Avs loss? What Avs loss? We’re talking minor league hockey. Some short notes: The new rage right now is changing your website design before the season starts. While NHL.com did it, so did the AHL. Check out the new look of www.theahl.com The AHL is cutting players and sending them down to the lower minors.…

Well, I am not going to be doing a bunch of game recaps, but it was a good night of hockey, so here is some of the fun: Great first period for the Avs, and a good night for the kid line. First period shots on goal: 22 Avs to 7 Stars. Stars can’t stay…

Zan at Waiting For Stanley put up his Western Conference predictions, and told me that if I didn’t do the same, he would invade Colorado (the state, not the city), and take away my Avalanche toque. Well, I can’t part with that, so here we go, out together with haste and little fore thought: 1)…

Here are some quick Avs notes before the opening night tilt: Brad May and Pierre Turgeon are both on the IR. How this is a bad thing is beyond me. Keep an eye on the Kid line, of Svatos, Wolski, and Stastny. Speed and skill will be good. But if they get rushed hard, or…

I have to get this down now, before it changes. In the Denver Post, by Terry Frei: The Tampa Bay Lightning, the reigning Stanley Cup champion, will be watched closely because it decided to concentrate so much of its cap space on three forwards – Vinny Lecavalier, Martin St. Louis, and Brad Richards. Reigning champs?…