Mission accomplished is right!

The Thrash deserved the point they got. We played like shit for the majority of the game but like you said, more often then not we refuse to die!

the second, I almost feel asleep on my couch! Glad I stayed awake for the 3rd and OT!! The team can’t dwell too much on this game though. They have 2 RED hot teams coming to town on Friday and Saturday in Phoenix and LA. Another effort like the one in the first 50 or so minutes and we are going to only have a short glimpse of 3rd place in the West.

Only very good teams can pull off wins like these. I remember watching a Sharks game last year where they played awful for the first 50 minutes, turned it on for the last ten and scored three goals to win the game. Just more evidence that this team is no joke.

Nice game, after the first 40-50 minutes.

Road Runner was just sick on that goal. The Atlanta defenders kept waiting for someone else to pick him up and he just kept going. MEEP MEEP!

So that’s what Hedberg was freaking out about? No one sitting near me could figure it out. He was PISSED at that Durno goal and it confused the hell out of me. The waved off Atlanta goal looked pretty clearly not to go over the line from where I was sitting, but I haven’t watched a replay. The crowd was pitiful, but the effort was worse until the 3rd Thrasher goal. Once they started playing they played really well, I just wish they wouldn’t wait until they were down 2 goals to start playing.

NHL on the Fly really talking up the “resilience” of this young team that “shouldn’t be able to come back like this”.

Does anybody else think Peter Ruttgaizer needs to quit using French pronunciations for things?

For the first 50 minutes of this game, I swore that I was watching Budaj in the Granato / Cloutier shooting gallery. That was some seriously half assed bullshit. In truth, it aspired to half assed, quarter assed might be more accurate.

Footer – thank you very, very much, Mr. backup goaltender! It pretty much makes up for that abjectly terrible play on the ATL first goal. I mean, giving up the blueline like it wasn’t yours, failing to play the man even though you had defensive support and then dropping on the shot so ineffectively as to achieve only one thing – goaltender interference. It was such a piss poor display that I was sure that it was Clark. Really.

Clark – Nice aggression in the offensive zone. Made you look good. Let’s just hope that the scouts and GMs paying attention didn’t notice you behind your own blueline (or on the PP point BTW, what the fuck?), ’cause, well, yeah, not so much.

Durno – Thanks for being one of the few to actually play like you cared for the whole game. It paid off. In spades!

Dutchy, Yip, Wilson – Skated for most (certainly not all) of the game like you gave a shit. Thanks.

Roadrunner – WOW!! Also noticed you frequently on the PK. I thought you acquitted yourself well.

Haydar – Note for the future, pulling your Tucker impersonation (falling down behind the net when the puck comes near you) is not the way to stick with the big club. Unless, of course, you have pictures of PL with a goat like Darcy does.

Svatos – You know you’re auditioning for a job, right? I don’t remember seeing you as weak on the puck as you were tonight – and that’s saying something!

Stewie – See what happens when you get your nose dirty? Good things happen! They don’t all need to be pretty, they just need to count!

Haydar, sorry man, but you are not NHL material. defense is required at this level.

I didn’t think the game was nearly as bad as most of you did. Until that penalty sequence in the second period the Avs were equal in shots, and I actually thought they were playing well in the first.

That said there was some sloppiness all game, and they allowed too many counter attacks, which is why Atl had what felt like better chances. But I thought the Avs controlled the puck well in the 1st and 3rd periods. I was sitting near the attacking end for those periods, and it sure felt like play spent more time near me there for all three periods.

Zach Bogosian and Tobias Enstrom. Your jock straps were left on the ice after the game, immediately following the Cumiskey goal. If your items are not claimed in the next 7 days, they will be donated to goodwill. Thank you.

HAHAHAHA

Also have the jock of one Johan Hedberg?

Cumiskey…I shall continue to eat crow about you my friend!

