Avs Ink Chris Stewart to 2-year Deal
by Mike @ MHH on Sep 3, 2010 6:53 AM MDT
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Angelique had this up in the wee hours last night, but since I'm lazy I'm totally going to use if for today's content. Hey, it's not often that the Avalanche DO something during the offseason, so I gotta milk it. Anyway, here's the Colorado press release and here's Dater's write-up (note the awesome photo they used for the story...). Per Dater the terms of the deal are 2 years at $5.75 million. That's a cap hit of $2.875 million per year. Looks like management managed! to get the coveted 2-year deal and Chris Stewart gets a nice raise after his 28 goal/64 point sophomore season.
Nhlnumbers.com has the updated salary cap list as well with a calculated total Colorado cap of $39.64 million or about $3.75 million under the cap floor. The $2.875 million number is significantly lower than DDC's prediction and makes me wonder what else the Avs have up their sleeves, cuz I don't see them giving Peter Mueller more $$$ than Stewart. There may be signs of life in the front office after all.
Avs Ink Stewart
Contract is 2-years/$5.75 according to Dater.
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SBN Mock Draft: Avalanche Protected List is Revealed
by David Driscoll-Carignan on Sep 1, 2010 5:42 PM MDT
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The results are in. After months...er, days of heated...er, lukewarm debate we here at Mile High Hockey have put together a protected list for tomorrow's Mock Expansion Draft James Mirtle and Corsican Gabe Desjardins will be acting as GMs for the Nordiques and Jets respectively and will be drafting their teams tomorrow.
Here is the official, fake Mile High Hockey protected list:
Goalie (1): Craig Anderson
Defense (5): Kyle Cumiskey, Scott Hannan, John-Michael Liles, Kyle Quincey, Ryan Wilson
Forwards (9): Matt Duchene, Milan Hejduk, T.J. Galiardi, David Jones, Cody McLeod, Peter Mueller, Ryan O'Reilly, Paul Stastny, Chris Stewart
This means the following players are unprotected:
Goalies: Peter Budaj, John Grahame
Defense: Adam Foote
Forwards: David Koci, Kevin Porter, Daniel Winnik
The voting was interesting. In the forward poll, voters clearly circled the wagons and chose to protect longer-tenured players over new arrivals Kevin Porter and Daniel Winnick but chose to leave team captain and Adam Foote unprotected. Winnick is an especially interesting choice as the Avalanche just acquired him this summer. His exclusion essentially means the Avalanche traded a 4th round pick to protect Cody McLeod.
I believe the two teams will be unveiled next Tuesday, so stay tuned to SBNation to see the exciting conclusion
Predict and Win Contest Open Now!!
by Paul's Coffey on Sep 1, 2010 10:00 AM MDT
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Welcome to the Mile High Hockey predict and win contest
The Contest is: predict how the Avalanche will do in the 2010-2011 season, as instructed below, to win one-of-a-kind prizes and the praise and adulation of hundreds of the faceless internet hoards!
The Contest: You must predict the following 4 items to enter the contest and be eligible for the sweet prizes:
- Predict the final point total the Avs will amass over the 82 game season?
- First tie-breaker: What round (if any) of the playoffs will the Avs get to? First? Semi's? Miss playoffs? Cup Champs? Etc., etc..
- Second tie-breaker: Guess the Avs regular season final conference standing.
- Third tie-breaker: How many starts for Peter Budaj?
Rules:
- Make your prediction in the comments section of this post.
- Be nice. All predictions are created equal, so no attacking anyone or their prediction!! No name calling, no biting, no hair-pulling, no crying, but you are allowed to run with scissors near the swimming pool. Go nuts.
- You only get ONE prediction. Once you've had your say, you're done. You're free to comment, but please don't change your story a million times throughout the post as it will disqualify you from the contest.
- The contest will be open until 10am MST, Friday, September 3rd, at which point the comments will be closed and set in stone. The winner will be announced sometime after the season ends. Hopefully we can do it as quickly as the top 19 list.
Prizes:
The winner will receive a pair of season tickets! $25 gift certificate to the MHH store, a front page article declaring and celebrating the winner's amazing skills (photo of yourself included!), bragging rights all summer long (unless you get too annoying), and Mike will take you out for an Arby's lunch where he will personally punch the Arby's sandwich of your choosing.
We will also post a list of the top ten soothsayers on the front page.
Good luck, have fun, and may the force be with you as you gaze into your crystal ball.
