Monday Morning Open Thread
by David Driscoll-Carignan on Apr 4, 2011 7:00 AM MDT
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The one thing about weekends that kind of sucks is that they are ultimately followed up by a Monday. Stupid Monday.
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Little Chia took to the ice for the first time:
His brother of course, is the consummate pro (his first real hockey lesson tonight), so he had some pointers before we went out:
Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
by chiavsfan on Apr 4, 2011 7:33 AM MDT reply actions 4 recs
The older kid has an Avs hat on…his Avs jersey is too small, and we don’t have the funds for a new one (but he’s pressuring me for a Duchene)
Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
Freakin' Adorable
Your little dude with the avs sweater is probably the coolest kid ever.
on a different note
F the red wings, indeed. (and Calgary)
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Congrats to Canary for the MHH Fantasy Hockey League win! The Zamboni League will finish up this week.
Thank you and thanks to all who played.
Datsyuk may have done it first, but he learned it from Peter Forsberg.
Thanks for everything Foppa!
We can do a full post later once the Zamboni League is done. That way we can laud you in all of your well deserved glory.
by MalachiConstant on Apr 4, 2011 9:36 PM MDT up reply actions
Russo (Wild Beat writer)
Russo explains exactly why everyone should be cheering for the Avs to play hard… and lose in regulation. Look at how meaningless late season victories screwed the Wild this season.
As an Avs fan and Wild hater, this article pleases me to no end. They had the chance to be truly awful again this season… and went on a meaningless late season run which did nothing but net them a worse draft pick. It’s like spectacular failure.
Avalanche Shutouts are a powerful Aphrodisiac
Jibblescribbits: C'mon over and waste some time
So, yesterday found a team Sweden Forsberg jersey for $15, have an interview for a better position with my company today, and have seats 3 rows off the glass for the game on Sunday. It’s a damn good week already.
maybe an internet pipe froze and burst
MHH: No Palce four Typos
holy cow, are there more of them? i want in on this!
"I’m predicting 50pts in the NHL for Hensick next season. Anyone want to put $20 on it?" - DetAvs, Jun 18, 2010 3:45 AM EDT
Got it at the local thrift store, I was so freaking excited when I saw it. Always have my eyes peeled for hockey jerseys, but this is the first time I’ve actually found one, and it actually fits perfectly.
maybe an internet pipe froze and burst
MHH: No Palce four Typos
Meant to be.
Winnik is a fucking #Winner. Le P'tit Français est un Des Boys. Can Johnson bring me loads of happiness? Bucket Loads. Ryan O`Byrne must have #TigerBlood
Because 30 is different than 20.
by Sandie Gauthier on Apr 4, 2011 10:16 AM MDT up reply actions
As bad as this late season collapse has been, for some reason this team doesn’t seem like the same complete and utter abortion that 2008-2009 was. Reason for hope? Or have I been smoking rainbow unicorn tail today?
We see a wonderful sun-soaked city nestled at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. Enos sees nickels and dimes.
this team has talent and youth. 08-09 didn’t.
"I’m predicting 50pts in the NHL for Hensick next season. Anyone want to put $20 on it?" - DetAvs, Jun 18, 2010 3:45 AM EDT
No, I’m with you. Their record is worse this year, but they were a worse team back then. I literally thought the team was a 15 year project then. Now—given adequate sacrifices to the concussion gods—they only look a few years off.
15 years, really? I would think 5 years at the most. I suppose there are some teams that never seem to get off the ground though.
What. The islanders didn’t want a piece of that rebuilding?
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by An Unmitigated Disaster on Apr 4, 2011 1:36 PM MDT up reply actions
I wasn’t here in the season that didn’t exist, so I really can’t compare the two. But I do have hope for next year. We were competitive for half of the this season before injuries decimated us to the point of no return, so there’s no reason why we wouldn’t be a contender next year if we can stay healthy (pray to the hockey gods for new boards at the Can, some summer yoga lessons for the players, and little good luck) and fix some glaring holes in our roster (goalie, power forward, top pairing defenseman). We’re young, we have talent, and most of the pieces are there. So next year will be better…. that is, assuming our ownership gives a damn and will help fix our problems.
