According to this, the Avalanche are:

• Top 10 in the "Dirty Penalties" catagory. Penalties such as: boarding, charging, checking from behind, clipping, elbowing, kneeing, and roughing
• Cody McLeod is tied with Matt Cooke for #2 for player with most dirty penalties, 1 behind Chris Neil.
• Top 8 in the "Cheating Penalties" catagory. Penalties such as: holding, holding the stick, hooking, goalie interference, interference, and tripping
• Statsny is one of the players listed with at least 15 cheating penalites

Well done boys. Goon it up. Claude'd be proud.

It's on ESPN... it must be so.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=hruby/110127_nhl_payrolls&sportCat=nhl

This could mean a variety of things: we're cheap, we're thrifty, we'll have cap problems later, we can pick up some players at the deadline, we can lock up some talent for the future....... whatever. It's an article about the Avs that has jacksquatt to do with Peter Forsberg.

Hey... at least we're 2nd best at something this year

Oh.... and Suck it Detroit