Tweet It’s a dark and lonely place for Avs fans right now. Peter Forsberg retired officially, then the Avs came out and laid a Lady Gaga carriage of an egg for a game. To top it all off Phillipe Dupuis, one of the Avs best players over this never-ending losing streak, throws a completely unacceptable cheap shot to end the 1st period. A 9-1 drubbing at a random point in a season is tough, but...
Tweet Last night at the beginning of the Phoenix game (I’ll call it an Avs game when they finally score a goal) McNab said something about Sacco that really starts to make me wonder about him.Paraphrasing: Sacco told me he changed goalies for tonight in order to change things up and get a win. It’s not that Budaj played awfully, it’s that he felt like he needed to change things up to try and get...
<a href="http://twitter.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fjibblescribbits.com%2F2011-articles%2Ffebruary%2Favs-wild-qhighqlights.html" class="twitter-share-button" data-text="Avs-Wild "High"lights:" data-count="horizontal" data-via="vagrantweb" data-related="carter_vagrant">Tweet</a> 1st Goal against: Duchene really screwed up on the 1st goal. Centers need to be responsible and Duchene let his guy come right down the slot, which created the 2v1. Stoa didn’t hep at all, but Duchene still has a long ways to go in being responsible defensively. He can’t cheat that much. Cumisky just awful on the 2nd goal. I mean one of the worst individual...
Tweet Last season the Avs made considerable progress on the freshman season of a planned rebuild and this season they were looking like playoff contenders, leading everyone to believe the rebuild was well ahead of schedule. Well a couple of poorly times devastating injuries (Fleishman, Quincey) and an abysmal month later and the Avs are in limbo. This leads the Avs brass to ask a difficult question:Are the Avs committed to a full rebuild, or...
Tweet I got my hands on an NHL memo talking about lessons learned from the NHL All Star Game. It seems that the league learned some lessons from the new format, and have some notes on how to make next years weekend even better. I went ahead and bullitized the main points from the memo and am leaking them to masses. - The NHL Draft created a ton of hype and a ton of press...
Tweet (I’m going to rant a little on Goaltending here. Let me just say that the Avs problem is at defense, and the fact they have none. There’s not much point in ranting about it too much because the Avs don’t have the players to make it improve right now. The players are playing to their ability, the Avs just aren’t talented enough on the back end. Until that is fixed, the Avs will continue...
Tweet I have a long standing policy that I don’t talk about Peter until he’s in uniform in a real game. I am not breaking that policy.
Tweet I’ve been relatively tough on Wild fans. So Kudos to them for being classy while O’Reilly was down on the ice.
Tweet Avs top goalie Prospect Calvin Pickard on the Thunderbirds. He shares a name with both Cpt Pickard and Calvin From Calvin and Hobbes, so he’s my fav. Avs prospect. - Little Girls choir singing the national Anthem. And there’s a Stars fan in attendance. Buddy, when the Stars aren’t playing, yelling “S” makes you sound like a Vagina Scrubber. - 2:00 Seattle with a turnover that leads to a close range shot that Pickard...
Tweet (Still haven’t fixed the comments. Drop me a line on twitter or e-mail if you have something to say while I get this worked out)Everyone’s favorite ginger Avalanche beat reporter, Adrian Dater, has a solid post about the Avs goaltending situation right now. I recommend going over to read it, mainly because I agree with it. Budaj and Anderson are playing about the same right now (their Save %’s are nearly identical, especially at...