Tweet Contributed by resident historian, Tilt’d Toledo1978: February 12th; Possibly as a result of the dreaded AVCO Cup hangover, the Nordiques went into Cincinnati suffering through their worst slump of the season. They had lost two straight in Houston to start the week and had won only 3 of their past 11 games. A loss to the Stingers threatened to drop the Cup champs to .500 for the first time since October. With a spate...
Addendum See last post for updates to salary structuresTime to look at the forwards. After sifting through the Defense and Goalies the Avs will be left with approximately $13-13.5M $15M for free agency. The Avs have several issues at forward, but first let’s quickly recap the Sakic situation (despite talking about it plenty last week):Despite the panic at the Denver Post, where every scribe seems to think this is “messy” and has handcuffed the Avs,...
The much anticipated free agency review is finally here. I delayed it because the Avs have been curiously quiet with their re-signings until now. After learning that they were talking to both Sauer and Finger they went and re-signed Liles and Foote, leaving little to no room for Finger or Sauer (and no room for both of them). The first step to having a solid free agency signing period is to identify needs and means....
Tweet When I first heard the news Granato would be the coach of the Avs, I really couldn’t believe it. Despite that commenters here have never been wrong about breaking news, when bbgrunt submitted his comment (not less than 5 minutes after I wrote my own “who should be the Avs next coach” post) my first reaction was to ask for a source. (By the way hat tip to bbgrunt a day late). My surprise...
So now that it’s established what the Avs have, what do the Avs need, and who should they target?Top 2-Line winger/center: The Avs really need a couple more goal scorers to fill out their top 2 lines. Wolski is nice, and can fill in, but he’s still a sophomore and may not develop. Svatos seems to have lost it, and the Avs can’t count on him to be able to fill those roles. Maybe one...