There was a game tonight?

I’ve already forgotten. :(

and the final result notwithstanding,

Brandon Yip, has, in point of fact, made Darcy Tucker superfluous (not without the direct collusion of one Mr. Tucker, Darcy).

From my on ice seats (/bragging) what i noticed:
1. probably shouldn’t go into the prevent d to start the 2nd with a 1 goal lead. the avs just didn’t have it tonight, they had no energy.
2. Hendricks had a great game and could eventually devlope into the next lappy (let’s remember it took time for lappy to develope into lappy), Yip had a great 1st period, but I never noticed him on ice afterwards, did the avs shorten their bench?
3. The best player by far was Stewie, his legs are always moving,
4. Duchene holds onto the puck for longer than his body will allow him to. He needs more strenght, if he puts on a bit more muscle (and not a whole lot, we’re talking about a second more) and he’ll be lights out.
5. O’Reilly seems like another guy out there right now, I know he’s getting a ton of minutes especially on the PK, but he’s not sneaking up on anyone any more. He’s never out of position but he’s not making any special plays. I’m not trying to critisize but he’s seems to have leveled off.
6. wilson was solid and foote was pissed off all night, I haven’t seen an angry game out of him like that in forever.

7. Ryan is a cheap wuss. he can’t even dive right, he exploded out of a hit about 5 seconds after the first period ended and 7 seconds after he was hit. I can’t believe he even bothered to do the act. Getslaf is a clone of pronger in that duche mode.

i caught bits and pieces of the game..you could see the ducks gaining momentum as the second went on, even with the avs second goal. when you only fire 15 shots on the net and they fire something like 50, as awesome as andy was, he’s not going to stop them all.

also, there seemed like a generous amout of people at the game, does anyone have any numbers?

We let people treat Anderson like a doormat and neither the team nor the officials protect him. No wonder he was leading the league in goalie penalty minutes for so long…

I blame the D, and Anderson, though it’s hard to lay all the blame on him. After playing a stellar game for nearly 45 minutes, and I mean he was SPECTACULAR…Andy broke down. The 3rd goal he was down WAAAAY too early on. Not a good goal at all.

The defense? Yeah…who forgot that last 15 minutes of the game?

But there is no killer instinct on this team, no finishing ability

Did anyone watch the whole game last night?!! Yes the Avs could have played better but the first goal against Anderson was clear goaltender interference that went uncalled. Ryan set the equivalent of a pick on Anderson and Quincey away from the net allowing Nedermeyer to shoot at a completely open net. Instead of a Ducks goal Avs should of had a powerplay and would have hampered Ducks ability for 2 minutes to generate any substantial offense. Ducks continued to crash into Anderson and he was getting no calls for interference. Perhaps the so called “breakdown” of Anderson happened because he not only had to worry about keeping the puck out of the net he also had to look out for a Duck that would come crashing into him!!!! Anderson played lights out and rightfully was the first star of the night, get off of his back!!! The D was unspectacular and the officials unwillingness to protect Anderson cost the Avs the game. Coach Sacco or Thibault needs to send the league a tape of teams that come crashing into Anderson without a penalty being called it seems as though teams are putting in their scouting report of Anderson that if you run into Andy you can take him off his game (and by the way you will not be called for Goaltender interference). ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!!

Write a self-righteous, preachy piece about the fact that over 1/2 of the fanbase team didn’t show up and how if this lack of support for the box office goaltender continues, it spells the impending doom of the franchise.

Pretty sure you have that one written already, dontcha Adrian?

I flew home to Denver for the holidays and picked this game to go to as my Christmas present to myself.
I was lucky enough to score 7th row seats right next to the AVS goal in the 3rd period – it helped that the place was empty. The Altidudes keep talking about how with the way the AVS play, the crowd will have to start coming back and attendance will go back up. I highly doubt anybody that was at that game will be in a hurry to see that again.
The whole Pepsi center was in shock, well, except for stupid smiling Ryan Getzlaf after he chipped the game winner over Andy.

Avs were playing their 3rd game in 4 nights with tons of travel interpersed, and on the the tail end of a back-to-back.

They’re a young team, they clearly got rattled by the goal against and the ref screw job. I say it was tired legs + young team + a dash of poor officiating, and that’s it. I’m actually not too worked up about the whole thing, though FFS can we at least get the loser point?

FWIW, I didn’t think the shot totals told the whole story either. The Avs were working pretty hard for 2 periods, and had lots of chances. even the first part of the 3rd was pretty good.

You all rock! I have meandered over to the Ducks’ site, as I have often done with other teams’ SBN sites after games, and I’ve yet to see such a killer presence before or after games as we have here. Not only do we have an awesome recap thread, but we have, what, 6 other posts going on right now that went up today? MHH is an incredible community with a lot of great hockey minds. I definitely will be around to read your stuff still and will be back to participate as soon as I can. xoxo!!

Just so I can say I said it first.

Seriously though, wtf is up with that performance?