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Mile High Hockey (Sandie Gauthier) —
Dan Winnik #34 / Winger / San Jose Height: 6-2 Weight: 210 Born: Mar 06, 1985 2012 Cap Hit: $950,000 2012 Status: UFA Daniel Winnik made a big splash as soon as he joined the Avalanche, getting in a tussle with Kyle Quincey within days of joining the team on the ice for the first time. Surprisingly the biggest knock against the 6'2, 210 pound forward is...
Mile High Hockey (David Driscoll-Carignan) —
Adrian Dater believes that both Adam Deadmarsh and Sylvain Lefebvre will be back behind the bench next year . Of course, we're talking about the PR inept Avalanche here, so this information had to be obtained by extrapolation from non-comments. Fucking ridiculous. There were rumors that Lefebvre might leave to coach the new Sherbrooke team in the QMJHL this coming season, but when I...
Mile High Hockey (SteveHouse) —
#1 New York Rangers at #6 New Jersey Devils , Game 4, 8:00 Eastern, NBC Sports and CBC. Rangers lead series 2-1 If you watched Game 1 of this series you watched Game 3, down to the goal scorers (empty net not included). New York played a very Coyotean, you can have all the shot attempts you want but our goalie will make save after save, counterpunch when you finally make a mistake, game....
Mile High Hockey (Cole D Hamilton) —
Joakim Lindstrom #28 / Center / Colorado Avalanche Height: 6-0 Weight: 187 Born: Dec 05, 1983 2011 Cap Hit: $600,000 2012 Outlook: Lindstr ö m has already shipped back to Skellefteå AIK and its doubtful he will play in the NHL again next year. Once again the Avs tried to fill a gap in their top six talent with a top...
Mile High Hockey (David Driscoll-Carignan) —
Sandie is playing hooky from hockey today and tomorrow, so you're stuck with me. Sorry. The season is finally over for the Semyon Varlamov , who backstopped team Russia in the IHF World Championships to a gold medal victory with a 6-2 win over Slovakia. I'm too lazy to look for stats, but Varly had a 1.74 GAA and .940 save percentage going into the game . Fellow Avs Paul Stastny (USA),...
Denver Post: All Things Avs (Adrian Dater) —
Believe it or not, the Avalanche has a team policy about assistant coaches: they can’t talk to the media about ongoing, current team concerns. And the team will not announce anything about them, transaction-wise. For instance, if an assistant coach isn’t coming back, they will not release that information publicly. It’s one of their quirkier [...]
Mile High Hockey (Cheryl Bradley) —
Ryan O'Reilly joins Twitter Yes, it's really his account. He updated via Facebook about it.
Mile High Hockey (Cheryl Bradley) —
#3 Phoenix Coyotes at #8 Los Angeles Kings , Game 4, 3:00 ET, NBC and CBC. Kings lead series 3-0. The Kings have lost one game so far in the playoffs. One. That one game came in the first round; it was game 4 and LA had the opportunity to sweep the Canucks on home ice. It didn't happen. Fast forward to round two and we had the same situation. LA had the opportunity to sweep the Blues ...
Mile High Hockey (ProfessorOak) —
So this is really more out of curiosity than anything else and since there isn't too much going on in the Avalanche world, I figured why not have a thread about this? Most if not all people here are Avalanche fans, or fans of the franchise, and odds are, many of our favorite players are from there. I'm curious as to who your favorite players are outside of this franchise. For forward I'd...
Mile High Hockey (SteveHouse) —
#1 New York Rangers at #6 New Jersey Devils , Game 3, Right Now, NBC and CBC. Series tied 1-1 Sorry. Thought this was the one that started at 3, but apparently that's tomorrow's game. You can watch the game legally here or on your TVs. Side storylines I can think of before the puck drops: Marian Gaborik barely got any ice time late in Game 2. When asked about it he said we'd have to...
Mile High Hockey (Cheryl Bradley) —
We all know that the Avalanche have a ton of guys to sign this off season. What hasn't been discussed in as much detail is that the huge free agent market extends to the Lake Erie Monsters as well. Currently, about half of Colorado's non-roster players are either in RFA or UFA status, and all but one are on two-way contracts, meaning they could be called up at any time. Goalies ...
Mile High Hockey (Cheryl Bradley) —
The Avalanche have announced that Milan Hejduk has been signed to a one-year contract worth $2 million. Hejduk has spent all of his 13 years in the NHL with the Avs, and will hit the 1,000 game mark 9 games into the 2012-2013 season. If he does, he will be the first player in Avalanche history to do so. Hejduk had a rough season in 2011-2012, so it will be interesting to see if it was a...
Denver Post: All Things Avs (Adrian Dater) —
Milan Hejduk is coming back. The Avs captain has agreed to a One-year, $2 million contract. More later
Mile High Hockey (Cheryl Bradley) —
Kyle Quincey #27 / Defenseman / Detroit Red Wings Height: 6-2 Weight: 207 Born: Aug 12, 1985 2011 Cap Hit: $3,125,000 2012 Status: RFA Prior to being traded to the Detroit Red Wings via the Tampa Bay Lightning , Kyle Quincey was a staple on the Avalanche blue line. Despite a tendency to take inopportune penalties and disappear at times during games, he kept the...
Mile High Hockey (Sandie Gauthier) —
NHL suspensions based on injuries and not the act ? Most everyone looks at a dangerous hit from behind, sees it over and over again on the highlight shows, registers mild disappointment at the practically meaningless one-game suspension, and can’t even summon the strength any more to complain. Maybe that’s the idea. That we’ll all shut up eventually, and let the boys...