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Let's move to some keys to victory and I'll stay with you, Stefano
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How are the Avalanche going to get through the stars and make it to the Western Conference final here
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For me, I think it's got to be their key to speed and aggressiveness. I think this is going to be a complete flip flop from the Vega side
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of their style and tact that Dallas have seen throughout the seven games. I think if the Avs can get early on with McKinnon and McCarn
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and continue this fast paced action and really put the pressure on Ottinger
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it's going to need to come early. If they start slow again in game one and aren't able to defend well
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and Georgiev can't continue well and it's a back to uphill climb, this can go very one sided for Dallas
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But I think if they continue that speed and what we saw with constant zone
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pressure, continue with the special teams, which has been looked really good
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We need to get on your office game as soon as possible, which isn't going to be easy with the players mentioned defensively
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but it's going to be a key issue come game one. Jacob, what about you for for the stars
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Are they I mean, like you said, they're on a bit of a roll here. They only lost once in the last
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What is it? Would be five games. So how are they going to continue this against the against the Avs
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I feel like I'm stealing his answer at this point, because it's all it's almost identical thing, right
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But but but honestly, no, it really is getting to the goaltender as quick as possible, because if you can get on top of Georgiev
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as fast as you can, you can get the the goal first. The as soon as you can get the goal first, that's how the stars really
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really can perfect their style of play. That's how they can really get to their shutdown mode as fast as possible
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Get the first goal, get that second goal. Once they're up one, nothing to nothing
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then they can really start to get that shutdown mode going. They don't have to score five, six goals
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They're not the Edmonton Oilers. They don't have to play like that. They can get to those one, two, maybe even three goal games
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And then they're really in a vice grip type situation where they can just suffocate everything and just keep everything to the outside
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keep everything, just chip it right back out over the blue line. And then they're just frustrating everything that the avalanche
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can probably conjure up. Nathan McKinnon's speed doesn't mean a darn thing
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if all he's doing is circling around over the blue line. It doesn't matter what he wants to do if he's all if all he's doing
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is spinning in circles. It doesn't matter even a little bit. So but that's where the stars excel
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So get to Georgiev quick, get that first goal. That's really the key part to winning this type of a series
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is you got to get on top of them fast and then shut them down
