Artturi Lehkonen

Yeah.

With him and Lehtonen.

And I, I thought, you know, there, there was one moment in the first period where there, there was maybe a bit of an overpass from, from Kadri.

Um, he's almost like forcing it to MacKinnon-

Just not splitting those two guys up just because they, they just feed off each other so well, and it makes the defense have to really keep an eye on two guys that can really bury you.

Yep.

And, and you don't have to do that if it's Nathan MacKinnon with Kadri and, and Lehkonen.

Like you-

Now, TJ Hughes, if you recall, had the hat trick in Denver in the pre-season finale.

But it's still the same, like our Lehtonen, MacKinnon, Natys, Landeskog, Nelson, Kadri top six, very elite for the Colorado Avalanche.

Mm-hmm.

Of course, Cale Makar and Devontae's the, the top defense pairing, but they, they are a handful.

... playing the, uh, the bumper a little bit with, with either Landeskog or Kadri in there, so they've had some different looks.

Frankly, the second unit has had more success.

I mean, Artturi Lehkonen, two power play goals already.

Uh, he's had two power play goals the last two seasons combined, um, for, for Colorado.

Um, if you watch my Tony's Picks NHL Rundown daily videos, I know I mention these, uh, during that video, so I'll just reiterate it.

Artturi Lehkonen's been great to start the season.

Obviously he's playing on the top line for the Colorado Avalanche alongside, uh, Nathan MacKinnon, uh, and Marty Necas.

Uh, he's off to a very solid start so far for this, uh, Avs team.

I think he's had a point in every game so far.

Uh, I think you keep going to that well, no question about it for, uh, uh, for, uh, Artturi Lehkonen, uh, right now.

Uh, you look at the numbers, yeah, he's, he's gotten a point in their two games so far.

Landeskog's gotten a point, uh, in the two games so far for the, uh, Avalanche as well.

He didn't even score a goal in that game, and it didn't matter.

Turri Lehkonen, uh, Lehkonen, I should say, uh, finished with a goal and an assist, while Nicholas Roy and Josh Manson also contributed a goal and an assist.

And Cale Makar scored his first goal of the season.

The top line of Lehkonen, MacKinnon, and Necas combined for eight points in that one.

[laughs] That's absolutely crazy.

Now if it...

Uh, I think there's, there is value with Perfetti here, uh, against the Avs.

Uh, and then for the Avalanche, I'd be looking at Arturi Lehkonen, back-to-back two-point games for him, uh, to start the season.

He's also had success overall, uh, against Winnipeg.

Uh, and then Gabriel Landeskog is also, uh, plus 115 to get a point.

Your three players tied with four goals a piece are Nick Schmaltz in Utah, Evan Bouchard, only because he's a defenseman, you don't expect him to be leading the league in goals, and Paul Cotter.

Uh, and I'll even go down to number four here on the list, Artturi Lehkonen.

Yes, he's part of that Colorado offense, so you expect somebody to produce, but I'm not sure I picked him to be leading his team in goals right now.

So, uh, it'll be interesting to see if any of these kinda transfer over into the rest of the year, or do we get to the point where we're seeing the things we expect, where, you know, we start seeing Kaprizov's name at the top of this list, we saw, start seeing Pastrnak at the top of this list? Uh, so there, there are some surprises early on in the year here.

But anyway, as I was saying, um, Binnington went behind his net to play the puck as if he were Mike Smith, and he tried to just swing it, um, on the other side of the rink.

But Arturi Lehkonen, uh, grabbed that puck, making for a nice gaffe on the TSN blooper reels.

And, uh, Lehkonen, to his credit, did not miss an empty net that Nathan MacKinnon probably might have.

Yeah, maybe.