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Avs vs Thrasher: huh…
I was considering plunking down the hard earned dollars to go to the game tonight at The Can, but decided against it. Instead, I spent the pregame surrounded by Avs fans at the downtown Old Chicago (the one with a non-descript Avs player painted on the side of the building), and the rest of the…
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The Avs Right Now
I haven’t talked about the Avalanche for a while, as I’ve been trying to not be just an Avalanche blog. Also, they have been so up and down lately, it’s been hard to say much. But here are some of the things, just quick little hits, I’ve seen, thought, heard, observed, and obsessed over lately.…
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Hockey Day Works Out
Hockey Day in Colorado went pretty well, overall. Even though the Ducks haven’t figured out that you can zoom in on a game once in a while, they sure put up a hell of a fight. But the Avs pulled it out in a shootout, and Peter Budaj is making out goaltender questions less worrisome,…
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Hockey Day in Colorado
If you haven’t been bludgeoned to death with it so far, today is Hockey Day in Canada, another day for Canada to sell itself more hockey. I don’t have the Center Ice package (sorry, but I have my reasons), so I can’t join all of the northern fans (that includes upstate NY, MI and various…
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2nd (?) Best Game if the Year
There are things that don’t happen at the Pepsi Center. There are things that die off into the thin air we have up here that you expect in other places. The chants flashed on the scoreboard are picked up for a moment, the music is left to play without any reaction. Goals by opponents are…