Tweet The Selke is one of the most bizarre awards in all of sports. In my opinion, it really should be prestigious, even more so than it already is. Having a forward that can shut down opposing players best offensive players and keep opponents from scoring goals is every bit as valuable as having players that score goals. However the difficulty in actually evaluating good defense across different teams is so hard that one player...
Tweet Those rapscallions over at Melt Your Face Off, have inspired me. You see the Melt Your Face-Off guys started a "welcome back" program to help ease football fans jump on the bandwagon for their local hockey team, since football fans now have an extra 11 minutes of downtime every single week. MYFO did one for every single city/area that has both football teams and hockey teams, and the football team isn't playing, and here's...
Tweet I'm going to try something new here, and do a links page, as many popular blogs do. (I am not trying to insinuate that I'm popular here, I'm just trying to copy what popular people do.) Actually I get links from time to time from other people, and I enjoy that, so I thought I should highlight a little bit of what I'm reading to return the favor to people. So here's some of...
Tweet The Vancouver Canucks seem to be the victims of an awful lot of communication woes these days. First there was Alex Burrows claiming that referee Stephane Auger told him before the game that Auger was out to get Burrows.Auger then went out and made two questionable calls against the Vancouver forward. Then in their next game Derek Boogard claims that Darcy Hordichuk was told by coach Vigneault to goad the Wild enforcer into...
Tweet Last night the Isles beat the Avs in a 3-2 game Recap: (Anyone but Detroit, Mile High Hockey, Lighthouse Hockey). I thought it was an okay played game. Both teams played pretty well, although you could tell both teams are young teams who made some glaring mistakes. Overall I was pretty entertained and my thoughts after the game were "Bummer. At least we've got Carolina Friday". Then I went to bed. I mean the...
Tweet Last season, almost all of Avsopolis (it's like Avs-nation, without the cliche "nation") pretty much hated Darcy Tucker. He was down-right atrocious last season, was overpaid, and replaced fan favorite Andrew Brunette (and his contract was a factor in not re-signing fan favorite Ian Laperriere). All-in-all it looked like Darcy Tucker was a shoe-in to replace Tyler Arnason as the Avs most-hated player by his own fan base. Then a funny thing happened to...
Tweet Short and Quick today. Here's an item from Elliotte Friedman 's blog: 27. Adam Foote was booed every time he touched the puck Saturday night in Columbus. Down 2-1 after two, he told his teammates, “It’s going to be that much sweeter when we win this game.” Colorado rallied to win it. Awesome.
Tweet Here’s the Avs 1st team for the decade. I’m pretty sure all 6 could be easily guessed. Avs All-Decade Team LW - Alex Tanguay (2000-2006) Picture from UPI.com You know, Alex Tanguay wasn't very good in his own end, and I know some Avs fans like to compare guys like Marek Svatos to Tanguay because neither are very good in their own end. But Alex Tanguay sure scored a lot of points, and scored...
this post brought to you by Jibblescribbits. Again, thedoctor has free reign to comment on any of my suggestions. (EDIT: Marty Reasoner is listed as a UFA here, so I was under the impression he was going to hit the market. Apparently he has been re-signed (as can be seen here), therefore I had to change some of the original post. I also fixed some math mistakes.) After taking a look at the free agents...
Tweet update An absolutely scathing critique of Pierre Lacroix that you should read can be found here.Who are Taylor Hall and Kirill Kabanov you ask? Well they are projected to probably be the top pick of the 2010 entry draft. That’s right, the 2010 entry draft. If you’re wondering why I’m looking ahead to the 2010 entry draft, it’s because I’m a big fan of Albert Einstein. The one quote that pops into my head...