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12 Feb 2013

Tweet Ian LaPaerriere Andrew Brunette Craig Anderson Chris Stewart Colby Cohen Kyle Quincey Kevin Porter TJ Galiardi Dan Winnik Ryan O'Reilly These were all names that I came up with, off the top of my head, that have had comments or actions that belay some level of criticality with Avs brass over the last few seasons (feel free to add any I missed in the comments). This doesn't include guys like Chris Drury and Alex...

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03 Feb 2013

Tweet     This graph is the ES Corsi of all Avs players with 50min of time on ice with Ryan O'Rilly last season. Green is CS% with O'Reiily on the ice with them, and Orange is their CS% without them on the ice. (Because Joomla is weird with big pics, here's a link to the full size graph, making it easier to read) On Adrian Dater's podcast today I said I understood both sides...

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28 Jan 2013

Tweet The Brad Stuart hit on Landeskog, and subsequent responses were a full blown comedy of errors. I have a ton of thoughts about the entire ordeal, so let's just take it from the top. If you haven't read this by Travis Hughes, a Flyers blogger, yet please do. It was fantastic. First, here's the hit: </embed> Gabriel Landeskog: The kid made the mistake of slightly losing track of the puck for a split second...

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16 Jan 2013

Tweet Ryan O’Reilly, the Avs leading scorer from last season, is in a contract dispute with the Avs. On Jan 16th Adrian Dater reported that over the summer the Avs offered Ryno a 5-year deal worth $17M, or $3.4M/season. Well, this information quickly changed the narrative of the Avs being cheap, to Ryan O’Reilly being greedy. Most fans on twitter seemed to think Ryan O’Reilly was crazy for asking for more. I was one of...

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06 Jan 2013

Tweet The NHL lockout is over so hockey regularly being on my TV is back. However the NHLPA and NHL reaching an agreement hasn’t made me forget how awful and unnecessary this lockout, and the length of this lockout, really was. What makes it even more infuriating is this Larry Brooks Tweet: Not to belabor the obvious, but this agreement is suspiciously close to the PA's Dec. 6 proposal to which the NHL responded with...

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04 Nov 2012

Tweet With the Avs out of action (IR-NHL Stupidity) and Jibblewife and I jonesing for hockey, we grabbed the Munchkin and went to our First Denver Cutthroats game last night. Minor league hockey isn’t really something I’m very familiar with, unless you count the 08-09 Avs. Tapeleg has always been the Minor League Hockey savant.Ryan Boulding over at Hockey on the Rocks and Cheryl over at Mile High Hockey have game write-ups, and I only...

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02 Jul 2012

Tweet With the Avs having about 25 NHL ready defensemen in their mix right now, I see some people a bit anxious about what happens to Cameron Guance, Tyson Barrie, and Stephan Elliott. I wouldn’t worry too much. They three of them are 22, 20 & 21 years of age, respectively. Very young for defensemen.I did some research on Defensemen this weekend for the last two blog posts, and here’s who I looked at: Zanon,...

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01 Jul 2012

Tweet Greg Zanon was the Avs second* move in the 2012 free agency day, but he’s going to be the first guy I profile. (*Matt Carkner excepted)Let’s start with some basics and work our way into the advanced stuff. Zanon’s a difficult one to profile, since he was on two teams, sites like Behindthenet.ca  don’t do as well with players who played for 2 teams. Zanon’s career high in points is 15, so I hope...

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30 Jun 2012

Tweet Better late than never eh? I’ll make this brief. As of 10:00pm the night of June 30th, the Avs have $14M they have to spend on players. They also have 4 RFAs (O’Reilly, Johnson, Olver, McGinn). While they could spend $14M on those 4 (Johnson at $6M, O’Reilly at $5M, McGinn and Olver at $1.5M. Yes it’s an overpayment, but in a world where David Jones gets $4M it’s more than plausible) the chances...

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07 May 2012

Tweet Yesterday Mike Chambers of the Denver Post had a write up at the Denver Post on Jan Hejda. I was unimpressed with his analysis.Let’s first adress the (very slight) potshot at me:Don’t believe your little league anonymous blogger — plus-minus is hockey’s best overall statistic, Actually let’s ignore the potshot and look at the content. You should question what I say. Always. You should be skeptical. Just because I say it, it doesn’t make...

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