. Give Perfetti or Lambert a decent run at 2C or acquire one (I am assuming Monahan leaves).

When the Jets won at the end of the season and in game 1, Georgie was in a major slump. After game 1, he found his game again with the Avalanche reducing the mental mistakes in their own zone as the series progressed. The rest of the Avalanche turned up their intensity as soon as the playoffs started. Rewatch game 1 and look at Makar at the opening puck drop. He looked very intense and ready to go fight for every inch, which represented how the team kept fighting even when their goalie was having an absolute dumpster fire game. They knew that to get past the Jets they would need to put the puck on net none-stop to make Helly move out of position and give up rebounds.

I hate that the Jets seemed to rely on Hellebuyck night in and night out to bail them out all series. He ended up having the worst save percentage out of all goalies playing five games, but he also had the most saves and most shots on goal against him with 177. (Vasilevskiy faced the second-most shots with 156.) You can't expect to win a series if you're hanging your goalie out to dry every game.

1:03 thats so funny and true hahaha

The fact is Hellybuck our best player isn't a playoff player and that sums up the team. He is great in positioning and big but barely moves. Toffoli and Monahan looked like they could barely skate this series. Ehlers was finally healthy for the playoffs and maybe would have been better if he stayed out, cause he is not a playoff player despite being a fan favourite (me included). Poor Pionk isn't the problem. We need a guy like Trouba or Zadorov back there with Dillon. Morrissey also needs a more reliable and bigger partner. We also needed a guy like Proffeti in the lineup since game one. Kyle Connor went quiet after game one. I'd say Lowry, Nino, Scheifs and Vilardi were the best forwards. Overall the team looked lifeless. They never really posed any threat after game 1. Avs have makar and mckinnon and a supporting cast of great players and heart and soul parise and solid D. They won't make it past round 2 because georgiev just isnt good enough, often when the Jets had a decent shot with pressure he was sliding out of position and that glove hand jeezzz. Anyway I didnt see games 2 and 3 so don't crucify me too much in the replys

The Jets put in effort this year because PLD is my problem now. He resides in LA. Dont worry, we will be joining you tonight.

Sometimes a team does all the right trades and still loses. Better luck next year .

If anything, it will show not only the Jets but other teams in the league that the Regular Season means nothing - Getting IN to the playoffs is more important than regular season statistics The Jets were the ONLY team to allow fewer than 200 goals (2.43 GAA) and yet they gave up 28 in 5 playoff games (5.60 GAA) Aside from his agent...do Jets fans really care if Hellebuyck wins the Vezina ?

Jets outscore Avs 17-4 going 3-0 regular season. 13 goal difference. Avs outscore Jets 28-15 postseason gong 4-1. 13 goal difference. Avs 22-7 in games 2-5. Average win by nearly 4 goals. Wow!

That lightning team already had some success in the playoffs going deep. Hard to compare anyone to the lightning, and what a bizarre sweep that Columbus series was.

Jets fan here and while getting eliminated sucks, looking at this season as a whole, we've taken a step in the right direction. The feelings now vs. one year ago (or even 9mon ago) are vastly different - Wpg fans were calling for a start-from-scratch and many thought the Jets would be a train wreck. But a 4th overall finish in the regular season blew those expectations away. I think Helly's great - blaming solely him ignores how good Colorado offence can be and how bad our d-corp were this playoffs. I think strengthening that d-corp should be a priority. And I think the Jets need to work on that resilience, tenacity, & grit in the face of adversity (like how some have talked about Colorado's 2nd or 3rd gear) and its the Jets' vets that would need to lead this. All that said, the credit and congrats should go to Colorado - they played outstanding after game 1 and earned this win.

I was in the building and there were some boos. There was also a lot of lets go pionk and get going buddy because he had an awful season and played with no heart at all. Not many jets players did anyways. also the coaching by rick bowness was pretty bad too lol and he didnt look at the games ahead. Overall we left hellebuyck to dry out but i think he could have came up bigger in game 5. The forwards were out of position and had no skating legs. the d were nowhere to be found at all. Props to scheifele and morrissey and hellebuyck tho they had good seasons and tried hard in the playoffs. Also i know avs fans were mad about the pull ur goalie and the other chants but like eventually people just have to realize that winnipeg is a crappy city and the jets r all we have and them selling in the playoffs every year is frustrating so we just try to have some fun. The avs are an amazing team tho. GO JETS GO

Teams get found out real quick in the playoffs and that's what happened here. Through ups and downs this year, the Avs remain a serious contender.

Trade deadline deals are a myth. It's not about the player, it's about the chemistry. They need to build that chemistry over time not just a couple weeks

Absolutely delightful GoAvsGo

That 7-0 loss Colorado took from Winnipeg in the regular season didn't mean squat. Some hockey pundit (forgot the name) once said "The playoffs are a different beast" and the Avs are clearly more experienced in the post-season. Winnipeg's defeat was inevitable once Georgiev got back to good form after that disastrous Game 1 performance.

I think what surprises me most (and what probably hurts the most) is they won the first game in the series both years.

This is a great video. I too am shocked at what happened. I thought this was going to go to at least 6 games. I don´t think Winnipeg is broken, but obviously there need to be tweaks...and that may need to occur behind the bench.

It actually felt very similar to the Flames vs the Oilers in the second round a few seasons ago. Flames got the hot start, but then the goalie that should have been money in Markstrom failed to dial it in and let doubt creep into the team by the end of the game (even though it was a win), and then that doubt snowballed for the rest of the series. When you spend on an elite goalie, they need to show up if you're going to keep the team rolling properly.

As we both know season ends playoffs begin, it's a new season and players won't look back they will look ahead and will play the best they can for their names will forever be on Lord Stanley, WHAT A HONOR.

"It's Going To Be A Waste Of 8 Days" -- Darryl Sutter * 9 Days this time , should have being 7 *

“They haven’t even seen our team yet” in response to losing the last three regular season games to them

After 57 years as a Leafs fan, you just accept it and “There’s always next year”.

It's unfair for people to come down on Hellebuyck so hard. The Jets had to face the fiercest team in the league and unfortunately they just couldn't keep the Avalanche out of their zone, and they couldn't stop taking penalties. Helle's an outstanding goalie, but he can't be expected to do it all.

@johnny hawkey there were a couple of boos for Pionk when he touched the puck after, but you could hear the majority of fans around respond with 'really??' was only a couple classless fans, not a majority by any means. I'd say most felt pretty bad for the guy, I know I did.

Johnny I’m doing a Calgary franchise mode in your favour , I’m gonna get them a cup

Gretzky said it best, "We knew how to win a cup". Bednar knows how to win Championships.