Hope you all had an absolutely maahvelous! turkey day. I probably don’t say this often enough but thank you to all who drop by and visit and much love to those of you who leave your comments or drop emails. You are much appreciated.
OUCH! Joker will be out for 2 weeks. (we’ll be taking on COL,SJS, LAK and TOR in that time frame) but the Yotes have no plans to bring anyone up from SA. Considering how poorly the Rampage are doin right now, I can’t say as I blame them. Plus we get the Beast back today!
So We get to see the AVs for the first time this season. I don’t want to be the meanie but they aren’t doin so hot right now. 2 for 5 in their last games and those 2 wins were the Kings and Blues…barely. Looks like both teams have been struggling nearly equally. Both 4th in our division, we’re 5-3-1 at home, they’re 5-6-0 away. Last 10 games played we’re 4-4-2 and they’re 5-5-0 and we’re both hangin onto 20 points (thanx to our recent grabbing of 2 loser points).
Looks like the Swedish Wolf has earned himself another start (what an understatement!). Along with Telly in the net out lines look like this:
Daniel Carcillo-Kevin Porter-Enver Lisin
Shane Doan-Steven Reinprecht-Peter Mueller
Daniel Winnik-Martin Hanzal-Mikkel Boedker
Todd Fedoruk-Kyle Turris-Viktor Tikhonov
We’re still showin DMo as DTD and only Olli is IR for us thank goodness.
The Avs have an injury list from hell again (these boys were not healthy last year either but still managed to scrap hard). Foote/Liles/Guite and Tucker are all on the medic minder right now. We’ll have to watch out for the other TQ (Daniel Tjarnqvist)who had the topper in the last game and with the suddenly, pretty solid Badaj in net, this is not going to be pretty. hey’ll have to watch out for their former compatriots Sauer/Klee and Rhino (who usually has a big game against these guys) *Dmo is also a former AV but is still out DTD* We’re sittin on a win brought to us by unlikely suspects so don’t scoff at the notion that Sauer or Klee could be offensive threats to the AVs. No word on what lines the Lanche will be rollin but count on the wicked Stasny and Sakic to play major roles.
http://www.nhl.com/ice/preview.htm?id=2008020326
This may very well come down to a goalie battle. Budaj is 6-1-3 with a 2.76 GAA in 10 career games versus the Coyotes, but has lost his last three outings and Telly is 1.97 GAA and a .928 save percentage in splitting two career starts against the Avalanche. Hopefully Gretz and co. will continue to monitor Jovo and if this game comes down to the shorties with a lead, we won’t have to worry about the last few minutes with JV on the ice. Lets all hope that the 1st line PP continues to hold some surprise performers (then maybe we’ll stop being on the bottom of the list for PP%s).
So come on out and join us for a great matinee, puck drops at 2PM. And if you can come out *from 11 - 1* and join us in Lot J for the tailgate and welcome home party for our very own military fan Sgt.V, who returns from the sandbox just in time for the debut of the new black jerseys. Sgt. V has been keepin up with the dawgs thru sporadic visits to the forum when he can and of course the reports from his awesome wife. Come by and say hi and talk hockey with one of our favorite vets.
