Don't Take A Knife To A Gunfight: Avalanche 5, Hawks 1

With the shot totals 45 - 40 it was clearly a game in which neither team could be arsed with playing defense, the advantage was certainly with The Avalanche: they can score, The Hawks cannot.  Doubling down, The Avs have a primo goaltender in Varlamov, whereas Anton Forsberg is terrible.  Absolute dogshit.
Yeah, some dumb stuff happened in front of Bergie, like Keith topping passes and Gustafsson, Oesterle and Jurco all making garbage passes when they weren't under any kind of pressure, either turning the puck over or icing the damn thing.
But they put 45 shots on net and only managed one goal.  
We saw some good sequences in the offensive zone in a few games last week, occasions in which they moved the puck quickly and kept their feet moving.  But they didn't do much of that tonight - instead, they stand still, look around, maybe take a shot that gets blocked or lose the thing altogether.  There was a power play in the third period in which three players played catch for 45 seconds, no shots taken, and Colorado eventually cleared their zone.
The most frustrating part of this is that they're capable of more.  We've seen it, but why The Hawks don't bring that all the time is a mystery.  Instead, we get slow, predictable and unimaginative work in the offensive zone, that any team can defend against if they have a pulse.
Yes, the goaltending has been brutal since Crawford went down and yes, The Hawks' defense has been either old and slow or young and dumb too much of the time, but they've got to sort out their inability to score.  Losing 5-1 or 2-1 is a loss any way you slice it.