Avs lose battle for first place 4-2.
by Brett Shumway on Nov 24, 2010 10:47 PM MST
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PrintThe Canucks jumped out to a 1-0 lead about half way through the first period on a delayed penalty as Bieksa redirected the puck up and over Anderson's left shoulder. It was the second infraction called against the Avs in the young period, and obviously the Avalanche did not receive DDC's memo about keeping Vancouver at even strength. The Avs did their part earning two first period powerplays, but never got the offense rolling. The Avs' only dangerous shift came courtesy the 4th line before the Canucks scored. In "silver-lining" news, Foote had to be helped off the ice with about 30 seconds in the period after a weird hit. Leg injury. He did not return. Can you say Holos! Unfortunately, it'll probably be Quincey. So much for that silver lining......
The second period started with Peter Budaj taking over in goal. The Vancouver feed said Andy tweaked something (his groin) in the pregame skate, and that was the likely reason for the change in goal. The Canuck's building hates Craig Anderson. Andy may start getting superstitious with two injuries in two pregame skates in British Columbia - I blame Beachie, but only because I'm superstitious.
McLeod took another bad penalty just over 2 minutes in (he had 3 baddies in the game), but Super Liles negated the man-advantage by yet again jumping up into the play and getting tripped as he took the puck hard toward the net. That nifty play from JML led to a short, yet effective, Avalanche PP where some D to D magic led to a John-Michael Liles one-timer, knotting things up at 1-1. Shattenkirk and Hejduk with the helpers, but it was the Liles show.
Budaj did his best to keep things even, but the evil twins connected on a pretty/annoying play as Henrik sent the puck to a seemingly harmless spot, but his freaky bro directed the pass past Budaj. Before the game the Canucks reunited last season's deadly Sedin-Sedin-Burrows line in hopes to help break the team out of their 4 game slide, it paid off on that play, as it would later. Overall, unless the Avs were on the PP, they could not get going anything going in the 2nd. The Canucks were relentless all period long, carrying the play, and keeping the visitors out of sync. The Avs were lucky to get to the locker room down just a goal.
In the third, a long review of a Kesler shot that hit the post and went straight up in the air and then off of Budaj and in the net, resulted in an eventual 2 goal Vancouver lead. It was ruled no goal on the ice, because it looked like it was hit in with a high stick. However, video review ruled that Tambellini never touched the puck and it was a good goal. I call bullshit. Tambellini didn't hit the puck because he smacked Budaj's face instead, which knocked Budaj's helmet into the puck and the puck into the net. I guess you can lumberjack high-stick the goaltender - when he is standing upright. Makes sense.
The Avs answered back quickly though on a 3 man net crashing party by Yip, Duchene and Liles. The smash mouth goal went to Duchene. Liles and Duchene played great all game. Liles was working hard on his stomach in the Vancouver crease when the red light reluctantly lit, and Duchene had good jump all game. I see another big second half of the season from Dutchie.
But the aforementioned trio of Sedins and Burrows quashed all the happiness out of our Thanksgiving eve when another pretty passing play led to an Alex Burrows goal with just over 6 minutes to go. No chance for Budaj. 4-2 Canucks. The Avs got a late powerplay and pulled Budaj with over 3 minutes to go, but to no avail. I like that Sacco went for it, but it was too little too late. The Avs didn't bring the urgency they needed. They had moments of desperation, but they never really seemed to get it together for any kind of consistency. With first place on the line, I expected more from our boys. They weren't awful, but they were rarely great.
Jones - Stastny - Stewart
Porter - Duchene - Hejduk
Winnik - O'Reilly - Yip
McLeod - Dupuis - Mauldin
Foote - Wilson
Hannan - Shattenkirk
Liles - O'Byrne
- Budaj had some amazing sliding saves and continues to give his team a chance, but the goal off his helmet won the game. Man, if only we werent so lucky.
- I don't know what it is, but the Canucks just seem to suck the life out of the Avalanche (I guess that means the Canucks suck). This isn't the same Avs team that just won 4 in a row.