GroupThink: Which Forwards Do We Protect in the SBN Mock Expansion Draft?
by David Driscoll-Carignan on Aug 31, 2010 7:55 PM MDT
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Mile High Hockey is currently participating in establishing a fake protected list for the SBN Mock Expansion Draft. Craig Anderson will be our lone goalie protected and we're currently in the middle of voting to establish which 5 defensemen to protect. Our final task it to pick which 9 forwards get protected.
For starters, there are 12 forwards that are eligible for the draft. We can protect 9 of them. For simplicities sake, I'm going to arbitrarily decide that Stastny, Hejduk, Duchene, O'Reilly, Galiardi, Mueller and Stewart are automatic protects, so it really boils down to choosing 2 more forwards to protect. The SBN polling system only allows one choice, but I think we can make it work. There are four forwards on the poll; vote for the player you think we should NOT protect. The two players with the most votes will be left unprotected, along with David Koci (executive decision there).
So vote early and...uh, vote once. Again, the two forwards with the most votes will be left unprotected and at risk of getting drafted by Quebec or *gulp* Winnipeg.
GroupThink: Which Defenseman Do We Protect in the SBN Mock Expansion Draft?
by David Driscoll-Carignan on Aug 31, 2010 5:17 PM MDT
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For those who missed last week's episode, SBN is running a Mock Expansion Draft because...well, just because. In a landslide, Mile High readers voted overwhelmingly to go with the 1 goalie, 5 defenseman and 9 forwards option. (Which, we realized too late, was the only option we were allowed to use anyway). Now for the fun part: picking our protected list.
I'm not even going to bother polling about the goalie. We are protecting Craig Anderson. End of story. In this thread, we'll pick the 5 defensemen to protect. Actually, in the poll below we're going to select the defenseman we want to expose.
- Hannan
- Liles
- Cumiskey
- Wilson
- Foote
- Quincey
One of those names needs to be left unprotected. And based on the look of some of the protected lists coming in, chances are pretty strong that the player we expose will be taken so keep that in mind when making your choice. The player with the most votes by, say, 6pm eastern on Wednesday will be the one we don't protect. Choose wisely.
(Forward list will be done separately)
Announcing the Mile High Hockey "Predict & Win Contest"!
by Paul's Coffey on Aug 31, 2010 8:00 AM MDT
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Good morning dear readers,
In a recent post, many of you (meaning two) discussed how you would enjoy a forum to show off your powers of prediction and/or drunk luck, in guessing how the 2010-2011 season would unfold for our beloved Avalanche. So, in an effort to show we listen to our beleaguered league of faithful followers (and to kill some more time until Oct 7th), we are pleased to announce the first ever "Mile High Hockey Predict and Win Contest Extravaganza of Fun Time Merrymaking and Passing the Time Until the Season Starts Contest"! There will be prizes! There will be rules!! There will be Arby's sauce!
Here's how it will work: Tomorrow morning, Wednesday, September 1st, at 10am MST, we will post the actual forum for you to make your predictions. The post will be open for 48 hours, after which, it will close and all predictions will do like Moses and his ten commandments and be set in stone. **if you are not currently a member of SBN and MHH, first, why the hell aren't you? And second, you can sign up today and then be able to comment now, and cast your prediction tomorrow. So don't wait!**
Rules:
- Be nice. All predictions are created equal, so no attacking anyone or their prediction!! No name calling, no biting, no hair-pulling, no crying, no running near the swimming pool. Leave those types of surly shenanigans for the clever fans of the winged wheel.
- You only get ONE prediction. Once you've had your say, you're done. You can't change your story five times throughout the post - that's why we're giving you a day's notice to ponder and utilize all your mind grapes to come up with the best prediction you possibly can.
You must predict the following 4 items to enter the contest and be eligible for the sweet prizes:
- What do you predict will be the point total the Avs will amass over the 82 game season?
- First tie-breaker: What round (if any) of the playoffs will the Avs get to? First? Second? Miss playoffs? Cup Champs? Etc., etc..
- Second tie-breaker: Guess the Avs regular season final conference standing.
- Third tie-breaker: How many starts for Peter Budaj?
So your prediction could read something like this: I predict the Avs will finish with 95 points, get tossed in the second round, finish 7th in the West, and Budaj will start a measly 1 start.
Prizes: The winner will receive a pair of season tickets! $25 gift certificate to the MHH store, a front page article declaring and celebrating the winner's amazing skills (photo of yourself included!), bragging rights all summer long (unless you get too annoying), and Mike will take you out for an Arby's lunch where he will personally punch the Arby's sandwich of your choosing.
All of this is subject to change as we see fit/our lawyer (Joe) advises. But please have fun and enjoy yourselves. Feel free to use today's post to get out all your thinking/debating so that your prediction is fine tuned and ready to rock Wednesday morning.
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