Tweet There’s a lot of consternation in the Rockies here about what exactly caused the Avs problems this season. A lot of focus is, rightly, on injuries, but most fans recognize that injuries may have driven the season to the depths that it reached, but even healthy this team wasn’t really ready to compete for a playoff spot.And there’s been a lot of focus on why? Who’s to blame?My hypothesis: the Avs just don’t have...
Tweet Don’t let your kids grow idolizing Roberto Luongo. Apparently Luongo was so mentally fragile that, despite training and preparing to be an NHL goaltender his entire career and being exiled to Florida for a good chunk of it, his confidence was shattered so badly after last years playoff loss to the Blackhawks that he would run to the locker room curling up in a corner in darkness cradling his precious Gold Medal that required...
Tweet (This is probably a few days late of the news cycle, still wanted to write it though)I have seen 2 clear sides to the Raffi Torres hit on Brent Seabrook that knocked him out of tonight’s game.Take 1: Raffi Torres targeted an unsuspecting player with a vicious blindside hit to the head Take 2: Raffi Torres tried to use his physicality, an attribute that has helped him make a career playing hockey, to separate...
Tweet Last season, i forgot to set this up, but this season it’s back. The Jibblescribbits playoff pool for 2011. The rules are simple. There are 16 Bins to select players out of, one for every playoff team. Select one player form each bin. You must select at least 4D and 2G, along with 10F. Points are:1pt - Goal1pt - Assist1pt - OT goal3pts - Hat Trick2pt - Win1pt - shutoutIt’s usually best to select...
Tweet I had a bad link to my data for the Draft data yesterday. You should be able to find it here
Tweet Just a couple of additions to my list of things that have happened since the Avs beat anyone but the Blues. The streak is now (Monday 3/14) at 54 games, and will reach at least 56. The Avs could break the streak against the last team the Avs beat who weren’t the Blues: The Vancouver Canucks on Wednesday:A couple of these additions are things I forgot, and others are things that have happened since...
Tweet As the Avs started sinking in the standings I started wondering what the value of going from a top 15 pick to a top 3 pick was for the Avs. Then the trade deadline happened and I started wondering exactly what the value of a draft pick, any draft pick, really was. You see a guy traded for a 7th rounder and have to think that even if he plays only 5 games he’s...
Tweet This is a list of things that have happened, both in hockey and the world, since the Avs beat anyone other than the St. Louis Blues (in no particular order):- a 2nd round pick Chris Stewart and Kevin Shattenkirk traded to St. Louis for a 1st round pick, Erik Johnson and Jay McClement- John Michael Liles was not traded- 92 players were traded by their organizations in the NHL- Andrew Brunette played in his...
Tweet For those who don’t know him, Elliotte Friedman is a reporter for CBC sports in Canada. He’s one of the best reporters in hockey, and puts pout a weekly column called 30 thoughts. It should be the second hockey website you check after coming here every week. In this weeks 30 thoughts there were a couple thoughts on the Avs, including this one: 5. Two things others say about the Avalanche: they are targeting...
Tweet The Avs have made a few deals here the last couple days. Let’s break them down. We’ll start with the blockbuster the Avs pulled off late last night, and work backwards to the Andrson-Elliot trade.Avalanche trade F Chris Stewart, D Kevin Shattenkirk, and a 2nd round pick to St Louis for D Erik Johnson, F Jay McClement, and a 1st round pick. Holy Schnikes!Let’s start with the easy parts: Kevin Shattenkirk is going to...