No rest for the weary. The Avalanche continue their brief Western Canada road trip Thursday against the last place Edmonton Oilers at 7pm MST. Edmonton is 2-6-2 in their last ten games, just 2-5-1 at home this season, and suffers from the worst goal differential in the entire league at -33. If you have to play back-to-backs on the road, Edmonton isn't a bad place to finish up (well, let's hope it isn't anyway). The Oil are still hurting from a 5-0 drubbing on Tuesday at the hands of the rising Coyotes, so this game could be a recipe for Thanksgiving disaster...
Note: this is the only NHL game on the American Thanksgiving. The Avs have 6 Yankees who will be missing out on home-cooked holiday grub: Anderson (Illinois), Liles (Indiana), Shattenkirk (Connecticut), Porter (Michigan), Mueller (Minny), Mauldin (Massachusetts).
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And the Altiboobs mentioned in the post game from Vancouver, that the Oil coach called out the entire team today, so expect them to be hungry tomorrow. Lovely :-{
The Avs defense is "air tight"....so tight it's gasping for air and turning purple.
Ugh, I really don’t like that.
Winnik is a fucking Win!
by Sandie Gauthier on Nov 25, 2010 5:35 AM MST up reply actions
Not to get too picky...
but the Avs are still in first place despite the loss tonight (the Avs have the wins tiebreaker). So was it really a battle for first place?
The Kesler goal really pissed me off. Why should Tambellini be rewarded for failing to hit the puck (like he was trying to do) and instead hitting Budaj’s mask?
by ExiledAmongYou on Nov 24, 2010 10:59 PM MST reply actions
Never mind about the Avs being in first place.
I forgot about the new non-shootout wins tiebreaker.
by ExiledAmongYou on Nov 24, 2010 11:02 PM MST up reply actions
I hate when hockey standings become calculus.
by Brett Shumway on Nov 24, 2010 11:04 PM MST up reply actions
That may be, but Calculus hates us all. Especially bunnies.
by Brett Shumway on Nov 24, 2010 11:07 PM MST up reply actions
Everything hates bunnies
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Python Bunnies.
Those just scare me. It would be like hating a wolverine or a tiger or something.
Just doing what they are ’sposed to do.
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...it’s a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence...from a job application by Hunter S Thompson to the Vancouver Sun. Oct. 1/1958
it fooled Mike Haynes too. He mentioned last night that the Avs would still be in first
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by David Driscoll-Carignan on Nov 25, 2010 6:59 AM MST up reply actions
I hate how the league is punishing wins, even if they come in a gimmick, and yet they are rewarding losing.
Vancouver has 3 loser points to the Avs 1, The Avs have won 2 game in the SO and Vancouver has lost 2 SO games.
The league is throwing out 2 wins by the Avs but counting the 2 losses by the Canucks in the SO.
They should reward the teams for winning the, not losing. If they took away the loser points to decide tiebreakers the Avs would have 25 points (no SO losses) to the Canucks 23pts (2 SO losses.
The Avs defense is "air tight"....so tight it's gasping for air and turning purple.
by Americanario on Nov 25, 2010 9:05 AM MST up reply actions
yeah, it’s really a stupid fix for a stupid system.
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by David Driscoll-Carignan on Nov 25, 2010 9:07 AM MST up reply actions
Monkeys flinging feces at a board?
The Avs defense is "air tight"....so tight it's gasping for air and turning purple.
by Americanario on Nov 25, 2010 9:13 AM MST up reply actions
and obviously the Avalanche did not receive DDC’s memo about keeping Vancouver off the PP.
Wasn’t their fault. The refs were whistle-happy in the beginning, both ways.
My thoughts:
Duchene and Yip, hit the net please. Too many open shots on entry went wide from both of you.
Liles and Shattenkirk continue to impress.
How long will Footer be out this time? The way he tweaked his leg and then gingerly went off was not encouraging.
Well done, penalty kill. To both sides, since Vancouver’s brought the Power Kill back out.
