May 31st, 2008

Pens Crap the Bed: SCF Game 4

Man, what a crap ass game of hockey, FOR THE PENGUINS!!!!

I’m mired in the postgame coverage on ESPNews (seriously, they have hockey coverage, must mean there’s no NBA tonight), and these coach interviews remind me of why I don’t want to be a “professional” sportswriter. Actually, listening to the post game interviews by Crosby [...]

May 30th, 2008

Pistons Are Done, SCF Ratings to get Bigger

Detroit sports fans have no excuse not to watch the Stanley Cup Finals, now that the Detroit Pistons have fallen to the Boston Celtics.

There were two interviews right after the game, one the stereotypical player interview (Kevin Garnett), tempered and useless, the other (Paul Pierce) full of raw emotion that an interviewer isn’t ready for, [...]

May 30th, 2008

ESPN Reports on Self, Melrose

ESPN just loves to talk about itself. If the worldwide leader isn’t doing it, it isn’t news. What could possibly be more entertaining than one of it’s own analysts in the news, this time in a positive way:

Former Los Angeles Kings coach Barry Melrose brushed aside a rumor he is in line to [...]

May 29th, 2008

Luc Bourdon, Canucks Defenseman, Dies at Age 21

CTv.ca tells the sad story:

Luc Bourdon, a promising young defenceman in the Vancouver Canucks organization, was killed Thursday afternoon when his motorcycle collided with a tractor-trailer near his hometown in northern New Brunswick.

More details from The Province:

Bourdon died instantly at around 12:30 p.m. New Brunswick time when the motorcycle he was driving hit a tractor-trailer [...]

May 29th, 2008

Theo Wants to Return

With the Stanley Cup Finals going on, it’s a slow news month for the Avs right now. Other than the signing of Tony Granato, everything else is speculation and “want to” right now.

In the want to category, Theodore wants to come back to the Avalanche. From the Rocky Mountain News:

Jose Theodore wants to [...]

May 27th, 2008

Wake Up, Fleury

I took some crap for posting this before, but I think it holds true more than a year later.

The only thing  Fleury diesn’t have to answer for is scoring goals.  I think his worst moment was when he gave hockey fans a reminder as to why a goalie doesn’t usually clear the puck, and certainly [...]

May 22nd, 2008

Coach Granato: The Other View

It was announced today that Tony Granato, brother to women’s hockey star Cammi Granato, and former head coach of the Avalanche, is getting another shot as the head cheese.

And I think that’s fine.

I would imagine that some of the other Avs bloggers are thinking I should have my head examined for that statement, [...]

May 9th, 2008

Nah-Nah-Nah, Hey-Hey-Hey, Goodbye

And as they said in forth grade, don’t let the door hit you.

Coach Q got the axe listened to the fans grew a brain and the Avalanche mutually agreed that it was freaking obvious was past time to be losing wasn’t a damn stand up comedy special was just best if we all moved on [...]

May 3rd, 2008

What’s This Then? With Updates!

Hey, how about this:

“This team that everyone said wouldn’t go anywhere made it to the second round of the playoffs and I think we should be really proud of them,” said one woman.

“I’m feeling pretty bad, pretty disappointed. But next year … we’re gonna get our cup!” said another fan.

No, that isn’t about the Avalanche, [...]

May 2nd, 2008

Avs Done: What Now?

Now that the Avalanche have ended their season so unceremoniously, what now?

Let’s Go, Mammoth:

The Colorado Mammoth of the NLL (National Lacrosse League) start the playoffs Saturday against the Calgary Roughnecks. It’s not hockey, but I like it.

Let’s Go, Eagles:

The Colorado Eagles are already in their playoff series, against the Arizona Sundogs in the [...]