Mike's thoughts on "Game" 66
by Mike @ MHH on Mar 10, 2010 9:58 AM MST
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PrintI'll tell you what the Avalanche needed last night...
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Because they sure crapped the bed!!!!!
Seriously though, they've had two "big" games since the Olympic break (this turd and the Phoenix game) and have wrapped both hands firmly around their collective necks and CHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKKKKKKKKKKKEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD.
Why are they playing this way in big games?
It's like my right hand on a Saturday night:
It beats the fuck out of me.
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To be fair
Every game has been big since the break (Detroit, Anaheim, Phoenix, St. Louis and Vancouver). They’ve been up and down.
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Jibblescribbits: C'mon over and waste some time
by Jibblescribbits on Mar 10, 2010 10:01 AM MST reply actions
Yeah, but if they wanna gain ground or hold onto a mid-level playoff spot, they GOTTA beat the teams around them in that standings. That’s Vancouver and Phoenix. I expect them to wail on the St. Louis’ of the world. Detroit would have been nice too, but they shat the boudoir on that one too.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t hate ’em all of a sudden, but the effort exhibited in those three losses and the first part of the Ducks game is NOT the effort that this team has given all season and is NOT the effort of a playoff-caliber team.
The Avalanche, clearly, are down with No PP.
I’ll say what I said in the other thread. This current Avs team lacks the “killer instinct” of team that have “been there.” That is something that’s going to have to come with time…unfortunately
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It sucks for this year, that is for sure.
I REALLY REALLY hope that we don’t somehow choke and end up out of the playoffs.
The experience from playing in the playoffs is something that we absolutely cannot afford to miss out on for this team.
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by slapshotr2007 on Mar 10, 2010 10:12 AM MST up reply actions
This team is very much like the 94’-95’ Nordiques.
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by An Unmitigated Disaster on Mar 10, 2010 10:35 AM MST reply actions
but I can’t wait 1 year for the Stanley cup. I want it this year
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by Pinchy The Lobster on Mar 10, 2010 11:55 AM MST via mobile up reply actions
I also don’t see our GM Lac Sherman roix pulling off any fleecings based on his old contacts and another’s desperation with the personality of a firey hall of famer. Unfortunately.
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Maybe Luongo or Brodeur or hopefully Miller will have a spat with their GM.
I bet he's got more trophies than the pope and Wayne Gretzky combined!
by An Unmitigated Disaster on Mar 11, 2010 9:54 AM MST up reply actions
I’m not worried. They bounce back well from bad losses. I’m thinking they’ll do well in the home stretch. They’ll make the playoffs at around the 6th-7th seed and get bounced out 4-2. It will be a great experience for them and set them up well for next year. Yeah, this was a crap fest, but come on guys, Vancouver is a really REALLY good team. The Phx loss was heartbreaking but it could have gone either way. That’s one of those “all it takes is one shot” kind of games. Detroit? Well, let’s not talk about that one, shall we? Instead let’s mention the Ducks and St Luis! It will all work out. Don’t you fret my dears.
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Phoenix hurt
But they didn’t play that badly. I chalk that one up more to “Bertuzzi happens.” Last night, however, they definitely Bertuzzied the bed.
Jibbles is an older man so you can trust what he says.
by Bob in Boulder on Mar 10, 2010 10:53 AM MST reply actions
I also said this in another thread:
The Young Guns have not realized the change in momentum that has happened since the break. They are still playing the game like it’s December and not the final few weeks. Every team they have played (with maybe the exception of St Louis) is fighting for a playoff spot (Vancouver is fighting for home ice in the playoffs). Every other team is treating these games as the playoffs and is picking up the pace and intensity. I don’t think the Young Guns were ready for it. It the same thing that might happen to them in the first round. The level at which the game is played changes and the only way to really know how is to play.
Early in the season a lot of the young guys expressed amazement in the difference between their junior/minor clubs and the NHL. Some of them tasted it last season, but the team was in a much different position at this time of the season. They don’t know how to shift in to a higher gear yet. Last night Vancouver did that. It also didn’t help that the Avs made a lot of bad mistakes. But last night Vancouver turned it up a notch higher then some of these players are used to (Detroit and Phoenix did the same to a degree). Hopefully they realize quickly that it’s a different game down the final 20 game stretch and they compensate. They have a little time. In the playoffs they will only have between 4 and 7 games.
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I agree.
Though I do see Dutchy turning it up lately.
In the last few weeks sometimes I swear that I see a 21 out there on the ice. I blink- and it’s a 9.
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I think it was the big Footer shot/save
but there was a play where Duchene’s skating and decisions stunk of Foppa. It was amazing.
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Again, I don’t want to be that guy, but I’ve been saying he’s the second coming of Foppa since before his first goal, when everyone else said he was “Sakic-like.” He’s going to be the Forsberg to SoS’s Sakic.
The 2009-2010 Colorado Avalanche: People can stop waiting for these kids to hit the wall. They won’t.
by NurseBeachie on Mar 10, 2010 3:51 PM MST up reply actions
What, no adult diapers?
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Adult diapers would mean they had some level of PLANNING involved. As upset as I am, I don’t want to believe that.
The Avalanche, clearly, are down with No PP.
Better he gets it all out here.
2009-2010 Colorado Avalanche - On the upside, there's only 17 more (regular season) games of Darcy Tucker left!
Experience
I completely agree that what is lacking is intensity. The kids have not ever played in meaningful end of the season games, they do not know what it takes to win them. This is where Footer really needs to lead them, and where the aquisition of Yelle should help them. The last thing I want this team to do is to back into the playoffs!
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:D I posted it awhile ago, but since I changed Wolski’s head to Muellers, haha. I think the message is especially truthy now.
by xskatebakerrx on Mar 11, 2010 7:54 AM MST up reply actions
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