The Avalanche are skating hard, sacrificing their bodies, mucking it up in front of the net, cycling behind the Red Wing net and skating a country mile to finally get a goal. The Red Wings dance down the ice and make three give and go passes for a pretty goal. In other words, the Avs are killing themselves for goals and Detroit is making them look easy.

My question is how much of this difference is talent and how much is coaching? Would even a healthy Avalanche team be able to click like this Detroit team?

I don’t expect to see any quit in the Avalache but it’s got to be gut wrenching to work your ass off and see your opponent succeed with apparent ease.