yikes, didn’t see the game, but it seems like i would do alot of yelling at my tv :(

Far be it for me to question Coach Sacco, but why not try Matty D on the top line? I mean The Duke and SoS have the tools to run with him for sure.

I know it’s early, but if the Svats Machine keeps up this sub par play..what (or who) do you guys think we could get for him?

In some ways, I’m upset, and in others, I consider the Avs very lucky. Brent Burns missed a wide open net at least 3 times.

I know Quincey got a garbage goal, but I thought that this was really his first bad game for the Avs. He really struggled defensively tonight.

Hannan played very well again, I thought.

Finally, here’s hoping McLeod’s eye injury is more of a scare than anything. The Avs should have gotten a power play after Quincey’s goal, as there should have been a high sticking double minor. Hope he wakes up fine tomorrow.

a better PP puts 3 or 4 on us.

Clark had some solid moments and some wtf turnovers too, on the PK especially.

The Wilson – Clark pairing looks pretty good though at ES. Am I the only one not wanting Wilson to go down when the other people are back?

Hope McLeod is ok.

Can we officially get Galiardi off the 4th? He looked great on all of his shifts on the higher lines…again.

Wolski spent some time on Duchene’s wing, I thought it worked pretty well. Better than Tucker!

Nice hat tip to the anniversary of Pretty Hate Machine btw…

i’d love to see a line of Jones – Duchene – Hejduk just to see what happens

At the end of the day, while most of us are upset with the way the Avs lost this one. They ended a really tough road trip, 4-1-2 (10 of a possible 14 points)…for a team that wasn’t supposed to win 4 games all year, I’ll take it!

The first poster on this or any other website who lays that loss on Anderson because of ‘rebound control’ on the first goal gets a swift kick to the junk and Le Banhammer de Truthe.

The Minny announcers were commenting that the Wild were successful on the first PP because the Avs weren’t being aggressive. The following PK’s the Avs were forcing the play by the Wild PP unit and it resulted in zero scores, until the last one. Watching that last PK (the one the Wild tied the game on), the announcers’ earlier statements proved true. The four guys stood still in a box and let the Wild pass all around until they got the winning combo of quick passes and position to beat Anderson. They might have well been pylons. Koivu got to the net because SoS was standing above him. Not skating, standing. And Foote has his back to the slot. Two mistakes = PP goal.

I counted at least two highsticks that weren’t called on the Wild, but with the meh PP the Avs rolled last night, I’m not sure it would have mattered.

Wilson had his hit setting dialed into Kobasew all night. The lick in the first period was pretty sweet.

The Baron’s delay-of-game penalty was a backbreaker. Call it a bad break, but he had plenty of time and space to settle that puck. There was nobody within 12 feet of him or even coasting in his direction. Maybe a case of trying to do too much as it looked like he intended to spring Duchene on the bench side of the ice.

Cumiskey has got to shoot the puck when he’s got a clear lane like the one he had in OT. Just gotta.

Paging Paul Stastny. Stastny to the white courtesy phone. Hi Paul. I know you had a little juggling going on with your line tonight, and while I appreciate your faceoff wins (9!), you’ve gotta be more of a factor in games like this. You and Hejduk have gotta finish a scosh more. You guys spend so much time with the puck and are so difficult to contain in the offensive zone, but it seems like you’ve been making one pass too many the last handful of games. You and the Duke just need to relax. Let the game come to you. Lead by example. Insert cliche here. I know you’re tired and that this has been THE definition of a grueling road trip, but my fantasy team NEEDS you to produce. You’re all I got at center until Vinny down in Tampa decides that he wants to play hockey and not just skate around with a stick in his hand. Thanks.

5-on-5, the Wild don’t even sniff the net. And I’m not one to rant about officiating, and I’m not arguing most of the calls agains the Avs, but when one team is dominating 5-on-5, and the other is clutching, grabbing, tripping, hooking, and otherwise interfering to try to keep up, how in the hell does the dominant team only draw 2 power plays? Some serious home cooking going on.

Can’t blame that for the loss, however. If Wolski just settles down and makes a simpler play out of the zone the game probably ends 2-1 or 3-1 Avs in regulation. Frustrating to lose a point and give that suck ass team 2.

that is how I look at this year. Look at it this way, the Washington Capitals took 8 minor penalties in one game, 6 in one period, and lost to the Flyers 6-5 in overtime. It is going to happen, so let it happen early in the season so they learn by it.

This team is doing far better than I thought they would. I anticipated a season of inconsistent play and mistakes, so actually this game was more of what I thought I would be seeing every game. The new kids are smart and sponges; they will figure it out quick enough. The bad contracts will soon be gone. And for those players who aren’t quite playing to their potentional, they may finds themselves wearing a different jersey by the end of this season.