Colorado Avalanche Select Matt Duchene
by David Driscoll-Carignan on Jun 26, 2009 5:38 PM MDT
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With the third overall pick in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft, the Colorado Avalanche have selected Matt Duchene from the Brampton Battallion. We have a live draft thread running here discussing this and all the other picks tonight from Montreal.
Welcome to Colorado, Matt!
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I wanted Hedman
but I am absolutely thrilled with Duchene. Excellent, excellent, excellent.
If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding! HOW can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?!
He was thrilled
Anyone else see him cheer and pump his fist when the Lighting selected Hedman? He wanted to come to Colorado!
I don't believe in Peter Budaj.
yes, definitely there
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by David Driscoll-Carignan on Jun 26, 2009 5:56 PM MDT up reply actions
Had to rewind the DVR to watch it again….that was great!
MHH: Like the Avs organization, we’ve now officially lost our minds.
I'm The Canary - but I'm not cute nor cuddly, and I don't sing.
by Americanario on Jun 26, 2009 6:46 PM MDT up reply actions
Love it
Love having a player that fills the badly needed top 6 forward need and who wants to be here. Step 1 to the rebuild is done. Now for the rest of the draft to go well too.
I’m so happy :D Now we just need to get a goalie and we should be back to at least a winning season next year… As long as we don’t trade all our players away, which could be a good thing in the long run though. I want to say that I trust our management, but I think that would make me legally insane…
Go Avs!
by Mike, (Avs Fan) on Jun 26, 2009 6:04 PM MDT reply actions
Thankfully they didnt!
how cool would it be to be selected by the team you root for…
GO AVS!!!
by slapshotr2007 on Jun 26, 2009 6:20 PM MDT up reply actions
Can’t get any worse….
MHH: Like the Avs organization, we’ve now officially lost our minds.
I'm The Canary - but I'm not cute nor cuddly, and I don't sing.
by Americanario on Jun 26, 2009 8:25 PM MDT up reply actions
yea, read that earlier today…
MHH: Like the Avs organization, we’ve now officially lost our minds.
I'm The Canary - but I'm not cute nor cuddly, and I don't sing.
by Americanario on Jun 26, 2009 9:41 PM MDT up reply actions
Duchene
Finally, something went right.
If Sakic did decide to come back then I’d bring up Duchene. It would be the one and only chance he would have to learn from Super Joe.
This Avs team needs Matt’s speed in a bad way.
BTW, I thought I was sooooo clever because I spied the number 9 on the Avs sweater at the Avalanche draft table, until I realized everyone got a jersey with 09.
heh.
I did notice, though, that it looked like his nameplate was affixed to his jersey, rather than velcro’d on as some of the later picks. I don’t know exactly how that works – I know teams bring several nameplates, but do some teams towards the top bring a couple of jerseys?
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by David Driscoll-Carignan on Jun 26, 2009 9:54 PM MDT up reply actions
Wooooooo! Perfect.
I might choose to believe in fate for today, seeing as how Duchene ended up with the Avs. This a fantastic opportunity for Matt and a great pick by the Avs.
the only bad news will be if Joe ends up retiring. It really would be good to get Matt some ice time with Joe.
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