Jumpin' on the Johnson bandwagon.
Good Goalie. THIS SUMMER. Make it Happen, Sherman!
I was here for that. This definitely feels different; better. I am not that sad at this terrible point, but I feel like its all part of a process and plan. Well, not the injuries, or the goaltending, or… well, I am definitely more hopefull than a coupe years back.
Thanks Joe... Thanks Peter....
This year is much easier to explain because we were hot early on, and now we don’t have the same players, like Mueller, Flash and Stewart. Not that I think Stewart would be helping us much, but he was playing great early on. I’m not worried at all about next year, when there will be something to play for again, and we should have some healthy players (to start anyways). Also, I don’t see how our bad luck with injuries could continue. The odds are that we’ll get a healthy season soon. In roulette, if it’s been hitting on red several times in a row, bet on black.
Without healthy (GOOD) D and a Goalie worth a damn...
I don’t see us getting any better. I do see us fixing that problem this off-season (please!) and then there’s Landeskog.
Living in the D, but It's All About The A.
by Avalanche318 on Apr 4, 2011 12:08 PM MDT up reply actions
I think if we had the ability (and desire) to play really good offense and put pressure on the opposing team, our defense would seem much better, which would make our goalies look really good too. The last half of the year, it seems like we lost the desire and we definitely lost some fire-power and chemistry with injuries. I don’t know if the desire was somewhat on purpose (tank) or maybe our younger team just got tired. I do hope that we go after Bryz or Vokoun in the off-season though. It’s the only position I think we need to spend the big bucks on, at this point anyway.
Mueller. Never. Played. A. Game. This. Season.
Why must we keep acting like the team tanked in part because Mueller disappeared. The team was winning without him also.
His 82 man games lost are inflating the team figures and just serving as an excuse.
"I’m predicting 50pts in the NHL for Hensick next season. Anyone want to put $20 on it?" - DetAvs, Jun 18, 2010 3:45 AM EDT
by Hardshell_Taco_del_Lowayne on Apr 4, 2011 12:35 PM MDT up reply actions
BTW, I don’t think the team tanked because Mueller was not playing. I’m not sure if they tanked at all. If they didn’t, you could easily blame it on injuries and youth. You have to remember how young this team is. Youth in the NHL is rarely consistent, and I’m happy with what we had earlier this year and I’m not upset about getting a good draft pick either. I understood last summer that we were still missing a couple youngsters to complete our rebuild, and now we may have them soon. It’s hard to rebuild without good draft picks. It had to be done sooner or later, I prefer the sooner.
If youth is rarely consistent, why was ours consistently bad?
/philosoraptor
I make music. I don't think it's despicable, do you?
They weren’t consistently bad over the course of the year, they did quite well in the beginning. Are you forgetting that we had the best 5 on 5 offense in the league at one point? Also, Duchene went through a slump and then picked it up again while the rest of the team didn’t. It won’t be long before Duchene is consistently good. Throw in a couple guys like RNH and Flash, and our offense will be right back where it was in the beginning of the year. Don’t be too shocked if they can’t keep it up for the entire year though.
Youth is why I was furious at the lack of offseason signings last summer.
"I’m predicting 50pts in the NHL for Hensick next season. Anyone want to put $20 on it?" - DetAvs, Jun 18, 2010 3:45 AM EDT
by Hardshell_Taco_del_Lowayne on Apr 4, 2011 12:56 PM MDT up reply actions
Yeah but because we didn’t, we are now closer to finishing the rebuild. Our youth got a lot of ice time and they will benefit from that, no matter where we finish. It’s good that we finished at the end of the pack though, because now we are on track for the rebuild. Last year sucked because we blew a very good chance to get Taylor Hall on our team. The silver lining was our youth was able to play in the playoffs though. I would trade that for Hall any day.
