Tweet HO LY HELL. Adding insult to injury: Evgeny Nabokov returned home from the game last night to find Dan Boyle's car parked in his garage. Can you win the Conn Smythe in the third game of the post season? Probably not, but if you can, Andy made the case. The Avalanche are wanted for grand larceny in the state of California. Don't worry, even if they are arrested Anderson will bail them out. That...
Tweet God what a great night, not just for the Avs, but for hockey. A monumental night as every single game was close, and every single underdog won.Ottawa beat Pittsburgh (and Fleury looked atrocious in that game). Philly beat New Jersey, with a key role in the game being played by Ian Laperriere. Then the Coyotes beat the Wings, and an internet meme went big time as the #throwthesnake movement paid off with a snake...
Tweet If my own recap wasn't enough for you, here's some other write-ups of last night's game Avs-centric Mainstream Media Denver Post - Standard Newspaper Write-up All Things Avs Adrian Dater talks about some truly atrocious officiating that marred an otherwise great game 1. In Denver Times: Bruce Wilkie Has a write-up as well. Denver Post: Terri Frei Terri Frei points out how the Avs, ok Anderson, killing that opening penalty set the tone for...
Tweet I have never ever thought of Avs-Sharks as having much of a rivalry, but the Avs and Sharks do have a little bit of a playoff history. The Avs took the first two series ('99, '02) including a classic in '02. Peter Forsberg scored the last two goals of the series (OT winner in game 6, only goal in game 7) and Roy got a 1-0 game 7 shutout to bring the Avs back...
Tweet The first game of the regular season was Joe Sakic night, October 1st 2009, coincidentally enough against the San Jose Sharks. The game was on VS, and VS had this archaic policy of joining west coast games in progress, so you can be forgiven if you think that little over the course of the season. The season, as fun as it is, is a six month grind, obviously more so for players, but it...
Tweet I'm on vacation for the next 2+ weeks with not much internet access. I was going to have frequent commentor Dario bless you all with his wisdom over those two weeks, but I was lazy and didn't get it set up, so sorry. Hopefully the Avs don't completely fall apart. Go Avs.
Tweet The Avs have played 10 games since the Olympics, and since then they have gone 5-5-0. That's decidedly mediocre (especially considering that of the 5 wins all five came against teams currently on the outside looking into the playoff picture). The natural reaction here is to overreact, especially when the Avs were blown out of the building by the playoffless Ducks last night. But this stuff happens, teams go through ebb-and-flows throughout the season...
Tweet One of the NHL awards I am probably overly concerned with is the Selke trophy. It just seems like if the NHL is going to go through the trouble of having an award, there might as well be some kind of criteria to deciding who should win it. So in January I took a look at how centers did at both defensive zone face-offs and tried to cross reference that with how they did...
Tweet I'm not really sure I understand the Flames decision to start Vesa Toskala tonight. The Flames are hanging on by a thread for the final playoff spot in the west, and they desperately need a win tonight. I realize that Kiprusoff has played 2 games in three days, but well... with that much on the line you'd think your franchise goalie would be ok with playing 3 in 4. Anderson has certainly done it...
Tweet So I'm working in my garage on Friday evening drinking a beer, playing with power tools, and listenning to Sirius-XM's Alt Nation when all of a sudden Ryan Miller joins the DJ in the studio. It turns out he's a huge Alternative music fan and so he went to the studio and picked 8 songs to play. For the record his playlist was: Kings of Leon - California Waiting, Molly's ChamberYeah Yeah Yeahs -...