Adam Foote

[The Kingslayer]

Do they? That was an awesome moment and the perfect way for Foote to end his career. I'm glad the referees understood what was happening and let Foote just do his thing.

Yah, they pretty much complain about everything.

 

[Pokecheque]

Honestly I thought he was overrated when the Avs first came to town. Played a very physical, mean game that took a huge toll on his body. After double shoulder surgery IIRC he changed his approach, became much smarter and more balanced. Very underrated offensive side to his game. He could skate it out of the zone if need be, just didn't have the fancy hands or booming slapshot to put up big numbers. But pretty much a textbook premier stay-at-home defenseman.

 

[captaincheese]

He is in my top 5 all-time Avs, so I would say he was pretty significant.
He wouldn't have been able to survive in the new nhl though. He was a clutch and grab master, like Scott Hannan, and Brad Stuart were/are.

 

[henchman21]

Foote was a much, much better skater than either of those players. That is the part of his game that people really forget about. Foote was a great skater for his size and had some great edge work. A prime Foote would fit right in today's NHL.

If Tanev was a mean SOB... that would be Foote in today's NHL.

 

[Gigantor The Goalie]

He is in my top 5 all-time Avs, so I would say he was pretty significant.
He wouldn't have been able to survive in the new nhl though. He was a clutch and grab master, like Scott Hannan, and Brad Stuart were/are.

Foote wasn't a clutch and grab player. He could skate better then Hannan or Stuart.

 

[Ivan13]

Calling Foote a clutch and grab player is an insult to sanity.

 

[The Kingslayer]

Foote was a much, much better skater than either of those players. That is the part of his game that people really forget about. Foote was a great skater for his size and had some great edge work. A prime Foote would fit right in today's NHL.

If Tanev was a mean SOB... that would be Foote in today's NHL.

Thats a good comparison.

 

[Pokecheque]

He wasn't dependent on clutch and grab, but yes, he did it because he could. We can all remember him riding Tkachuk piggyback in front of Roy during the Western Conference Final. By that rationale you could dismiss all kinds of defensive players in the Dead Puck Era, like Rob Blake, Robyn Regehr, and so on.

I think a better example of a guy who seemingly thrived in the clutch-and-grab era who would struggle mightily now is Pavel Kubina. Had great physical tools and skills, but bad fundamentals. Foote was nothing if not good fundamentally.

 

[agentblack]

Looking back at his entire career he almost seems made up. lol. like if you could build a perfect phys. def. dman, it would be him. Cool name and all. Can hit, fight, defend, skate. He was a bad@$$

 

[CobraAcesS]

He wasn't dependent on clutch and grab, but yes, he did it because he could. We can all remember him riding Tkachuk piggyback in front of Roy during the Western Conference Final. By that rationale you could dismiss all kinds of defensive players in the Dead Puck Era, like Rob Blake, Robyn Regehr, and so on.

I think a better example of a guy who seemingly thrived in the clutch-and-grab era who would struggle mightily now is Pavel Kubina. Had great physical tools and skills, but bad fundamentals. Foote was nothing if not good fundamentally.

Derian Hatcher, no way in hell that guy survives these days.

 

[ABasin]

Foote wasn't a clutch and grab player. He could skate better then Hannan or Stuart.

Foote was a much, much better skater than either of those players.

Absolute nonsense.

Brad Stuart was an awesome skater earlier in his career. Far better than Foote ever was.

In his prime, Foote was definitely better than last year's skeleton that posed as Brad Stuart for Colorado. But calling Foote in his prime a "far, far" better skater than Stuart in his prime, is ridiculous revisionist history homer posting.

Come on, guys. Foote was a defensive stud who skated reasonably well. No need to exaggerate it.

 

[NOTENOUGHJTCGOALS]

Absolute nonsense.

Brad Stuart was an awesome skater earlier in his career. Far better than Foote ever was.

In his prime, Foote was definitely better than last year's skeleton that posed as Brad Stuart for Colorado. But calling Foote in his prime a "far, far" better skater than Stuart in his prime, is ridiculous revisionist history homer posting.

Come on, guys. Foote was a defensive stud who skated reasonably well. No need to exaggerate it.

Footer played for team Canada in a number of best on best tournaments on international sized ice. He did well. He wasn't a great skater but he could hold his own.

 

[ThunderBird]

I know that Foote was big enough to handle the big forwards like the Tkachuks, and Shanahans but he could skate well enough to stick with the small, quick guys. Foote was mean and dirty always playing on that edge. Foote was an all out warrior. I always felt Foote could have done more in the offensive zone if he wanted to but he like the role of stay at home physical defenseman.

 

[henchman21]

Absolute nonsense.

Brad Stuart was an awesome skater earlier in his career. Far better than Foote ever was.

In his prime, Foote was definitely better than last year's skeleton that posed as Brad Stuart for Colorado. But calling Foote in his prime a "far, far" better skater than Stuart in his prime, is ridiculous revisionist history homer posting.

Come on, guys. Foote was a defensive stud who skated reasonably well. No need to exaggerate it.