What the Avs need to guard against at all costs is creating a culture of defeat like you see in Long Island and Florida. The whole organization in both cases doesn’t know what to do to win. Tampa was heading that way until Yzerman grabbed them by the collar and dragged them back toward the light.
"It's all about the $"
I think those teams have horrible management, and that’s the difference between our team and theirs. Losing is not bad, it’s how you handle the loss that everyone needs to learn. Also, management will learn who can handle a loss and who brings the locker room down. Those players will be weeded out. So, I agree with you, but I think our team has a good handle on it.
The reason I brought up Tampa is that they had incompetence in management that started with ownership. I don’t know that KSE is incompetent, but they are definitely negligent.
"It's all about the $"
I think those teams have horrible management, and that’s the difference between our team and theirs
I’m sorry, but I have to disagree. Management is an absent landlord at best, incompetent at worst. They hung this team out to dry and by extension, it’s fans.
Losing is not bad, it’s how you handle the loss that everyone needs to learn.
Do you think that the team have learned by now? Losing occasionally or in a close game is important, but this extended losing streak (10 games of losses followed by 1 or 2 wins, then another 10 games of losses etc) is only teaching them bad habits.
Sacco knows his paycheque is guaranteed for next season, and the team doesn’t even seem upset at losing anymore. It has become a habit and I honestly think the team is okay with losing.
Farewell Peter.
Rebuilding. Does. Not. Mean. Exclusively. Young. Players.
Young players will play like young players. Any young person in any career will benefit from the wisdom of a veteran. Think of a police rookie. Now imagine that rookie paired with another rookie. Then think of their backup in another squad car as two more rookies.
They go to a major incident. None of them perform as well as they should, because they are inexperienced and make mistakes. They eventually do learn the right way, but they do it only after a lot of errors and pain. It stunts their growth, because they have to spend a lot of time discovering the right way to do things.
Now imagine the same scenario, but with one experienced veteran cop. There is still 3 young cops who have youth, but one older cop who they can learn from. He takes charge and tasks the young officers, explaining the pitfalls or potential hazards, so they don’t have to find out the hard way.
Time and pain saved, maybe some lives saved.
One of the FAs available last year was Manny Malhotra. The Avs passed on him. Until his injury, he was second in faceoffs won and is a PK expert. How useful would he have been to help Radar? Show him some tips and techniques. Or Stastny, or McClement or Duchene for that matter.
Rebuilding means getting rid of everything that’s broken and making it whole again. It does not mean raiding the daycare centre and throwing them all into a situation, saying: “Get on with it”
Farewell Peter.
Can I be the crazy one that’s always in the lieutenant’s doghouse? I always have to be the short-timer that gets shot in the shoulder.
Leiutenant : “Andy Goddamnit! Turn in your badge and gun! you are a discgrace to this force!”
Andy: “When I see a bunch of weird guys in robes stabbing someone in a park I shoot first and ask questions later”
Leiutenant: “That was a shakespeare in the Park production of Julius Cesar!”
An inevitable consequence of complex chemistry.
I find it more difficult to watch these final games this year than I did last time. This is such a talented team and it breaks my heart to see them like this. That team? Arnason as the first line center. Sakic and the Snowblower. There was no hope so it didn’t matter. With hope, it hurts more.
I don’t think Dufresne was quite right…
"My name is still Cameron Awesome, and I still play defense, yo! (Though, admitedly, I really do need to learn how to fight.)"
Avalanche Breakaway: a blog of hockey goodness
by Cheryl Bradley on Apr 4, 2011 3:08 PM MDT up reply actions
We need to lose our next game. For real. I want that STL pick this year.
Thanks Joe... Thanks Peter....
Unfortunately, if all goes well, then we’d be better off getting it next year, for several reasons.
1. Next year’s draft will reportedly be much deeper with high-end talent than this year’s.
2. Next year’s St. Louis pick won’t be protected, meaning if they really suck eggs next season we could get another premium pick.
3. If we don’t suck eggs so bad next season, we won’t be sending them such a high 2nd rounder in return, like we will this year.
