All Entries Tagged With: "Milan Hejduk"
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 [...]
Franzen Nets Hat Trick as Red Wings High Five Avalanche
The ‘Mule’ gave the Red Wings’ offense a kick as Johan Franzen scored a hat trick as the home team beat the visiting Colorado Avalanche 5-2 at the Joe Louis Arena. Nicklas Lidstrom and Danny Cleary also scored for the Red Wings and Jimmy Howard recorded 24 saves for his sixth win of the season. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Canadiens set to face former teammate Ryan O’Byrne
After losing 5-3 to the Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday and winning 4-3 against the Boston Bruins on Thursday, the Canadiens chartered a plane to Colorado yesterday, where they will visit the Avalanche and former teammate Ryan O’Byrne tonight at 8 PM Eastern time. O’Byrne, who was traded for forward Michael Bournival in early November, has [...]
An Avalanche of Questions
With the 2010-11 NHL season fast approaching I thought I would take a brief look at the Colorado Avalanche and ask a few questions. These are the things that I think will make a difference in the success and failure of the team as the season progresses. There were a lot of stellar performances on [...]
DAILY RUMORS: Peter Mueller Being Traded? Not Likely
We at HockeyIndependent.com want to be your resource and filter for what is going on in the NHL. We try to disseminate the noise in the blogosphere. We don’t look to to attack those sources, but to question the veracity of the rumor with cold logic, hockey smarts and knowledge. To do that… we have [...]
Boyle wins it in OT… for wrong team.
Good teams find a way to win. The San Jose Sharks find ways to lose. They dominated most of game 3 against the Colorado Avalanche, but thanks to Craig Anderson and Dan Boyle they came out down 2-1 in the series. The winning goal in game 1 went off of Rob Blake’s skate with less [...]
Predators @ Avalanche
As the Avs head into this game, the thing they need to concentrate on is momentum. They’ve won seven of their last ten. This team has thrived lately on wins, their own as well as that of the Predators. The Preds have won six of their last ten. They’ve recently been on a mini-tour of [...]
Avs Hammer the Oil
After a great performance on Saturday against the New Jersey Devils, Avs fans were wondering if this team would keep their foot on the pedal against the Oil or play down to the competition. Going into tonight’s game against the Oil I couldn’t help but be a bit surprised by this quote by Ethan Moreau, [...]
Tuesday Top Ten: Biggest Winter Olympic Snubs Of 2010
Welcome to the pilot installment of the “Tuesday Top Ten”, where every Tuesday presents us with a look at the ten biggest (insert topic)’s of the week. As expected, the countdown will be of relevance to current stories and headlines in the World of Hockey. Olympic hockey, the crown jewel of the international hockey scene. [...]
Colorado Avalanche’s Matt Duchene is December’s Rookie of the Month
Matt Duchene led all rookie scoring in December with 13 points, five goals and eight assists. While Duchene started off the season at a rather pedestrian pace he has picked it up as his comfort level in the league has increased. The fact that he is playing with better line mates doesn’t hurt either, swapping Marek Svatos [...]
Avs Eastern Conference Road Trip
The Colorado Avalanche took a three game run through the Eastern conference picking up three points out of a possible six. Not bad, not great. The Avs took it to the Lightning in the first game and Matt Duchene caught fire, seemingly appearing out of nowhere with 7 points in the last 5 games. Chris [...]
Colorado Avalanche at the halfway mark in division
The Colorado Avalanche wrapped up the back-to-back against the Minnesota Wild this weekend in poor fashion. Limping away with a mere one point, the Avs aren’t the only ones limping. David Jones, second on the team in goals is effectively done for the season with a torn ACL. The winger has been struggling with injuries [...]
Avalanche Have Great 2nd Period Against Nashville
The Colorado Avalanche got a point tonight in another up & down game. With the Nashville Predators in town for a pre-Thanksgiving game, the Avs decided to take the first period to work on tomorrow’s menu. Just 3 minutes into the period the Preds were on the power play and made good on it for [...]
Dual-Personality Avalanche
The Colorado Avalanche are officially nuts. They have two personalities. Last Saturday the Avs played the first of four-straight divisional games. Coach Joe Sacco called the game a “must-win”. The Avs failed to even show up for the game, leaving the head coach looking like a big dummy. The Avs went through both goalies and [...]