This is just totally wrong. Stuart was a good skater in his prime, but he wasn't better than (or even approaching) Foote. Foote's edge work and balance were really, really good.

 

[ABasin]

This is just totally wrong. Stuart was a good skater in his prime, but he wasn't better than (or even approaching) Foote. Foote's edge work and balance were really, really good.

No it's not.

Foote was a quality skater in his prime. Stuart was a damn good skater in his prime also. No way on earth is/was Foote "far, far" better. If we compare both of them in their primes, Stuart's was better without question. Both were quality skaters though.

The only comparison in which one could reasonably call Foote a "far" better skater than Stuart, is one in which Foote's skating is circa 1992, and Stuart's is circa 2015.

 

[Pokecheque]

Derian Hatcher, no way in hell that guy survives these days.

Yeah, you're probably right. He tumbled pretty fast post-lockout.

Not sure if Rathje also had a hard time adjusting or his body just fell apart but he too kinda sputtered out in Philly and disappeared.

 

[Bonzai12]

I remember Adam Foote more for his fists than his feet.

 

[Mighty Makar]

I remember the summer when Foote signed with the Blue Jackets and Forsberg signed with the Flyers. We replaced them with Brisebois and Turgeon.

 

[Pokecheque]

I remember the summer when Foote signed with the Blue Jackets and Forsberg signed with the Flyers. We replaced them with Brisebois and Turgeon.

Those were actually pretty savvy moves by Lacroix. Brisebois was an ace puckmover and good supplement to a still-developing John-Michael Liles. Turgeon was actually quite productive and had immediate chemistry with Marek Svatos. I believe the Avs had one of their best offensive seasons that year.

I'm not saying those two guys were upgrades on Foote and Forsberg, of course they weren't, but I was pleasantly surprised at how well those two worked out. Too bad it was only for one season before both suffered what ended up being career-ending injuries.

People just look at that horrid giveaway in the postseason when Breezy coughed it up to Joffrey Lupul (and to be fair, it was indeed inexplicably bad) and ignore everything else he did in the short time he was in Colorado. Brisebois was never the star Montreal hoped he'd be, but he also wasn't the goat Montreal fans made him out to be either.

Speaking of Foote in Columbus, he's still pretty reviled there given how he essentially forced them to trade him back to Colorado. I'm told the Avalanche, as part of that deal, very nearly handed over Matt Duchene, but narrowly dodged that bullet. One of many reasons Francois Giguere hasn't had a sniff at an NHL GM job since.

 

[agentblack]

Those were actually pretty savvy moves by Lacroix. Brisebois was an ace puckmover and good supplement to a still-developing John-Michael Liles. Turgeon was actually quite productive and had immediate chemistry with Marek Svatos. I believe the Avs had one of their best offensive seasons that year.

I'm not saying those two guys were upgrades on Foote and Forsberg, of course they weren't, but I was pleasantly surprised at how well those two worked out. Too bad it was only for one season before both suffered what ended up being career-ending injuries.

People just look at that horrid giveaway in the postseason when Breezy coughed it up to Joffrey Lupul (and to be fair, it was indeed inexplicably bad) and ignore everything else he did in the short time he was in Colorado. Brisebois was never the star Montreal hoped he'd be, but he also wasn't the goat Montreal fans made him out to be either.

Speaking of Foote in Columbus, he's still pretty reviled there given how he essentially forced them to trade him back to Colorado. I'm told the Avalanche, as part of that deal, very nearly handed over Matt Duchene, but narrowly dodged that bullet. One of many reasons Francois Giguere hasn't had a sniff at an NHL GM job since.

Damn that series suuucccked

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

was alright for a short period of time but his age quickly caught up with him.

Breezby was always bad. Those times are probably the darkest times in avs history. I'll never forget reading the ticker on the score, that both left.

 

[Bone Breaker]

Foote was good, but he was no Kasparaitis.




now, I can be the only one here, but I liked Blake more than Foote. specially since Blake produced more big hits than Foote, despite the later being known as a tough guy. I comprehend though that some pick him over Blake because of his way longer spell in the club.

 

[The Kingslayer]

I remember the summer when Foote signed with the Blue Jackets and Forsberg signed with the Flyers. We replaced them with Brisebois and Turgeon.

Didnt we also get Andrew Brunette and the great Brett Maclean

 

[Bonzai12]

People just look at that horrid giveaway in the postseason when Breezy coughed it up to Joffrey Lupul (and to be fair, it was indeed inexplicably bad) and ignore everything else he did in the short time he was in Colorado.

I couldn't ignore the other 1,000 times he coughed up the puck in his own zone or the neutral zone. The Lupul incident was intensified because of the playoff atmosphere, but he pretty much coughed up the puck every night.

 

[Sea Eagles]

I remember an interview with Footer regarding his positivity around signing with the Blue Jackets. The premise of that interview was how he was excited because top to bottom at the time, he said there was accountability through the organization.

That's what a competitor he was.

Will go down in my books, along with Chara, Lidstrom & others the best defensemen ever to have given me the privilege of being a supporter of (and I only support Avs players btw - current and past - doesn't matter to me).