Moser’s call is downright funny:
http://www.hostergy.com/audio/5-94613726a7.html

what a pathetic crowd. i cant believe thats all that shows up when we are 1st in the division. but i did get to upgrade to on the glass seats.

i completely thought we were destined to lose this one. i was screaming for them to move during the power play in the 1st. the power play was going NOWHERE. and wow there were a ton of turnovers in the first two.
random-Haydar isnt very tall i dont know what he is listed at but he was shorter than everyone else.
oh did anyone else notice that Andy had a new mask last night? i never could tell what all was on it i didnt even notice it until the game started even i took a ton of pictures.
great to see Durno get a goal i will always root for guys like that he definatly didnt have the easy way into the league.

Although at times the team may have looked like last year’s team, there is one huge difference between the two: last year’s team would have lost the game. Last’s year team would have given up when it was 1-3, and last year’s team would not have had the offensive talent to score 3 goals very often. The ability to battle back when they are down, and the ability to win even when they have 3 goals or more scored against them are two huge reasons this year’s team is successful. Hopefully DDC or whoever did the first analysis of the goals for/goals against mid-season will do that again at the end of the season, because I believe that even though the numbers were prett consistent with last year’s at mid-season, I think there will be big difference in the numbers by the end of the season.

That Foote save was HUGE, and it was the difference between winning in overtime and losing in regulation.

And that 3rd goal, Anderson owns that one. Ugly.

Talk about an all out effort on that GOAL I mean two guys diving to try to hit the puck in the net we could be saying just as much praise for Cody Mac if his stick had hit the puck great to see our Grinders putting forth as much if not more effort at times then our top forwards!!

It was an ugly first 2 1/2 periods to watch but a fun final 10 minutes 9 seconds!!!

But hey, things are looking up on the marketing front Av-aholics. I saw an actual billboard off the highway today (northbound, I-25 and 58th Ave). It had Avs players in it and everything. That’s the first Avs-related billboard I’ve seen in many years around here.

Per Dater in the newest “All About Avs” entry

WE DID IT!!!!!!

When he does finish those chances, he may be one of the best penalty killers in the league.

5 for 5 sounds much better as:

Every penalty shot EVER

So I re watched the last 1/3 of the 1st period, and I still think the Avs and Thrash were pretty even the first period. Obviously the 2nd they played awful, but i don’t think the game was nearly as bad as others here.

There were some defensive miscues, but I thought the forwards did a good job of keeping possesion and cycling the puck tonight, for the most part.

was there anyone on the ice who wasn’t deked out of their shorts by RR? I don’t think so. That was as good or better as when federov stickhandled past 5 guys and the goal tender about 10 years ago.

Anyone notice how hard Galli was hitting last night? Guys working his way to the top of my list for sure. I said during the first that I felt like I was watching the “TJ Galliardi Show.” That kid was tearing it up in every spot possible.

Other thoughts:

Haydar was a liability out there. Ugh.

Clark had a pretty solid game. Had a nice physical game and a few good D-zone breakouts. Nice to be able to say that.

Durno goal was awesome watching 4 guys diving for the puck.

Cumiskey. Slowed down after gaining the zone then rocketed up to speed in 1 step. Wow.

It was his first NHL game this season and he doesn’t have much NHL experience. maybe he plays well tomrrow?

I will take Haydar over Svatos. Haydar at least wants to be playing with the Avs, and will be motivated to earn some playing time up with the big show. Svatos is just waiting for his ticket out of Denver, and doesn’t seem invested in the team. I’d like to see Haydar play a few games, see what he’s got.

“I saw two defenceman not taking anybody in front of the net,” he said. “They let him walk right in. I’ve never seen that in my life before.”

Awesome.

I am sure this has been covered multiple times but is there a place IN DENVER, not online, that does twill lettering? I suspect Jibbles would have found it by now if there was, huh Jibs? For whatever reason, I was under the impression there was and thus did not get my third jersey cuz I figured “I’ll get it when I’m there” like a dipshit.

Maybe the rule is different than I’m thinking it is, but the fact that McLeod touched it with a high stick shouldn’t matter. The high stick call would be negated when the goaltender touches the puck. Therefore, the boys in stripes made the right non-call.