Which Colorado Avalanche forwards are the best defensive forwards?

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4.5 • 566 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome in to the DMVR Avalanche podcast.
0:06.2	We've got A.J.
0:06.9	We've got Biggie.
0:07.7	We've got Rudo coming to you live on a Tuesday as, you know, defense matters, boys.
0:17.1	So I figured we should talk about it, or at least forwards playing defense.
0:21.9	I want to get into it.
0:23.3	We're going to tier list all of the abs forwards for their defensive acumen and abilities.
0:28.4	But before we jump into that, I want to have a conversation about defense in general, in general, even, and how you value it, how you evaluate it, because I do think,
0:41.6	I don't know that I would say there's a defensive revolution going on. Obviously,
0:47.0	phrases like defense wins championships has been around for forever, but the modern hockey has put
0:53.7	numbers to that, right, in a way that has never happened
0:56.7	before in hockey, where you can look at coursey against, you can look at high danger chances
1:02.7	given up. You can even take that a step further and get into micro stats with things like
1:06.6	exits and entries and puck retrievals and all of these numbers are available to,
1:12.2	maybe not everyone, but you can pay five bucks to get access to advanced stats if you are
1:18.3	a hockey junkie, a hockey nerd like we are. So my question is this. Does defense win championships,
1:27.1	or is offense more important?
1:33.6	I think it's defense.
1:38.2	Goal scoring kind of comes and goes, especially in the postseason when everybody is selling out,
1:43.4	especially in a best of seven, when teams are gearing their plan of attack to a specific opponent and not a regular
1:51.2	season where everybody just kind of like does what they do. And they're not like really like
1:58.1	hardcore game planning for how to how to attack other teams so
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