Post-Game Talk: Monsters @ Wild | 2/14/2013 | 6:00 MT |Stoppable Force vs Movable Object

[Taak19]

Good thing I will be taking my fiance to some cheesy valentines day movies instead of watching the game.

 

[Freudian]

Good thing I will be taking my fiance to some cheesy valentines day movies instead of watching the game.

You could watch the game together, but perhaps she's not into horror?

 

[Bubba Thudd]

ZING!

 

[Taak19]

Lirl.

 

[bohlmeister]

This is so unrealistic, Heard can't return from Plymouth and play for us.

I believe he can on an emergency call up.

 

[Taak19]

It would be best to keep all prospects away from this club for the time being.

 

[avalanchuck]

It would be best to keep all prospects away from this club for the time being.

So that leaves the Avs with having to sign those guys that come out and clean up the snow around the net and along the boards during the tv timeouts to fill the roster...

 

[Avs]

Good thing I will be taking my fiance to some cheesy valentines day movies instead of watching the game.

I thought the same thing at first, but then I realized that there might not be anything funnier to watch than this defense we will be icing tonight. If we lose by 8 or less, I will consider tonight a win.

 

[Taak19]

So that leaves the Avs with having to sign those guys that come out and clean up the snow around the net and along the boards during the tv timeouts to fill the roster...

I've never noticed for the Avs, but for the Flames they have ice girls. Avs should recruit them instead.

 

[AslanRH]

I've been trying to think back as far as I can, and I can honestly say that even with Duchene in the line up, this is the worst looking team on paper the Avs have ever thrown on the ice since the move from Quebec and probably the couple years before when I started to follow them.

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

It would make sense for Varly to get injured, that would effectively eliminate our entire starting lineup (at least one that we could've expected).

 

[EdAVSfan]

This thread is great.

But just imagine....seriously imagine....

How bad it would be for Minny fans if we actually beat the wild with this lineup.

 

[Bubba Thudd]

This thread is great.

But just imagine....seriously imagine....

How bad it would be for Minny fans if we actually beat the wild with this lineup.

when, not if

 

[Taak19]

This thread is great.

But just imagine....seriously imagine....

How bad it would be for Minny fans if we actually beat the wild with this lineup.

It's a surefire sign that the Avalanche are going to win tonight.

And since I threw 7k vCash at Dallas last night and lost it all, I am hoping for a big win from the Avs to put me back over 1k.

 

[WarriorOfGandhi]

I've been trying to think back as far as I can, and I can honestly say that even with Duchene in the line up, this is the worst looking team on paper the Avs have ever thrown on the ice since the move from Quebec and probably the couple years before when I started to follow them.

Smyth - Wolski - Hejduk
Stewart - Hensick - Svatos
McLeod - Arnason - Jones
Tucker - Dupuis - Willsie

Salei - Hannan
Liles - Clark
Tjarnqvist - Leopold

Raycroft
Budaj

 

[Lonewolfe2015]

Smyth - Wolski - Hejduk
Stewart - Hensick - Svatos
McLeod - Arnason - Jones
Tucker - Dupuis - Willsie

Salei - Hannan
Liles - Clark
Tjarnqvist - Leopold

Raycroft
Budaj

Keep going, that season we played Peltier and Macias at some point... lineup was atrocious.

 

[RockLobster]

Sgarbossa scratched tonight according to Chambers

http://blogs.denverpost.com/avs/2013/02/14/avalanche-at-wild-pregame-duchene-frustrated-by-nagging-injury/12577/

 

[AvsFanRCN]

so with EJ out can we just assume sacco is going to do something stupid like make hunwick and o'brien the top pairing?

 

[WarriorOfGandhi]

so with EJ out can we just assume sacco is going to do something stupid like make hunwick and o'brien the top pairing?

with EJ out does it matter who plays on the top pairing?

 

[Lonewolfe2015]

with EJ out does it matter who plays on the top pairing?

I'd put Sgarbossa on the top pairing before the guys we're using on defense...

 

[benzino]

Sgarbossa scratched tonight according to Chambers

http://blogs.denverpost.com/avs/2013/02/14/avalanche-at-wild-pregame-duchene-frustrated-by-nagging-injury/12577/

Yeah play Bordeleau over one of our most talented young players...

It's nice that Sacco gives Barrie a chance to shine though by playing him with Hunwick those 2 should clear the net easily ah well it's not like our other pairings clear the crease anyway.

 

[Bubba Thudd]

so with EJ out can we just assume sacco is going to do something stupid like make hunwick and o'brien the top pairing?

I'm ready for that. I've got my absinthe, and this:

 

[Ivan13]

Sgarbossa scratched tonight according to Chambers

http://blogs.denverpost.com/avs/2013/02/14/avalanche-at-wild-pregame-duchene-frustrated-by-nagging-injury/12577/

 

[Bubba Thudd]

Yeah play Bordeleau over one of our most talented young players...

It's nice that Sacco gives Barrie a chance to shine though by playing him with Hunwick those 2 should clear the net easily ah well it's not like our other pairings clear the crease anyway.

Sacco expects it to get ugly. On the scoreboard, and likely on the ice, too.

 

[RockLobster]

Yeah play Bordeleau over one of our most talented young players...

It's nice that Sacco gives Barrie a chance to shine though by playing him with Hunwick those 2 should clear the net easily ah well it's not like our other pairings clear the crease anyway.

I don't have a problem playing Bordeleau, he's been a nice, pleasant surprise on the
4th line this year. But, no offense to someone like Kobasew, is there a reason why 'Bossa has to sit for him? So far this year ANY offensive chance that he's had he has not even come close to converting them.

I like him, he plays hard, but if we're struggling to score goals I would think that he'd sit for someone who's a bit more creative with the puck...then again I thought for sure that Sgarbossa would get a shot at playing on a line w/ Stastny, but that hasn't happened yet.