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Leaving your feet to cross check a stick to the head is clean now? People have been suspended for less.

This still makes me sick...no call.

I wish, more often it's the team up 4-1 that gives up, forgets what kinda play got them there and starts playing some half assed attempt at a trap, and lets the other team come back.

Time to take your sarcasm detector into the shop.

<----Always fun to barely limp into the playoffs and then being told your punishment is getting to play San Jose in the first round of the playoffs.

I agree that colds suck...I'm just not 100% convinced that he actually had one..to me it looked like he coulda had the flu..but he coulda also just been good ol Theodore that I had until recently grown to hate for the last 2 years..call me crazy but I keep expecting him to slip back into the goalie hes been for the last 2 years. I learned a long time ago not to trust a word any hockey team says about the health of their players.

I disagree...you can say that about a team like Dallas or Vancouver or even the Avs...but not Detroit. Detroit is a shut down team built to play with the lead...they are built specifically to avoid teams coming back on them and thats why they tend to struggle to come back from deficits themselves. The Avs were just asleep for the first period in front of a "sick" goalie...they were the better team for the rest of the game. But all that really matters is who won the game..and the 4 goals Detroit put in in the first period were enough.

We need to quit with the injuries..or start dishing some out of our own. Detroit was way more physical than we were throughout the entire game. I think it was a bad idea to pair Foote w/ Hannan and dont understand why Quenneville changed the pairings that were working (Foote/Sauer, Hannan/Liles, Leo or Finger/Salei)..but thats what he does and I hate it. I dont know how much is true but I guess Theodore was sick Wed night but "begged to play"..I duno but I guess I'll hope it's true. I don't want to see Budaj get the start unless Theo is "sick" again. Wolski being out hurt us a lot more than I

Heh..it does however suck which is what I think you were trying to say .I usually work till later but I'm bailing early and going immediately to a bar downtown to watch the game instead of hopping the light rail toward closer to home so I don't miss any of it.

Uhh..the game is in Detroit...and Detroit is in the eastern time zone...so it'll be 7:30pm there...games always start 7-8pm in the time zone of the city in which theyre played..this is nothing new...so it makes perfect sense.

I'll bet the redwings go back to hasek by the end of the avs series.

Yea..Theo was the MVP of the Avs series AINEC...with Foote coming in second followed by Sakic/Forsberg and an honorable mention to Salei IMO. Gaborik was LVP solely because of Foote and Theo.

If we see Detroit I would prefer to see them in the finals. Weve always matched up well against Dallas (the last 2 playoff series weve beat them 4-1 the last time they beat us was..99 or 00 in 7 games?) and while Richards definately makes them better I don't think it's enough to beat us in 7 games. I want to see Detroit because it's been so long since we've had a Detroit-Avs series and we didn't really get to play them healthy this year so we're looking for some payback...but I'd rather see them in the finals than the 2nd round..and I think if we play Dallas and Detroit plays Calgary we'll bot

I still think we'll be playing Dallas in the next round and Detroit in the finals..but we'll see...Dallas looks like crap right now after 2 periods of play.I think Calgary finishes upsetting San Jose and Dallas finishes off Anaheim eventually.[EDIT] heh..as I'm writing this Dallas scores the tying goal on the PP

Just wanted to comment on the article that was linked..Kizla is a tremendous tool..I want to kick him in the head everytime he writes a hockey article. We all completely ignore him here in Denver..I'd suggest everybody else do the same.