All Entries Tagged With: "Matt Duchene"
Predators Lock Up 4th Seed, Bury the Avalanche 6-1
The Nashville Predators traveled to the Pepsi Center to take on the Colorado Avalanche in the last- and thankfully- anticlimactic- game of the regular season. Thanks to Detroit’s shootout loss earlier in the day, the Predators entered the game knowing they had locked up the 4th seed in the Western Conference and home ice for [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review
The Tampa Bay Lightning are 14-17-3 with 31 points through 34 games. After 34 games last season, the Bolts were 19-10-5 with 43 points. The Bolts are in fourth place in the Southeast Division and trail the division leading Florida Panthers by twelve points. Tampa Bay has fallen to 13th place in the 15 team Eastern Conference. After 34 [...]
Avs End Red Wings’ Winning Streak with 4-2 Win
Add up a starting goaltender with the night off, one of your top scorers leaving the game with an injury, and some miscues and miscommunications between linemates, and it equals an end to a seven-game winning streak as the Detroit Red Wings lose to the Colorado Avalanche 4-2 at the Pepsi Center. Ryan O’Reilly scored [...]
Rask’s 35 Saves Not Enough, As B’s Fall 1-0 To Avs
On Monday afternoon, the Boston Bruins (1-1-0) played host to the visiting Colorado Avalanche (0-1-0) , for a Columbus Day Matinee contest at the TD Garden. Boston’s 24-year-old Finnish net-minder Tuukka Rask got the start for the B’s, his first of the 2011-12 campaign. In net for the Avs was young Russian goaltender Semyon [...]
Red Wings Spoil Avs’ Party In 3-0 Win
It would only be ironic that on Peter Forsberg night, the Detroit Red Wings would come to Denver and successfully crash the party in a 3-0 win over the Colorado Avalanche. It was the Red Wings second win in consecutive nights. Ty Conklin’s second stint with the team began on a high note as he [...]
Peverley’s Pair Leads B’s Past Bolts At TD Garden
On Saturday evening, the Bruins played host to the visiting Tampa Bay Lightning in the first of 4 meetings this season, between the two squads. Despite the pre-game expectations of Tuukka Rask to get the start, it was veteran netminder Tim Thomas who got the start for the B’s, against Tampa’s Mathieu Garon. The [...]
Top-20 best bang-for-the-buck NHL forwards in 2010-11
Yesterday I had a look at the worst goal scorers in the NHL compared to their 2010-11 actual salary, and without any surprise Scott Gomez was ranked number one at $1,142,857 per goal (7 goals for $8,000,000) more than $400,000 per goal than Matt Stajan who was ranked second. The list was not unanimous, as [...]
Clearing the Way for Captain Matt Duchene
Shortly after the Avs made the Chris Stewart for Erik Johnson trade, Avs GM Greg Sherman was on NHL radio to talk about it. One of the things he said that stood out the most to Avs fans was that the Avs were on track with the plan. Plan? Plan to lose as many games [...]
Predators Win Ugly, Defeat the Avalanche 5-3
Sometimes when a team notches a win, it is a thing of beauty; sometimes it is ugly. Tonight, the Nashville Predators won ugly over the Colorado Avalanche by a 5-3 margin. Fortunately, they don’t give style points for a victory as this was not the prettiest win for the Predators. The Predators came out flying [...]
2011 NHL All-Star Game Mock Draft
One day before the 2011 All-Star break celebrations, I participated in a NHL All-Star mock draft with a fellow Montreal Canadiens Blogger, James Usypchuk, from The Power Play. You can click here: 2011 NHL All-Star rosters to see the players that will participate in this year’s All-Star game in Raleigh, NC. James had the first [...]
Predators Bury the Avalanche 5-1
The Nashville Predators continued their six game road trip with a contest against the Colorado Avalanche, a team that plays wide open and with speed. The Avs are chasing the Predators in the standings by two points, and this contest shaped up on paper to be a significant test for the visitors. On paper. The [...]
Avalanche Wildly Inconsistent
The Colorado Avalanche are starting to get healthy again. Perhaps a few players recently back from injuries are a bit rusty still. That might explain the inconsistency of play as of late. But in truth, this team has displayed this tendency going back to last season. It’s still presumable that it is a product of [...]
Avalanche No. 9: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Opening night is fast approaching for the Colorado Avalanche and the organization is hosting a reunion for the 1995-’96 Stanley Cup winning Avalanche team members. One of my favorite players in those early years wore number nine. The Avs future looks bright with a certain sophomore that now wears the number nine. But there’s one [...]
Matt Duchene – Tough Guy
In an interview at this morning’s skate, Colorado Avalanche center, Matt Duchene responded to the question of his recent feistiness in training camp. Duchene admits that he is acting a little tougher out there on the ice. And a lot of the fans in attendance at the Avalanche Burgundy and White charity game got an [...]
Thank My Lucky Socks
On July 1st I prepared for the big day by putting on my lucky Colorado Avalanche socks. As the day progressed and the Avalanche made nary a ripple in the free agent pool, I reminded myself that this was a pretty good team last year. And the deafening quiet from the Avalanche front office is legendary…in [...]
Sabres Shine At NHL Awards
Buffalo Sabres goaltender Ryan Miller and rookie D-man Tyler Myers had an opportunity to bring home some hardware from Las Vegas at the NHL Awards ceremony. The night could not have gone any better for those two men and Sabres nation. In 2008, Tyler Myers was the 12th overall pick in the NHL draft for [...]
Avs as Ugly as a Great White
That was about the ugliest game I’ve seen this team play. As an Avs fan I’m tempted to think that the Avs made the Sharks look good. If I’m a Sharks fan I’ve got to be thinking, “Finally, a dominating performance!” Realistically it’s in between. The Avs really let the Sharks take it to them [...]
Trophy Talk: My vote for the Calder
Dieter Kurtenbach doesn’t have a vote for the Calder Trophy, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have an opinion.
Calder Finalists Revealed
The NHL has announced the three finalists for the Calder trophy, handed out yearly to the league’s best rookie. There were seemingly no surprises in this year’s nominees. Matt Duchene of the Colorado Avalanche, Tyler Myers of the Buffalo Sabres and Jimmy Howard of the Detroit Red Wings will go head to on June 23rd [...]
Sharks “Feel Good” About Themselves
Fans of the Colorado Avalanche can feel good about how this team is performing so far in the playoffs. The players obviously feel pretty good about how they have played so far. Despite the game two OT loss, there was little talk of one that got away, blah-blah-blah. They know the deal; they weren’t even [...]