We see a wonderful sun-soaked city nestled at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. Enos sees nickels and dimes.
by Bob in Boulder on Apr 4, 2011 10:58 AM MDT up reply actions
That is a pretty good point (#3). Also, I’m hoping that Zack Phillips will continue to be ranked near the end of the first round, so he may be available in the second. I just don’t get how he’s ranked so low. I understand he may need to work on his skating but they say that about a lot of players, and it’s something they can learn. However, you can’t really learn the natural offensive awareness that he has.
Sums up my thoughts.
It would be nice to get a defenseman this year, get him developing (defense takes longer to develop), then take forwards next year so all this talent is maturing around the same time.
"I’m predicting 50pts in the NHL for Hensick next season. Anyone want to put $20 on it?" - DetAvs, Jun 18, 2010 3:45 AM EDT
by Hardshell_Taco_del_Lowayne on Apr 4, 2011 12:55 PM MDT up reply actions
point #3 is the revelation I had a few days ago. That is a key factor.
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by CrankyPete on Apr 4, 2011 12:57 PM MDT via mobile up reply actions
You’re living in the past.
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by An Unmitigated Disaster on Apr 4, 2011 1:39 PM MDT up reply actions
you need a ‘Landeskog’ one.
fyi, if you google Landeskog sandie’s article is the third thing up there.
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by An Unmitigated Disaster on Apr 4, 2011 1:40 PM MDT up reply actions
Really?!
Winnik is a fucking #Winner. Le P'tit Français est un Des Boys. Can Johnson bring me loads of happiness? Bucket Loads. Ryan O`Byrne must have #TigerBlood
Because 30 is different than 20.
by Sandie Gauthier on Apr 4, 2011 1:43 PM MDT up reply actions
Saw an Arnason jersey last night. No joke. I literally laughed out loud. Nearly snorted even.
"My name is still Cameron Awesome, and I still play defense, yo! (Though, admitedly, I really do need to learn how to fight.)"
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by Cheryl Bradley on Apr 4, 2011 3:11 PM MDT up reply actions
Really? Oh my, that person almost deserves a beer.
Winnik is a fucking #Winner. Le P'tit Français est un Des Boys. Can Johnson bring me loads of happiness? Bucket Loads. Ryan O`Byrne must have #TigerBlood
Because 30 is different than 20.
by Sandie Gauthier on Apr 4, 2011 3:12 PM MDT up reply actions
I posted this in the Cupcakes thread, but since no one here has mentioned it yet, I thought I’d be the one to break the news.
Hey Everyone! Guess what?!?!
Hot Pocket has a Concussion!!!!! Like a real one! No, I’m not joking! He won’t be with us for at least the road trip to St. Louis and Dallas. Isn’t that just great?!?!
(FML – Another one bites the dust. Seriously, what do we have to do to get a few healthy players around here? I’m down with sacrificing animals to the hockey gods at this point.)
Jumpin' on the Johnson bandwagon.
Good Goalie. THIS SUMMER. Make it Happen, Sherman!
This open thread sucks,
Everyone is talking about hockey.
When this year becomes last year, next year will be looking pretty good.
Dude, they never look like that, do they?
When this year becomes last year, next year will be looking pretty good.
They look more like what you would see if you were to chop burrito man’s thigh off. A man made of pure burrito.
by Pinchy The Lobster on Apr 4, 2011 5:34 PM MDT up reply actions
Now I’m sad that Jeph Jacques quit working on Indie Tits. That strip was absolutely brilliant.
Avs win. When?
awww.. man.. i was totally going to paste yelling bird.
by MalachiConstant on Apr 4, 2011 3:19 PM MDT up reply actions
Lemme just say what I said up there:
Dude, they never look like that, do they?
When this year becomes last year, next year will be looking pretty good.
