Your NHL 3rd jersey source (with some Colorado Avalanche stuff mixed in)
September 22nd, 2008
The Archives
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09.22.08Per Ledin is getting my hopes upI have to admit, this Ledin fellow has really piqued my curiosity. The Avs have a brief interview up on their site and there's one passage that really stuck out to me: Is there maybe a player in the NHL right now you model your game after, or could compare yourself to? “When I grew up I had two strong models. One was Mikael Renberg; he’s retired right now but he played for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Philadelphia Flyers. The other one is Tomas Holmstrom in Detroit. I looked up to them when I was growing up and took the best ...
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09.22.08New NHL shot reportI'm not always a big fan of the way the NHL runs things, but one thing I do like is the excellent array of stats the league offers up on it's website. It looks like they've added career and single season leaders, and those can be filtered by team (did you know Marek Svatos is 9th on the Avalanche all-time goal-scoring list?) Also, to their plethora of online game reports, they've added a new one - the shot summary. This one breaks down, by player and by team, shots taken in a game. For the first time, we'll be able to ...
