Jordan Leopold is starting the season off in classic fashion, if by classic, you mean like last season. From the Rocky Mountain News:
Avalanche defenseman Jordan Leopold was expected to miss tonight’s game against the St. Louis Blues because of what the team said was a hip injury. He is questionable for Saturday’s home game against the Columbus Blue Jackets, but the injury is not considered serious.
“It’s just a bump in the road,” Leopold said. “Just a hiccup. I’m fine.”
Ummm….. I think I speak for all of Avs Nation when I say, “You freaking better be.”
Do I need to remind everyone about last season? No, I can let the RMN do it:
Leopold, averaging almost 20 minutes of ice time in three games this season, has been unable to stay in the lineup since being acquired by the Avalanche in a trade with Calgary on June 24, 2006. He missed the first 25 games of last season while recovering from hernia surgery, and he missed another 42 games with groin and wrist injuries.
By the way, from that same page, this has to be a freaking joke:
That’s a joke, right? I am not even going to click on that. I hate playing that whole fans-in-a-city-don’t-know-crap thing, but this sucks. There has to be a large contingent of Coyotes fans doing this for a lark. Or, they mean one of the Coyotes teams from when that was their logo. Been a few years, there, someone update the RMN hockey database.