Comments on: Recap: Blues 4, Avalanche 1 http://inthecheapseats.com/avs-recaps/02-15-2008/recap-blues-4-avalanche-1 Your NHL 3rd jersey source (with some Colorado Avalanche stuff mixed in) Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:14:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Bob in Boulder http://inthecheapseats.com/avs-recaps/02-15-2008/recap-blues-4-avalanche-1#comment-3007 Bob in Boulder Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:04:28 +0000 http://inthecheapseats.com/avs-recaps/02-15-2008/recap-blues-4-avalanche-1#comment-3007 Dater is always grabbing the wrong Johnson. Dater is always grabbing the wrong Johnson.

]]> By: David Driscoll-Carignan http://inthecheapseats.com/avs-recaps/02-15-2008/recap-blues-4-avalanche-1#comment-3006 David Driscoll-Carignan Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:46:52 +0000 http://inthecheapseats.com/avs-recaps/02-15-2008/recap-blues-4-avalanche-1#comment-3006 I have a hard time believing that I have a hard time believing that

]]> By: Joe http://inthecheapseats.com/avs-recaps/02-15-2008/recap-blues-4-avalanche-1#comment-3005 Joe Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:46:27 +0000 http://inthecheapseats.com/avs-recaps/02-15-2008/recap-blues-4-avalanche-1#comment-3005 I try not to discuss other people's Johnsons too often. I try not to discuss other people’s Johnsons too often.

]]> By: David Driscoll-Carignan http://inthecheapseats.com/avs-recaps/02-15-2008/recap-blues-4-avalanche-1#comment-3004 David Driscoll-Carignan Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:15:01 +0000 http://inthecheapseats.com/avs-recaps/02-15-2008/recap-blues-4-avalanche-1#comment-3004 so, should who wants to tell the Denver Post that they've got the wrong Johnson? http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site36/2008/0215/20080215_120708_sp15avs_chart_200.jpg so, should who wants to tell the Denver Post that they’ve got the wrong Johnson?

http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site36/2008/0215/20080215_120708_sp15avs_chart_200.jpg

]]> By: David Driscoll-Carignan http://inthecheapseats.com/avs-recaps/02-15-2008/recap-blues-4-avalanche-1#comment-3003 David Driscoll-Carignan Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:09:19 +0000 http://inthecheapseats.com/avs-recaps/02-15-2008/recap-blues-4-avalanche-1#comment-3003 yeah, those were totally on someone else. my bad. yeah, those were totally on someone else. my bad.

]]> By: Thomas http://inthecheapseats.com/avs-recaps/02-15-2008/recap-blues-4-avalanche-1#comment-3002 Thomas Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:18:04 +0000 http://inthecheapseats.com/avs-recaps/02-15-2008/recap-blues-4-avalanche-1#comment-3002 Wow. Theo allows one semi-bad goal (on a screen, no less) and two that weren't in any way his fault, and you bash him. *shakes head* Pathetic. You're just looking for any possible reason to hate on the guy. Grow the fuck up already. Wow. Theo allows one semi-bad goal (on a screen, no less) and two that weren’t in any way his fault, and you bash him.

*shakes head*

Pathetic. You’re just looking for any possible reason to hate on the guy. Grow the fuck up already.

]]> By: americanario http://inthecheapseats.com/avs-recaps/02-15-2008/recap-blues-4-avalanche-1#comment-3000 americanario Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:46:58 +0000 http://inthecheapseats.com/avs-recaps/02-15-2008/recap-blues-4-avalanche-1#comment-3000 We'll see what Q does with the goal tending this week. Theo should start again to make sure this was a fluke and not the start of his implosion. It was good to see Budaj play strong, too bad is effort was in vain as his team had their pockets picked all night. Wolski has improved defensively, but it showed last night that he still has a lot of room in which to improve. He should be taking the face offs every time his line is on the ice. Arnason still couldn't win a face off against a paper sack. Power play...Where to begin? You gotta continue to love the play and effort of Guite. The only guy who found a way to not be effected by Legace. Legace = Kryptonite to the Avs. We’ll see what Q does with the goal tending this week. Theo should start again to make sure this was a fluke and not the start of his implosion. It was good to see Budaj play strong, too bad is effort was in vain as his team had their pockets picked all night.

Wolski has improved defensively, but it showed last night that he still has a lot of room in which to improve. He should be taking the face offs every time his line is on the ice. Arnason still couldn’t win a face off against a paper sack.

Power play…Where to begin?

