Well… that sucked but I can’t say my heart is broken. I agree with pretty much everything you said (I think Durno’s hit to the head made him lose his common sense, I lost all sympathy for what happened to him after he decided to lay out not one but two dirty hits) except I don’t think Andy is losing steam. If hadn’t been on top of things tonight it would have been 3-0 in just the first period. The Kings came out really strong- exactly what we should be doing but never seem to be able to.

We lost to the better team tonight, and I hope our boys will use this break to really get motivated for the playoff spot push. In the meantime, GO STASTINATOR AND TEAM USA!!!

When you’re sitting in the stands in front of the most annoying/loudest Kings fan ever.

I gotta think that maybe Anderson was the only one who noticed RN.Beachie in the stands. I thought maybe Stastny was already on a plane to Vancouver, until I saw the aftergame Olympic salute (by the way, uh, thanks for the afterthought, after the game…) Nice of Rusty, Boots and Staz to stick around for that, for the benefit of the 300 fans that did the same.

I don’t think Andy nor anyone else even noticed me, unfortunately, and I was sitting third row right off the face off circle inside the blue line in the Avs 2x offensive zone. During warm ups, I headed down all happy and proud of myself cuz I had my brilliant sign:

But the best reaction I got was the guys skating by reading it. Only McLeod even looked up at me as far as I could tell and he didn’t smile or anything. I’m not quite sure if they were (1) apathetic, (2) offended (tho I’ve no idea why they would be), or (3) divining zen-like energy from it. Whatever it was, I was highly disappointed.

The game was still fun despite the loss. There were TONS of scrums right in our corner. At least the guys were nice enough to do that for me. It’s like the ice was tilted our way. And get this: Liles landed a huge HIT, yes you read that right LILES HIT SOMEONE …and no, I don’t mean just finished a check, I mean a full-fledged, glass rattling, made the crowd around me say “woh” and “damn” HIT. I think he was showing off for me!
; -) Seriously, tho, about Liles. Yes, that PP time has something to do with his minutes but he had tons of time out there on the PK too, believe it or not. I thought I was in opposite land too. Had to ask my friend to verify it for me. He had a pretty good game, guys, at least defensively. I think he’s tired of the nachos.

It would have been better had they won. If they had left the dressing room prior to the second period, perhaps they would have. Of course, I had tons of bets out there about the outcome. And now I will go broke paying a gazillion bar tabs. One of those bets was with this guy who is the biggest of all Kings fans and loves to rub it in my face when they beat the Avs. But instead of doing that last night, he simply texted this: Duchene is something special. You’ve got a hell of a player there.

Two other thoughts: it was AWESOME to see Salei back. I didn’t realize how much I really missed him until I saw him out there. I have always really liked him. Secondly, that shot that blew Quick’s mask off happened right in front of me and it was SO cool! The sound DING and the mask flying through the air, the crowd gasping, them standing and clapping cuz he was okay, me standing and clapping cuz Salei did it. It was beautiful.

At least the Canucks lost today. So, the Avs are still tied with them for number of points (though, the Canucks have two tie breakers versus the Avs: number of wins, and head to head record).

hopefully the olympic break will be good for the av’s and when they come back they will put this loss behind them

and not looking all that great even in some of the wins. They need this break. Oh, and all of the games after the break are definitely losable. DDC, don’t you dare say otherwise.

At first I was thinking of how I was going to sneak out of the party to watch it, but got buzzed and forgot about the game.

Seems the Avs forgot about it as well.