Colorado

4 March 2009

didn't do Hossa any permanent damage, and I'm hoping he's back for tonight's late game against the Colorado Avalanche.

A note on the Avs. I am young...ish still, but I remember vividly the hit on Kris Draper by Claude Lemieux, a not-so-standard drive from behind into the crease between the boards and the ice. Why did Lemieux have to keep crushing Draper's face into the ice like that? What could possibly have been his motivation for delivering the hit that is still as fresh in everyone's mind twelve years after the fact as if it happened yesterday?

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6 February 2009

Lets get the loss out of the way by saying: yes, we should have beat Anaheim and played rather ridiculously according my my snobby, high-nosed standards. We did play, however, like we have all year, which is to say we underachieved.

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5 July 2008

It's hard to be excited about a man that Denver Post writer Adrian Dater, quoting an Edmonton sports writer, defines as: "Not great offensively, not great defensively. Plays a safe game, kind of like Sauer."

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2 July 2008

The number one blunder in Colorado Avalanche history: Letting go of Chris Drury.

That said, the Avs have had been relatively lackluster in the period of free agency thus far.

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