Speaking of the Power Kill… Wilson is still on the pp point for some reason, I’m sure, right?
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I don’t know which of the Avs penalties weren’t justified. I missed the holding call on McLeod, but the other 3 penalties all seemed totally valid
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by David Driscoll-Carignan on Nov 25, 2010 7:01 AM MST up reply actions
I didn’t see McLeod’s elbow. Not that it mattered because the Avs were skating in MUD most of the night.
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I thought the elbowing penalty was a bad call. I’m not saying that he wasn’t playing rough, cause he was, but I didnt like it.
I found it really interesting that Rycroft thought that McLeod’s boarding call was BS. I suppose that was hard to avoid when the guy turns last minute, but it looked plenty dangerous to me. The officials called that as a ‘player might have been hurt’ call instead of a ‘perpetrator broke the rules’ call. Thats pretty much ok with me. Hard hockey or not, I don’t want anyone hurt on that sort of play.
Thanks Joe...
According to my observations during the GT, they were all bad calls.
by Pinchy The Lobster on Nov 25, 2010 10:04 AM MST up reply actions
Welp, no more murfred Game Thread pics in a row.
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I’m blaming him
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by David Driscoll-Carignan on Nov 25, 2010 7:01 AM MST up reply actions
I blame you for jinxing him. IMO the rules of the shutout also apply to the win streak.
Fuck you Mr. Potatohead
but I mentioned the streak every time, so if I didn’t mention it, it would have been a jinx
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by David Driscoll-Carignan on Nov 25, 2010 7:14 AM MST up reply actions
As a side note,
I don’t really think that Mueller will be missing out on dinner… :-)
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A few thoughts;
Couldn’t count the number of times I got the “did you know your jersey says douche on it” treatment tonight. I’m all for the ribbing at people, but fuck do Vancouver fans piss me off.
- Duchene and Liles were the players to watch tonight. I thought Shatty was pretty good too.
- The penalty calling tonight was awful for both sides, but the Avs just ended up with more bad penalties. All around poor refing but certainly not the blame for the outcome
- Lets get Holos back up in Burgundy, and beat the snot out of a hurting Edmonton team
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by RyanO'Reilly FanClub on Nov 24, 2010 11:50 PM MST reply actions
Tambellini play hitting Budaj’s mask: weird as hell. I’ve never seen that before.
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A few thoughts….
Tambellini’s “goal”, imo was good because the puck hit Budaj’s stick on the way in to the net. ?able, but I didn’t mind that much.
All you have to do is look at the Avs record with Foote in vs Foote out to know this is not a good thing.
The holding call against McLeod was weak
Fuck. Andy’s hurt again. Good thing our backup is pretty damn good. Wish I would have called him for more than 13 starts.
Overall, the Avs just didn’t bring enough to win this kind of game. Kinda disappointing.
Hockey- goddamn it's cool.
Puck hit Budaj’s head, Tambellini hit Budaj’s head, Budaj’s head recoiling backwards from Tambellini’s hit directed the puck into the net. By the rules it is a goal, BUT there should have been a high stick penalty on Tambellini for hitting Budaj in the head. Unfortunately penalties aren’t reviewable, in this type of case, it should be reviewable.
The Avs defense is "air tight"....so tight it's gasping for air and turning purple.
by Americanario on Nov 25, 2010 9:08 AM MST up reply actions
Even if Tambellini hadn’t hit Bood’s head, I think that puck is still going in the net. So the call doesn’t really bother me that much. I wish the puck had come down in a slightly different place so it didnt happen, but im not too upset by the goal.
Actually, one of things I was wondering… The high stick to Budaj’s head… would that have been high sticking, or goalie interference?
Thanks Joe...
Isn’t any penalty on the goalie considered a Goalie Interference penalty?
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Give credit to Vancouver. Their first D pairing shut down the DPC line well. They gave Stewie and Davie no room at all. Very very very very few teams can do that but damn did they do it well.
With that said, Duchene’s line was able to find room. I like that but it was not enough.
