Game 39: Coyotes 4, Avalanche 3 (SO)

is about the only word that can describe the attitude of Quenville. This must be why he is nothing more than a .500 coach. That and he'll probably play Theo on Wednesday and we can look forward to a loss with no points.
The power play "looked" better last night. They were actually shooting the puck instead of making 50 million passes. Unfortunately Brygalov had the force field going. Avs are now 0-9 since Brunette scored on the power play vs Vancouver in the third period.
I hope on Wednesday that the Avs realize that two of their three goals beat Brygalov top shelf.  He can be neat if you get the puck off of the ice on him, Wolski's goal was top shelve over the right shoulder and Mcleod beat him over the left shoulder. I can't quite remember, but I bet Clark's goal was also off the ice.

Vrbata's first goal was a defensive debacle. After knocking the puck off Sjostrom's stick three Avs just stared at it until Hanzal came in and chipped it to Vrbata who had an open net. Reinprecht's goal? How do TWO guys miss knocking a puck out of the air with their hands? I guess neither Liles nor Richardson played baseball cause they can't catch.

I am also tired of the announcers jinxing the team. Any one else hear their comment during the second penalty kill "The Avs penalty kill is much improved having allowed just 9 goals in the last 20 games."  Then almost immediately Vrbata scores on the power play. The later we go and give up another ppg to Vrbata. Enough with the bloody stats during the game already. It's bad enough when they talk about shut out streaks during the game....seriously, enough already!

The vast majority of the shots against Bryzgalov last night seemed to be along the ice and geared toward five-hole land.  I don't know if that was something the Avs went into the game trying to do or if it just shook out that way, but Americano, you're right, nothing was beating him low.  Then again, the only goal that went in low on Boots was that failed poke-check on the first PP goal.

I guess my point is, unless you have traffic at the net (which seemed intermitent last night, much like the Colorado forecheck) shooting high on Bryz probably isn't a bad idea.

No, not keeping Q around.  His biggest mistake so far is not doing whatever he needed to do to trade for Bryzgalov before the Ducks let him go on waivers for nothing.  As much as I want to believe that Budaj has what it takes to be a solid number one in this league, he was clearly overmatched the other night in Phoenix.  And doesn't anyone in the Av organization remember what Bryzgalov did in the 2006 playoffs?  He clearly can be one of the best in the league in the right situation.  And FG was asleep at the wheel when he was available for a song earlier in the year.