SB Nation User Blog: Tommelot

Upon hearing Hedman was the 2nd overall pick. All credits go to the avslova Factor for this beauty!

Tommelot — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:43:27 -0000

Upon hearing Hedman was the 2nd overall pick.

All credits go to the avslova Factor for this beauty!

Remember #60?

Tommelot — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:20:41 -0000

Remember how all the women in Denver were swooning and crying to see their tattoo'd hero vs. the Wild leave last summer? Well, he finally did it.

After Varlamov finally realised, in the second period, he's not supposed to be playing this well for his age, our beloved Jose Theodore got a chance to strut his stuff.

The endresult is probably best suscribed by this picture:

via 3.bp.blogspot.com

The Caps should've seen it coming. No matter how well your star player is, your goalie is always gonna suck monkeyballs.

Spector on Sakic retirement

Tommelot — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:17:26 -0000

Spector on Sakic retirement

"If Sakic does decide to return it remains to be seen if the Avalanche will bring him back for one more year. It's quite likely but it could be for a significantly reduced contract."

AD makes funny jokes regarding Tyler "> Tucker" Arnason

Tommelot — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:59:42 -0000

AD makes funny jokes regarding Tyler "> Tucker" Arnason

Wow, Donut line? Where would you get that joke from?

Rick Nash is optimistic about his team's playoff chances

Tommelot — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:13:38 -0000

Rick Nash is optimistic about his team's playoff chances

Smyth contract scary

Tommelot — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:36:10 -0000

According to both P. Daddy and David Staples (Edmonton Oilers writer). I understand Mr. Staples might be feeling a little sad to see his old captain in a unipron, but Wyshnysky aught to know the Avs have made far worse Free agent signings the last year. I admit I was a little scared last season when he wasn't performing, but this season he's the real deal. Conclusion: Jealousy is an ugly colour.

New goalposts. Sad day for Rayzor

Tommelot — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:34:04 -0000

New goalposts. Sad day for Rayzor

They're planning on changing the type of goalposts from cylindrical to flat (with the normal of the side pointing to the center of the goal). This sounds like a great idea, but then I realised Rayzor probably has had the most lucky bounces in NHL history.

Foppa Skating

Tommelot — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:19:49 -0000

Foppa Skating

Credit where credit's due, so there u go Mr. Dater.

Click on the middle bar, where u see Foppa's face being interviewed. You'll see him skating around the 3:30 mark

"Absolutely I appreciated that," Raycroft said. "It's not an easy thing to do. Shots usually don't...

Tommelot — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:00:38 -0000

"Absolutely I appreciated that," Raycroft said. "It's not an easy thing to do. Shots usually don't go in if they don't get to the net."

Trade Rumours begin

Tommelot — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:31:50 -0000

Giguere talked about how hard it is to trade players nowadays, with all the teams being so close to the cap. This, to me, implied that he's willing to stirr things up a bit and make some roster changes.

As puck daddy is starting up their first 'rumors live chat', the Avs are being thrown to the sharks as sellers. According to the fourth period

According to a radio report stemming from Ottawa's Team 1200, the Avalanche and Senators are discussing a trade that might involve forward Marek Svatos and defenseman John-Michael Liles. It's uncertain what the Senators might ship back to Colorado in exchange.

JML and Svats combine for a cap hit of 6.3M, where the senators have 2.6M in capspace left. The 3.7M left could be traded our way in the shape of Mike Fisher (12 pts), a hockey player I know nothing about. But would there honestly be a single Avalanche fan interested in this trade? It looks absurd.

It's also very unlikely they're gonna be trading Alfredsson, the life-long face of the franchise.

Dany Heatley and his 7.5M caphit, however, could be making the trip to Denver. I'm sure we'd be able to pay him with all the injuries. He brings 0.95 pts/game to the table this season, exactly like Liles and Svatos (freaky coincidence; careerwise pts/g are also exactly the same at 1.10). This would look like a good trade for the Avalanche, as they'd be able to dress another player without expecting any point-production from him. Where are we gonna find another body to dress though, with all the injuries and all? My conclusion for this trade is, even though it looks tempting, a solid 'thanks, but no thanks'.

The same goes for the younger and cheaper Spezza, who would also better, as he's a center instead of a LW.

The biggest downside on both these trades is that both of these signings would make a return of Foppa, our savior, to the unipron even less likely.

Regardless of this rumour, I strongly believe that JML is one of the players that is in line (together with Stastny and Wolski maybe) to be the next face of the franchise.

I wouldn't mind seeing a "Tucker for Bruno" deal, with FG proudly admitting he made a mistake and makes up for it.

All Caphit numbers are from NHLnumbers