How Are YOU Going to React?

Anderson IS going to lay an egg or two. He did it last year in Florida as well (I think he gave up 5 once or twice, and 6 once…I’m too lazy to look it up). But when you are facing 35+ shots a night in your first year as full-time number 1. That’s bound to happen.

I guess I am expecting some kind of fall, maybe nothing monumental, but I know the Avs are going to start losing games here and there, and I know they are going to lose a few in very frustrating ways (they already have…Minnesota).

At the same time, Stats is JUST starting to play better, and Duchene has yet to really click on the score-sheet, so it could go either way with me.

At the end of the day, I was expecting a whole lot of nothing from this team, and have been pleasantly surprised so far. So it’s all gravy at this point

There are pretty much two ways I can look at this. One is i had predicted this team to win about 30 games and they already are a quarter the way there. So with that being said it should be difficult to get too down if they have even a decent sized slide. The other side of this is now with the early sucess my hopes are up and since only one of our loses has come in regular time im not even sure what it really feels like not to get a point. I also have lots of friends who are Ranger fans and it is never fun to watch your team tumble in the points race against a friend’s team.

If they continue this pace i will obviously be over joyed and probably unable to handle myself come playoff time (the year we lost to minnesota in the 2nd round i was honestly thinking Stanley Cup). Then again last season when things couldn’t have gotten worst unless Arnason was on the 1st line…oh wait nevermind…when things could NOT have gotten any worst i was still watching, and no matter what I will probably do the same this season.

Even when I watch threw bad time I do not want to be disrespected by the Avs upper management so moves must be made if the team starts to fail. They need to plan for next season and hopefully make a big acquistion. This Franchise has so much history in their short time in Colorado already lets not hurt it with a string of 10 disgusting seasons. We have the pieces to be a force for many years to come so lets make it happen!

I have a Toddler and a new puppy to distract me, so while it will be depressing to watch (and we will have to continue to watch, or I’ll cancel Center Ice), I think I’ll be okay.

I know a certain somebody who will be cussing and jumping around a whole lot…

if the avs fall off, i do what i did last year, which is follow university of louisville fighting cardinal basketball and follow up on the team in the paper until if they get hot again. i didn’t watch a whole bunch of games or listen to a bunch of games last year.

really, i love my teams and the only time i get despondent about losing a game are game 7s and should the unthinkable happen and the other school 80 miles down the road beats uofl when it shouldn’t (meaning the football game this year was the exception).

as my next draft pick hard-on, so if the wheels fall off I’m already armed and ready for tanking run 2.0.

In all seriousness, the only expectations I’ll continue forward with this team is they play hard every night. It’s a young roster. They likely won’t keep up such a torrid pace and coming back down from cloud nine will suck, but that’s reality. I’m enjoying the ride even if we lose the next 10 games, it was a fun start.

It helps I came totally armed into the fall season of sports with basement (No jokes, Beachie/Tex) expectations for the Avs and Broncos. It’s been fun and fantastic so far, but losses with come. Doesn’t mean I’m gonna bounce on my teams. Not like I have anything else to do with my life.

I guess I will get some more sleep. When the Avs start to lose some games – and don’t play that fun-to-watch-hockey they are playing right now – I will select the games I will watch so I don’t have to get up every game night at 2 or 3 or 4 in the morning over here in Germany.
But right now I will take every game I get cause this is so much fun to watch.

Nothing would really make me quit watching the games. If the team started to suck as bad as last year I could end up speeding up the game on the DVR in the later periods if the score wasn’t close.

Having said that I’ll watch games regardless of what happens, the thing that would make me lose heart in general would be if the management overreacted to a slide in performance and started trading picks or young players for older veterans.

I’m just along for the ride, I might be a little bummed if they go completely into the tank again, but I just don’t see that happening to this years team—there’s too much accountibility from sacco and the players who play bad don’t play.