I hate when we go on nice streaks and have a 3 day break. It always seems to kill our momentum we just looked flat and unenergetic. I except the lawinengefahr to come out tonic in force.
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We can’t win against Vancouver and didn’t deserve a single point yesterday.
That being said, it’s ridiculous that goals count despite a high stick right at the goalie’s mask. If it’s not reviewable, it should be. If it is, that goal shouldn’t have counted.
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what I want to know is this. IF the refs catch that high stick, does the goal count? No Avalanche touched the puck after the enfraction, so does the play ever get whistled dead?
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by David Driscoll-Carignan on Nov 25, 2010 7:05 AM MST up reply actions
I think you could call it goalie interference.
That would negate the goal even though no Canuck touched it after Tambellini whacked Boods.
by ExiledAmongYou on Nov 25, 2010 8:39 AM MST up reply actions
I think
That is why they were talking about bringing in that “coach’s challenge” idea so that a coach could challenge a goal if he thought there was a penalty that should have negated the goal.
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I think Cody Mac said it best during his interview when he said the Nucks were really shutting them down in the neutral zone. There just really wasn’t much offensive momentum for the Avs.
I agree with StiflersMom about the Tambellini’s goal being all sorts of ridiculous.
And when you can’t score a goal when you are up 2 men (and can barely keep it in the zone) yeah, you don’t really deserve to win.
I think Boods must have gotten the memo around these parts about his positioning and sliding, because I thought he looked great. None of the goals either goalie allowed were soft, and the goals against could have been a lot worse. What I don’t understand is how Boods can make so many great glove saves, except when it is on the short side. I’m not a goalie, so I don’t get why that makes such a big difference for him.
Liles is, well, just awesome.
I hope Andy recovers soon. And, I hope these injuries don’t continue this year for him, because in a contract year that could make management a bid skiddish.
Here’s hoping for a much better game tonight.
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I hope Andy recovers soon. And, I hope these injuries don’t continue this year for him, because in a contract year that could make management a bid skiddish.
I disagree. I think management expects a 10-13 finish for this team and if an Andy injury can help in the draft order department AND lower Andy’s asking price they’ll be clapping their hands like little girls at a doll shop.
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Days off. Never a good sign. The boys came out flat and just kept getting flatter.
Notable exceptions: Liles and Dutchy looked great, Shatty and Winnik looked really good, and I thought Hannan had a good game. Boods was good. (Other than being the suxxors for heading in an own goal. It ain’t soccer, buddy. What a weird goal.)
Radar had an awful give-away in his own zone, which is very un-Radar of him.
Cody Mac: Stop being a liability. I like you and the energy you bring, but just stop it.
Basically, they didn’t play a bad game, but for the most part there wasn’t any fire and you just ain’t gonna beat the Nucks unless you want it.
Vancouver’s first goal: Didn’t an Avs player play the puck such that it should have been whistled dead? What was that?
Foote’s injury looked like a knee-on-knee to me. Did it look that way to anyone else?
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Just watched the replay: Maybe the Av player didn’t play the puck on the Nucks first goal, but it could easily have been whistled. Footer’s thing still looked like a knee-on-knee to me.
By the way, did the NHL ever review that jerk that cross-checked Dutchy to the face a few games ago? What ever happened to that?
Vancouver’s first goal: Didn’t an Avs player play the puck such that it should have been whistled dead? What was that?
I thought that as well, but, isn’t the rule that the player has to have possession? The Avs player just whacked at the puck trying to get it out of the zone, he never controlled it, that may have been the difference….maybe.
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by Americanario on Nov 25, 2010 9:11 AM MST up reply actions
they do have to have posession
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by David Driscoll-Carignan on Nov 25, 2010 9:16 AM MST up reply actions
Correct. Unless it’s beer league, then they just to have intent…
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Beer league has no rule for that. And the faceoff afterwards is wherever the first team says it is. Except when you forget to say sir, then it’s a game misconduct for being unsportsmanlike.
Unless the 30-second line change is still ongoing, then it’s a delay of game for the team that had their guys on the ice in a timely manner.
