Game 48 Preview: Devils at Avalanche
by David Driscoll-Carignan on Jan 16, 2010 6:00 AM MST
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Yeah, I know. That was a long time ago - almost 9 years?!? The teams are completely different; there are, I believe, just 6 players from those Finals on one of the two rosters tonight (Foote, Hejduk, Brodeur, Elias, Pandolfo, White). It doesn't matter to me, and it shouldn't to you. The 2001 Finals - particularly Game 7 - is my favorite sport's moment of all time, and I don't think it will ever be topped. And I bet a sizeable percentage of you share that same feeling.
So, I could write about how good the Devils are and how Martin Brodeur is still one of the best goalies in the world at age 37. I could write how the Avs have been off all week or how they managed to move into first earlier in the week by being idle or how the Svatos trade rumors are starting or how the Avs are trying to win 3 in a row, something they haven't done since the 13th game.
I could talk about how Nic Bergfors are neck and neck in the rookie scoring race or how the Devils have the best road record in the NHL or how Claude Lemieux is going to be honored before the game.
But that's not where my head will be at this afternoon (3pm eastern start time).
It will be back on June 9th, 2001. It will be with Sakic and Tanguay and Roy and Gary Thorne and Forsberg in a suit and Raymond J Bourque and my tears and my wife's tears and...did I mention Ray Bourque? In reality, tonight's game has very little to do with that magical night. And yet, tonight's game has everything to do with that magical night.
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Calgary lost last night, so the Avs are still in first and control their destiny this evening.
If the Avs get a point, they stay in first. If they lose in regulation, Vancouver would move to first with a win over Pittsburgh, dropping the Avs to 6th and Calgary to 7th
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by David Driscoll-Carignan on Jan 16, 2010 6:48 AM MST reply actions
Or if the Avs get a point, and Vancouver gets a point, they would tie the Avs for first.
The NW division is always so ridiculously close. ‘Cept Minny’s doing a lot worse than I’d expected this year, and the Oilers are the Oilers, even if they did kick the Avalanche around a couple times this season.
Also, I love how Detroit hasn’t cracked the top 8 this season aside from one or two days, a month or so ago.
Is that Dan Hinote hugging Hejduk in that picture? I don’t remember him being on that cup team. Guess it was kind of a long time ago… And Blake looks like he’s photoshopped in there.
I’m goin’ to the game, Woohoo!
Damn I’m hyper, better start my pre-game drinkin’.
meh
by Jimmy_the_scumbag on Jan 16, 2010 7:30 AM MST up reply actions
where is Forsberg? is that him hugging Roy?
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by David Driscoll-Carignan on Jan 16, 2010 10:05 AM MST up reply actions
I have a lot of hatred for the Devils
But, In Lou We Trust is one of best team-based blogs around. I was very impressed. Even though they are arguably the best team in the league they showed deference and respect to the Avs instead of bashing us as a fluke and compared us to Chicago. I think we are a Chicago just a year or two behind.
Avalanche 2009-2010: Ostensibly, the worst team in the league. Realistically, top of the NW division.
This.
I just stopped by there to read their preview and comments, and I am also very impressed. Intelligent, thoughtful, respectful. Such a change from, you know, M&G.
"I think you should win if you have a two-goal lead. When you stop playing and stop working hard, that's when the other team is going to be all over you the whole time." - Peter Forsberg
by NurseBeachie on Jan 16, 2010 11:52 AM MST up reply actions
I sooooo remember that night…. was in vegas with some friends for my bachelor party, we’d been at the Mirage blackjack tables all day and they comp’d us 8 large pizzas from california pizza kitchen (meh, but still 8 large pizzas :) ). so we took our pizzas and sat in the Mirage sports book for the game and got obliterated. Then a group of girls from Boulder noticed our Avs jerseys and sat down with us, then next thing you know there was like 40 people from colorado hanging out in the sports book raising heck…. what a fun night…. I think, it’s all kinda fuzzy
I was on my way back to my in-laws house and listened to the first period on the radio.
My wife and mother in-law were laughing at me because I was pacing the floor through the whole third period, nervous that the Devils would find a way to come back and spoil Ray’s moment. I’d only been married a few months and my wife hadn’t realized my devotion to the Avs yet….
The 2009-10 Avalanche: Have the wheels fallen off?
I'm The Canary - but I'm not cute nor cuddly, and I don't sing.
by Americanario on Jan 16, 2010 9:36 AM MST up reply actions
I was pretty new at my job, out of training but my schedule that day had me working with my training officer, who is also the supervisor. She was being indulgent and letting me watch the game. Lukily it was a quiet shift. I remember being on the phone with my guy at the end crying " we’re gonna win the Stanley Cup!" “We’re gonna win the Stanley Cup!”
I think thats when my co-workers figured out that I am really mentall unstable and a HUGE Fan. Now they just know thats what to expect from me. :-)
"You mess with our Hejduk and the Spirit of Lappy is coming!"-Jibbles
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I was in always-sunny Yuma, AZ. It was me and 2 friends in my barracks room. We were apparently the only hockey fans on base. Sporting my Avs jersey while celebrating with a cigarette and my fourth or fifth beer of the night, we went outside to whoop and holler and celebrate. Everyone else looked at us funny. I missed home.
I should never be taken seriously.... Seriously!
Since I was in the middle of packing to move to CO, I had to resort to walking to the nearest place:a seedy bar down the street from my apartment in Northern CA. Thus, I was by myself at said shitty bar because I knew not a single hockey fan. I had to beg the bartender to put the game on. There were two Avs fans and a Devils fan at the place before long. By the end of the night, even the drunks at the bar were into the game.
"I think you should win if you have a two-goal lead. When you stop playing and stop working hard, that's when the other team is going to be all over you the whole time." - Peter Forsberg
by NurseBeachie on Jan 16, 2010 11:05 AM MST up reply actions
The Devils are in trouble
Wes O’Neill has been recalled
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by David Driscoll-Carignan on Jan 16, 2010 10:08 AM MST reply actions
in fairness, I understand he’s playing much better this year
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by David Driscoll-Carignan on Jan 16, 2010 10:10 AM MST up reply actions
Please, for the love of all that’s holy…
LET CLAUDE LEMIEUX SING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM!!! please, please, please!
"It comes from motivation within" - Matt Hendricks
Mile High Mayhem just another ho-hum Avs blog.
That would be awesome.
"I think you should win if you have a two-goal lead. When you stop playing and stop working hard, that's when the other team is going to be all over you the whole time." - Peter Forsberg
by NurseBeachie on Jan 16, 2010 11:31 AM MST up reply actions
SO....remeber that time when the Avs won the Cup?
yeah….that was awesome
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