You’ve should’ve made this an interactive game;

Which MHH readers have the following point of view:
“I’m not getting my hopes up, every win is great!”

and so on. It’s pretty clear how most posters feel and it wouild keep the blog interesting!

good or bad. I’m just enjoying this while it lasts.

to be perfectly honest, one more year of the tank might be preferable long term. We need another real scoring winger to appear, and I’ve heard this Hall guy might be the man for the job. Or Kabanov.

I’m not going to think that way. I’m enjoying the ride and as always I hope for the best. The best thing about this start is that now the Avs know they can compete. Come he’ll or high water we know the pieces are there to compete with any team in the league.

Last year, looking around the blogs & comments,(not here) supposed Avs fans were saying "I quit supporting the Avs, they’re crap, I will follow “X” team now." I thought that being a fan meant that you supported the team no matter what. Yes, moan and bitch all you like, but you don’t give up on a team because they aren’t successful.

For me, I have been pleasantly surprised by them this year, but my own hopes are now at an unrealistic level. I know I will be disappointed if/when the Avs get a poor string of results. However, I will watch every game I can and be rooting all the way.

These worry me…

30th FO %

27th in shots taken

28th in shots allowed.

That will catch up with us. It’s all curable with coaching and extra time concentrated on these areas.

We just can’t keep begging Anderson to bail us out of every game.

I still expect to just miss the playoffs…but that’s way better than I expected coming into this season. Every win with this team is a gift, and I’m really just hoping they can win enough this year to bring attendance back up.

Of course, a major contributor to poor attendance is the bad economy and the high price of tickets. But still, I don’t want to turn into Phoenix, where every summer we have douchebags trying to buy the Avalanche and move them to Hamilton.

My expectations are now almost 180 degrees from what they were at the start of the season. No, I don’t think they are cup contenders, but I expect the playoffs now (no Mora pic needed here). If they fall off, have bad stretches, or even miss the playoffs, I don’t think I’ll be overly disappointed. They have already shown they now have a future. Something that couldn’t be said most of last season. And they are fun to watch. Something that also couldn’t be said most of last season.

Ten games of solid play is a nice start, but there’s a long season to go and young players without NHL bodies are likely, I think, to get tired.

Craig Anderson might have 70 stellar games of hockey in him, but I doubt it. He’s going to have a rough patch sooner or later and we’re going to take some losses when our propensity to give up shots costs us. That’s OK.

There is still some tweaking for this team – I’d like to see us move an older defender for a young prospect and/or draft picks, because we’re overstacked there.

But having said all that, I love this team, I love the kids, I love how hard everyone’s playing for the majority of games and I love their never say die attitude. This season has already exceeded expectations so from here out, it’s all gravy, baby.

How can anyone not be enjoying this, the expectations were so low that even if they started playing to them this little spurt would have to be consitered a huge sucess if only for the future of the kids on the team.

if we do pull a Phoenix, I hope no one jumps off the wagon.

I would finally be able to follow the team how I expected to this year: angry, somewhat depressed, and looking forward to the draft.

I’d still follow ’em though. No doubt about that.

You all know I’ll still be watching if for nothing else than the hottie Avs’ groins and all.

I’ll stick by them, but like someone else said…if they start to tank again, it would give me a reason to dump CI and save the $50 a month.

I wasn’t expecting the team to be where it is now, i honestly thought if we came out of that road trip with 4 points, i wouldnt lose sleep over it.

now that we are where we are, I would like to see the post season, if anything it would get the people of denver back into it.

If we do go something like 8-25-1..i might cry..just a little

I’ll still be here even if the team falls of a cliff. I might pay more attention to the Buffalo Sabres if the Avs start to falter.
I have a feeling though, that even if this team start losing, they still be 100 times more exciting than they were last season. This picture is proof of addition by subtraction.

If the Avs slide too much for my taste, I’ll follow them from a distance and watch more Pioneer hockey. If the Avs AND the Pios stink it up, I’m kinda hosed. Maybe I’ll have to go down to the ice rink and watch some rec hockey.

I know owe my friend a keg of beer. But frankly I am going to enjoy drinking that beer at his house the next few avs games on his big screen.