You gotta continue to love the play and effort of Guite. The only guy who found a way to not be effected by Legace. Legace = Kryptonite to the Avs.

]]> By: Selanne http://inthecheapseats.com/avs-recaps/02-15-2008/recap-blues-4-avalanche-1#comment-2999 Selanne Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:11:30 +0000 http://inthecheapseats.com/avs-recaps/02-15-2008/recap-blues-4-avalanche-1#comment-2999 Tony Granato is in charge of the powerplay. "Well there's your problem!" Tony Granato is in charge of the powerplay.

“Well there’s your problem!”

]]> By: Dario http://inthecheapseats.com/avs-recaps/02-15-2008/recap-blues-4-avalanche-1#comment-2998 Dario Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:48:53 +0000 http://inthecheapseats.com/avs-recaps/02-15-2008/recap-blues-4-avalanche-1#comment-2998 As you know, I'm a big Richardson fan. However, he was a non-factor last night. I don't expect him to stay with the team when Stastny and Sakic are back. He and McLeod are probably the first to go. I'm refraining from discussing the four forwards on the PP. It's like watching Wyatt Smith take regular shifts, you know it's wrong, everyone who knows anything about hockey knows it's wrong but the coaching staff must know something we don't and they keep doing it. It takes this coaching staff a looong time to discontinue their pet projects and a very, very short time to yank the guys in their doghouse no matter how effective they've been. I mean, now Sauer is a foundation in the defense but last year he barely got a sniff of ice time until the end of the year. No one saw the downgrade in Laaksonen? So much so that he make a one way trip to the AHL? Skrastins took two years of miserable play before he benched himself with a knee injury and all of a sudden Sauer anchors the left side with Clark to "the streak". I think the coaching staff doesn't so much make adjustments but rather falls in to things that work through pure luck sometimes. I have a feeling that's what will happen to the power play towards the end of the year. For example, Finger is taking great point shots on the power play from the left side but he always starts the pp shift on the right and has to switch with Liles. Um, why can't they start on those sides? And why can't Liles take the same slapper from his side of the ice? Why isn't someone in front of the net when that crossing pass is going to Finger? I think it will happen a couple of times and then Jack Adams will get all the credit while everyone points to injuries. Could these things all happen 10 games earlier than they do? Yes, a thousand times yes. As you know, I’m a big Richardson fan. However, he was a non-factor last night. I don’t expect him to stay with the team when Stastny and Sakic are back. He and McLeod are probably the first to go.

I’m refraining from discussing the four forwards on the PP. It’s like watching Wyatt Smith take regular shifts, you know it’s wrong, everyone who knows anything about hockey knows it’s wrong but the coaching staff must know something we don’t and they keep doing it. It takes this coaching staff a looong time to discontinue their pet projects and a very, very short time to yank the guys in their doghouse no matter how effective they’ve been. I mean, now Sauer is a foundation in the defense but last year he barely got a sniff of ice time until the end of the year. No one saw the downgrade in Laaksonen? So much so that he make a one way trip to the AHL? Skrastins took two years of miserable play before he benched himself with a knee injury and all of a sudden Sauer anchors the left side with Clark to “the streak”. I think the coaching staff doesn’t so much make adjustments but rather falls in to things that work through pure luck sometimes. I have a feeling that’s what will happen to the power play towards the end of the year. For example, Finger is taking great point shots on the power play from the left side but he always starts the pp shift on the right and has to switch with Liles. Um, why can’t they start on those sides? And why can’t Liles take the same slapper from his side of the ice? Why isn’t someone in front of the net when that crossing pass is going to Finger? I think it will happen a couple of times and then Jack Adams will get all the credit while everyone points to injuries. Could these things all happen 10 games earlier than they do? Yes, a thousand times yes.

]]> By: Joe http://inthecheapseats.com/avs-recaps/02-15-2008/recap-blues-4-avalanche-1#comment-2997 Joe Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:36:51 +0000 http://inthecheapseats.com/avs-recaps/02-15-2008/recap-blues-4-avalanche-1#comment-2997 I don't understand the power play failure at all. Just get the tapes of the last 20 or 30 Canadiens games, watch them over and over, and then do what they do. Why do the Avs keep trying to do the same things over and over and over when they know it doesn't work? I don’t understand the power play failure at all. Just get the tapes of the last 20 or 30 Canadiens games, watch them over and over, and then do what they do.

Why do the Avs keep trying to do the same things over and over and over when they know it doesn’t work?

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