I’m getting upset because I can’t find Nurse Jackie or United States of Tara for tonight. I thought it was on one channel at a certain time and it’s not showing up :(
Winnik is a fucking #Winner. Le P'tit Français est un Des Boys. Can Johnson bring me loads of happiness? Bucket Loads. Ryan O`Byrne must have #TigerBlood
Because 30 is different than 20.
by Sandie Gauthier on Apr 4, 2011 3:11 PM MDT up reply actions
I picked up Crysis 2 today. I won’t get a chance to play it until later tonight though
Patrit19: Languishing for Landeskog since 2011
My birthday is tomorrow, and that woman had damn well better have gotten me an Xbox.
Or not, of course. She’s totally awesome either way.
I don’t know if she reads this.
When this year becomes last year, next year will be looking pretty good.
Eh, the first one was a horrible let down for me. I’m also not big into first person shooters. The first was insanely good looking, but other than that it offered nothing for me. The games I’m really really wanting besides DNF are Diablo 3, Battlefield 3 (only shooter I really like is the BF series), Skyrim, The Witcher 2, and I’m contemplating Need For Speed: Shift 2 on PC as well.
Avs win. When?
Diablo 3 and Mass Effect 3 are center stage for me.
by MalachiConstant on Apr 4, 2011 3:33 PM MDT up reply actions
There’s nothing like finding some kick ass shit late at night deep down in the dungeons.
by Pinchy The Lobster on Apr 4, 2011 8:35 PM MDT up reply actions
I’m looking forward to LA Noire. Rockstar hasn’t dissapointed me
Patrit19: Languishing for Landeskog since 2011
Rockstar keeps spamming my e-mail with stuff about it. Haven’t looked into it, maybe I should?
Avs win. When?
I like that they’ve gone back to a city setting. RDR was great, but the map was a bit pointless in some spots
Patrit19: Languishing for Landeskog since 2011
there’s absolutely no way it can live up to expectations.
"I’m predicting 50pts in the NHL for Hensick next season. Anyone want to put $20 on it?" - DetAvs, Jun 18, 2010 3:45 AM EDT
It’s more doomed than “The Phantom Menace” (Not that George Lucas didn’t fuck that one up, but there was no way he could have made that movie and had people like it)
Avalanche Shutouts are a powerful Aphrodisiac
Jibblescribbits: C'mon over and waste some time
by Jibblescribbits on Apr 4, 2011 4:26 PM MDT up reply actions
Midichlorians
Really?
A few pointers just in case George ever wants to remake TPM:
1. No-one is interested in corporate disputes or politics
2. Do not start the only action in the movie in the last 15 minutes
3. Give the best SW villain in the franchise more than 4 lines and 6 mins of screentime
4. It is not a costume drama – Do not just talk for 1 hour and 45 minutes!!!!
5. Do not try and include everybody from the first trilogy – make up new characters and loosely tie them in. Jango Fett, C-3PO and R2-D2 – completely pointless
6. Put Natalie Portman in a Jabba Slave Girl outfit
Farewell Peter.
Who doesn’t have a giant green sperm swim toy?
We see a wonderful sun-soaked city nestled at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. Enos sees nickels and dimes.
by Bob in Boulder on Apr 4, 2011 4:37 PM MDT up reply actions
I’d be afraid if I were you. Considering you’re in the land of Godzilla and this is likely what some of his knuckle children would look like.
The truck have started to move.
by Dixomatic on Apr 4, 2011 4:39 PM MDT up reply actions 2 recs
So.... Anyone else watching some basketball tonight?
Duke is done (sadly), and I have fond feelings for both Butler and UConn. Anyone here have a favorite?
Jumpin' on the Johnson bandwagon.
Good Goalie. THIS SUMMER. Make it Happen, Sherman!
For those who care, the Kitchener Rangers just scored two third period goals to tie it up with Plymouth in Game 7. Landeskog scored the Rangers first goal. Also took a penalty after plowing into Plymouth’s goalie. Ryan Murphy is having an excellent period for the Rangers.
And this must’ve jinxed them because Plymouth just scored the weakest goal on Kitchener’s goalie (not Maxwell).
seals have been clubbed, and Landeskog has played (maybe) his last OHL game
Patrit19: Languishing for Landeskog since 2011
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