Your Middle Of The Week Thread

by Joe Dunman on Jul 30, 2008 7:08 AM MDT in NHL News

Look, if the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News have given up and are just mailing it in, so am I. If the real journalists can't be bothered to write at this point in the off-season, then this blogger can't be bothered, either.

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Here's the quote of the day, in response to Dater's extremely brief blog post about Andrew Raycroft and whether or not the much-maligned backup goalie "still has it":

Well, he better “still have it”, because Peter Budaj never had it, and I doubt he ever will.

Raycroft, our playoff hopes rest in your hands.

Comment by James — July 29, 2008 @ 8:32 pm

Happy Wednesday!

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Open Letter

Dear James,

Goalies that “still have it” don’t take a huge paycut when they change teams. They also don’t get bought out by one of the most poorly run teams of the last 5 years.

Raycroft is a backup to Budaj. Get used to it. Goaltending is the least of our worries when 3/4 of the lineup can’t survive past the halfway mark of the season.

Sincerely,

Rational Avalanche Fans Against Douch-Baggery (RAFAD)
Oklahoma City Branch

by Mike @ MHH on Jul 30, 2008 8:34 AM MDT reply actions

How is it even possible that “Raycroft” and “playoff hopes” appear in the same sentence, without at least one use of the word “no?”

Go Avs! Let's get some goals!

by Joe Dunman on Jul 30, 2008 9:47 AM MDT up reply actions

geez

I never really watched raycroft, I just know he was decent as a rookie and declined slowly. But all this hate from EVERYONE in hockey circles is really worrying. I thought it was a decent pickup for a backup, now I’m getting worried.

by thedoctor on Jul 30, 2008 10:49 AM MDT reply actions

Hopefully he’ll only get 30 or so chances to screw up. Even if he loses every game he plays, that still means the Avs will finish the season 52-30-0. Right? Right?

Go Avs! Let's get some goals!

by Joe Dunman on Jul 30, 2008 11:56 AM MDT up reply actions

So Theodore had a resurgence and is suddenly a great goalie again, but Budaj (who’s numbers were not all that different) is suddenly a terrible goalie? Boy some of these so called Avs fans are getting as bad as Leaf and Habs fans.

I hope Rycroft turns his game around, but I doubt he’ll even get a chance to start consecutive games unless Boods slips on an icy step outside his house.

"The difference between a successful person and others,
is not a lack of strength,not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."
-Vince Lombardi-

by Americanario on Jul 30, 2008 12:34 PM MDT reply actions

Haha. I assume you meant Raycroft, not Rycroft. Poor Rycroft isn’t turning anything around.

And what kind of twisted irony would it be for a hockey player to injure himself walking on ice?

Go Avs! Let's get some goals!

by Joe Dunman on Jul 30, 2008 12:36 PM MDT up reply actions

And what kind of twisted irony would it be for a hockey player to injure himself walking on ice?

Jose Theodore’s kind, apparently…

by Mike @ MHH on Jul 30, 2008 12:44 PM MDT up reply actions

Jose, you deserve it! Leaving us fans out to dry over half a million!
Integrity is not for sale, Paris-loving-Hairgrow-ointment-using Cheapskate

26 Card Jet

by Tommelot on Jul 31, 2008 4:04 AM MDT up reply actions

GOOD ONE!

hockeynana

by hockeynana on Jul 30, 2008 1:19 PM MDT reply actions

Theodore

video interview of Jose Theodore (part 1 is today, part 2 tomorrow). Not all that interesting, except when he points out that his father was English and that his name is pronounced the way it looks – none of this Tea Adore crap.

by David Driscoll-Carignan on Jul 30, 2008 2:04 PM MDT reply actions