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Ha, atleast my league follow proper rules, except for getting a 2 minute penalty for tripping someone who skated straight into my pad and stick seconds after I swept the puck away from the net. That was an… odd call. And the almost delay of game because I couldn’t pad up quick enough to replace the injured goaie despite the fact I was there solely to watch the game and had to wear the other goalies old, small gear which he had to take off almost completly before I could start getting ready. Other than that and num erous other BS calls my league’s better than yous
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DGB
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My Avservations from last night:
1. The team certainly didn’t deserve to win. They looked flat, and made bad passes and plays with the puck all over the ice.
2. Is Jones hurt again? He looked painfully slow, almost like he couldn’t move out there. Very unJonelike.
3. The hit that hurt Foote was a knee on knee. And he was rightfully pissed. And wasn’t it Tambellini who did it? The same guy who whacked Budaj in the head for the game winning “goal?” But, per an annoying custom throughout the years, nobody on the Avs made the asshole pay for either case of douchery.
4. The first line was for the most part invisible. The 4th line generated better scoring chances.
5. We just can’t compete with that team for some reason. I know we somehow salvaged that one point. But these last two games have been prettty putrid.
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it’s not even “can’t compete”, it seems more like not interested in competing. Like Paul says in the recap, the Avs just come out flat against Vancouver game after game. The end results are usually a loss AND a dreadfully dull game.
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by David Driscoll-Carignan on Nov 25, 2010 9:17 AM MST up reply actions
True. I remember thinking to myself last night, “The Canucks aren’t even playing well. We’re just playing like Bertuzzi.”
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by Bob in Boulder on Nov 25, 2010 9:35 AM MST up reply actions
Imagine how flat Detroit has to be to lose a game since they roll 4 1st lines.
by Pinchy The Lobster on Nov 25, 2010 9:51 AM MST up reply actions
And have one of the greatest defenders of all time stuck on the 2nd defensive pairing. With a surefire HHoF’er on the bench as a back up.
The Savage has spoken. Let it be done
December, 1995 - In a strong statement that still resonates to this day, the Montreal Canadiens make it clear to Patrick Roy that the franchise will simply not tolerate championship-calibre goaltending.
DGB
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference"
R. Frost
I agree with No. 3, Bob. If Chris Stewart’s not gonna do anything offensively, he should at least dole out some punishment to the guy who knocked Foote out of the game and who was yucking it up on the bench after he swatted Budaj in the head.
Finally, I wanna thank God, because God gave me this Dundie. And I feel God in this Chili's tonight.
by Dan Winkler on Nov 25, 2010 2:40 PM MST up reply actions
Thanks for the recap because I don’t remember much of it. Or the rest of last night. I have no bruises which is good.
by Pinchy The Lobster on Nov 25, 2010 9:38 AM MST reply actions
Random "just woke up" thoughts:
The top line was invisible tonight.
I don’t think I’ve yelled at my tv as much in a long time.
Is Craig Anderson just in terrible shape? He keeps hurting himself warming up. That’s bad conditioning!
We need Adam Foote. 8-2 with him in the lineup. He’s doing something right.
The Canucks score on the same play every time: Shoot towards the net, get some kind of weird tip in.
It’s cold in LA today. Not cool. Pun.
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The top line was invisible. I meant to mention this in my after game thoughts. Like INVISIBLE. certainly not in must win territory, but all of the playoff teams in the league would find a way to beat Edmonton tonight after a lack luster performance like the Av’s had last night.
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by RyanO'Reilly FanClub on Nov 25, 2010 10:54 AM MST up reply actions
Why is Andy’s injury my fault?? I was stuck at DIA waiting for a non-broken plane to take me to CA!! (The first one got about 20-30 minutes out and had to return back to the airport. Lovely, eh?)
I think you should say Liles’ great play is cuz of me. Plllllbbbbbbbtttttttttt.
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by Cheryl Bradley on Nov 25, 2010 10:53 AM MST reply actions
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