Former Avs kill Avs
Written by Jibblescribbits   
Thursday, 04 March 2010 23:37

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Sometimes, this game is so damn predictable that it fucking hurts. Of course Wolski was going to score tonight, and everyone knew it was going to happen. Why did everyone know it was going to happen, because former Avs always score against the Avs. Well not always, sometimes they are failed backup goalies that have their game of the year and end up with a shutout, like Andrew Raycroft.
More after the jump

So I knew this was coming.  Don't believe me:
@zyllyx (Coyotes Fan) Avs fans are nervously anticipating the inevitable Wolski goal tonight.
 That was a tweet, by me, at about 8:30 the morning of the game. And here's my tweet exactly 7 minutes after Dater announced the trade yesterday:
If you know a bookie place a bet that Wolski scores against the Avs Thursday night. It's gonna happen.
10:47 AM Mar 3rd via web

I should have actually placed that bet. The worst part is that no Avs fan thinks I'm some kind of sage or prophet or anything, because ALL of us knew it was coming. And just to make sure all former Avs don't feel left out, Radim Vrbata scored an empty netter just as time expired

Vrbata now has 8 goals and 11 points in 12 games since 2006 against the Avs (earliest Hockey reference goes back). That's a .917PPG against the Avs. His career PPG is .534

Let's take a look at some other former Avs (since 2006, since that's the earliest Hockey-reference.com goes back):

Hell here's the list of players of former Avs who have played more than 1GA and haven't been very good against the Avs: Martin Skoula, and Derrek Morris. This is obviously not a complete list, but it's a pretty thorough one as far as I'm concerned.

So yes, it's pretty much a nightmare whenever a former Av plays the Avs. Tonight Wolski just added himself to a long, and very distinguished, list of former Avs kicking our ass. What a nightmare

 



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Peter the Great
written by J Scott Moore, March 05, 2010
The one by Forsberg just kills me.
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written by Dario, March 05, 2010
I agree Scott. That was brutal.

If you're a guy that doesn't like Wolski, that was pretty much the best thing that could have happened for you. Wolski got a huge payoff by letting Doan do all the work while he waited in the slot. It's just feeding his worst attribute. Sure, he just scored the second biggest goal of his career (1st being his playoff goal with the Avs from junior call up) but it wasn't a hustle goal. That's the only silver lining I can find.
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written by Jibble, March 05, 2010
The Forsberg one hurt about 1000x more than this, so that's kind of a silver lining. Right?
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written by pikeyrubbish, March 05, 2010
Put WW in that same situation in an Avalanche uniform, he doesn't take the shot sees a defenseman skating towards him and chases him right out of the attack zone and boom all of a sudden you have a game go into overtime, with every Avalanche fan screaming at their TV say "take the fucking shot!" I guess you just have upset a guy like Wolski for him to produce. I am glad he's gone.
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written by ard8, March 05, 2010
After a brutal loss like this, it's always tempting to focus on meaningless stuff like who scored the game winning goal. Fact is, the goal shouldn't have been scored. It was a total, team-wide defensive zone brain fart that lost the game. The Avs didn't get the puck deep in the yotes' zone when they had possession, they didn't reach the iced puck in their own zone first and then the Avs' two most experienced defenders both chased Doan behind the goal line.

I'm OK with the kids making mistakes. I expect the kids to make mistakes but I hope that the 2 shut-down defenders can, you know, shut it down. Instead, Foote and Hannan make rookie mistakes.

Oh, and I saw it coming too, especially after blowing the 4 on 3 PP.
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