http://avalancheticketscolo.blogdrive.com/ ColoradoAvalanche Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:55:00 PDT http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2006. Sports Sports Sports http://avalancheticketscolo.blogdrive.com/archive/7.html Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:51:30 GMT The Colorado Avalanche head home with the hope of taking firm command of their conference quarterfinal set tonight when they welcome the Dallas Stars to the Pepsi Center for Game 3. The Avs posted a 5-2 win in Saturday's Game 1, before Monday's 5-4 overtime tilt. In Game 2, Joe Sakic scored 4:36 into overtime to lift the seventh seed, as the Colorado captain netted his NHL-record seventh career overtime winner in the playoffs.. Milan Hejduk posted a goal and three assists while Brett Clark forced overtime with a late third-period marker for the Avalanche. Goaltender Jose Theodore made 21... (more) http://avalancheticketscolo.blogdrive.com/comments?id=7 http://avalancheticketscolo.blogdrive.com/archive/6.html Thu, 13 Apr 2006 22:09:11 GMT Only a freak alignment of the stars will keep the Avalanche out of the playoffs for the first time since the team moved to Denver in 1995. Vancouver's 5-4 overtime loss Wednesday night to San Jose kept the door open for a crazy but highly unlikely scenario to knock out the Avs. The only way Colorado misses the playoffs is if Vancouver takes the upper hand in the fourth tiebreaker - goal differential between the teams, which currently favors the Avs by 29 goals. It would take an epic performance by the Canucks to leapfrog the Avalanche. Here's why: If the Avalanche goes 0-3 in... (more) http://avalancheticketscolo.blogdrive.com/comments?id=6 http://avalancheticketscolo.blogdrive.com/archive/5.html Tue, 04 Apr 2006 17:56:49 GMT For 59 minutes, the Colorado Avalanche were on their way to a bad loss. The final 58 seconds of regulation changed all that. Dan Hinote and Rob Blake scored in the last minute, and the Avalanche moved within three points of the Northwest Division lead with a 4-3 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Monday night. "This was big because we needed these points," Blake said. "I got a power play at the end and Danny made a strong move down the wall, put the puck to the net and it went in." Blake scored two goals and became the 17th NHL defenseman to score 200. Andrew Brunette added a goal,... (more) http://avalancheticketscolo.blogdrive.com/comments?id=5 http://avalancheticketscolo.blogdrive.com/archive/4.html Wed, 01 Mar 2006 20:09:45 GMT Slowly but surely, the old gang is getting back together. The Colorado Avalanche practiced Sunday for the fourth time since reconvening from a 10-day, Winter Olympics-imposed hiatus, and the team finally welcomed some of its returning heroes back to the ice. The Avalanche's goaltenders returned to the nets, as Peter Budaj and David Aebischer practiced with the club for the first time since their personally successful experiences in Turin, Italy. Rookie winger Marek Svatos, Budaj's teammate on the Slovakian national team, also returned. The nine Colorado players who participated in the... (more) http://avalancheticketscolo.blogdrive.com/comments?id=4 http://avalancheticketscolo.blogdrive.com/archive/3.html Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:11:48 GMT Guy Lafleur didn't have to be polite about it. But he was. While rooming on the road with a young Quebec Nordiques center, Lafleur always stepped into the hotel room's bathroom and shut the door before he lit up his cigarette. "To me, it didn't matter," Colorado Avalanche captain Joe Sakic said with a laugh, years later. "I mean, what am I going to say to him? You see him come to your team, and you remember watching him flying out there against Boston and everybody. I was nervous at first to be around him, but he's a great guy. He was so nice to me, a good teammate." This week, Sakic... (more) http://avalancheticketscolo.blogdrive.com/comments?id=3 http://avalancheticketscolo.blogdrive.com/archive/2.html Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:07:43 GMT The San Jose Sharks sit last in the NHL's Pacific Division. An eight-point crevice separates them from the eighth-place Colorado Avalanche for the last playoff spot. Yet, Western Conference teams still hear the "Jaws" theme, which grew louder after the Sharks acquired center Joe Thornton from the Boston Bruins in December. People are a bit nervous. "They were picked as one the three top teams in the Western Conference and that was before they acquired Joe Thornton," said King Coach Andy Murray, whose team has a double-digit point lead on the Sharks, yet lost four of five games to them. The... (more) http://avalancheticketscolo.blogdrive.com/comments?id=2 http://avalancheticketscolo.blogdrive.com/archive/1.html Tue, 31 Jan 2006 20:55:29 GMT On a team ranked second in the NHL in scoring, the Colorado Avalanche's most productive player isn't speedy Alex Tanguay, soft-handed Milan Hejduk or even Joe Sakic. It's 23-year-old Marek Svatos, who is quietly proving to be one of the league's top rookies while helping the Avs steadily climb the standings. Svatos has 29 goals this season, seven more than Tanguay and 10 more than Sakic. His 44 points put him third on a team that has closed in on the Northwest Division lead. Colorado trails division leader Calgary by three points. During a recent eight-game winning streak, Svatos had his... (more) http://avalancheticketscolo.blogdrive.com/comments?id=1