Colorado Avalanche cup run 08

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Game 10 Colorado Avalanche - Calgary Flames 5:1 (shots 37:22)

3stars 1.Smyth 2.Hejduk 3.Stastny

comments : my big day of revenge the only team that beat me so far was teared up in Calgary 5:1 with the 2nd line S-S-H all over the place playing
and Wolski shooting as hell giving kipper a hard time in net won faceoffs 26:5!
Budaj worked hard stoping 21 shots allowing only a lucky one in the third came back to my first period hunting wining it 3:0

negatives - didnt score on 2 PP's im going nuts !, didnt get kipper out of calgary's net :D

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10 games recap

record 9-1-0

1st in division, conference and league

GF 47 First in league
GA 17 First in league

PP 10%
PK 70% Last in league !!

next game against the 9-1-0 Wild

Colorado Avalanche

Goalies

Budaj GP 9 W 9 GAA 1.46 Save% 94.12
Weiman GP 1 W 0 GAA 4.00 Save% 85.71

Budaj ( 1st in league in both Gaa and save % if i dont count goalies with less then 5 games )


Skaters

most points
1.stastny 15
2.sakic 15
3.brunette 13
4.smyth 11
5.hejduk 11

most goals
1.svatos 7
2.smyth 7
3.brunette 7
4.sakic 6
5.stastny 5

League

most points
1.Kovalchuk 20
2.Hossa 19
3.Williams 18
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7. Stastny


most goals
1.Malkin 11
2.Kovalchuk 11
3.Brindamour 10
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9.Svatos

thinks to change
- theodore is back as backup goalie
- will change lines for PP cause its horible
- maybe some young D-man going to have a chance to play
- set the fighting slider higher cause no one wanted to fight lapperiere

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Game 11 Minesota Wild - Colorado Avalanche 1:2 (shots 11:51)

3stars 1.Backstrom 2.Svatos 3.Hannan

comments : ok so now here is the proof that Backstrom is the only reason the wilds are 9-1-1 i never ever saw playing a goalie on any nhl game sooo good as this fenomenal game
he had 50 saves !! 50! i played 6 !! 6! powerplays (thats why the sick amount of shots) and didn't score on any one !! even with the changes in the pp lines i couldn't get one but i think this time it was Backstroms fault
so we go into overtime 1:1 the score after a lucky wild goal as always after only 5 shots in the first they only needed one in the second to get past Budaj ... overtime gone and here comes the shotout BUDAJ stoping all 4 of them and Brunette scoring giving avs the WIN

Shattenkirk (the 1st round draft pick) played his 1st nhl game and looked good replacing the poor playing Skrastins on the 3th defense line

PP lines before
Smyth Sakic Brunette
Wolski Stastny Svatos

PP lines now
Hensick Stastny Svatos (sakic on D)
Smyth Hlinka Wolski (hlinka will be changed for Sakic)

Sakic - save
Svatos - save
Wolski - save
Brunette - goal

negatives - didn't score on 6 PP, scored only 1 on 51 shots, Hlinka is poor on faceoffs cost me alot of time in my PP

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Game 12 Pitsburg Penguins - Colorado Avalanche 3:4 (shots 35:20)

3stars 1.Smyth 2.Sykora 3.Armstrong

comments : first i was thinking this is gona be a hard one cause of crosby malkin and co but after beating Fleury 2 times in the first it looked easy but not for long it turned out that they best was their defense blocking atleast 15 of my shots and interupting passes like hell Budaj got 32 saves nice :)
Svatos scored the gamewiner 20 seconds before the end of the third period
Smyth scored a PP goal finaly someone :D and i killed one penalty also

negatives - was outshotet, couldn't get more shots

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Movie (Svatos GW goal)
YouTube - Svatos gw
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Game 13 Vancouver Canucks - Colorado Avalanche 7:5 (shots 29:30)

3stars 1.Svatos 2.Wolski 3.Sakic

comments : very weak game by Budaj, Great game by Wolski scoring a hatrick he was a BEAST along with Svatos the first line rocked to bad it didnt help to win suprising Vancouver shined thru their offense and were leading the game from the begining i lost it in the third when i tied 5:5 5 mins left in the game i let in 2 weak goals

negatives - 2nd loss this season, loss against a division team, Budaj's first season loss, let one in on the PK

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Game 14 Calgary Flames - Colorado Avalanche 4:7 (shots 27:25)

3stars 1.Sakic 2.Wolski 3.Svatos

comments : scoring on 2 of my 3 powerplays was a nice start to the game but didn't hold long calgary was hungry for the revenge and always was close behind my game Budaj play wasnt much interesting and when he doesnt step up in the next 2 games Theodore will get his chance my first line rocked again Wolski Sakic Svatos won the game for the avs scoreing 5 of my 7 goals

negatives - outshotet, Budaj and the defense let too many 2 on 1 rushes

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Game 15 Edmonton Oilers - Colorado Avalanche 1:4 (shots 19:25)

3stars 1.Brunette 2.Hejduk 3.Smyth

comments : meeting a weak edmonton with a 3-10-2 home was the relax i needed
coming slowly into plat and making a 3goal 3rth period i leaded 4:0 but it just
shouldn be 2 mins before the end they scored a lucky goal ruining Budajs so nice
game so far but he still got an awesome above 94% i killed 2 penalties in this game

negatives - didnt score on the PP, let a lucky goal near the end go in

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Game 16 Colorado Avalanche - Vancouver Canucks 5:0 (shots 30:16)

3stars 1.Wolski 2.Sakic 3.Svatos

comments : my first line is unstoppable !! also Budaj earned with 16 saves his 3rth SO of the season nice job i scored on 1 of my 3 PP but non the less i moved up to the best team in PPG % around 20 PK is still wors in the league
easy game destroeyd them in the second half of the game with 2 late 2nd period and 3 3th period goals

negatives - missed 2 PP not scoring

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Game 17 Minesota Wild - Colorado Avalanche 1:4 (shots 20:35)

3stars 1.Smyth 2.Budaj 3.Hlinka

comments : Backstrom again making me some hard time i tied the first period 0:0 then losing 1:0 and tied it later in the 2dn jumping to 3:1 lead thanks to Smyth's 2nd goal of the game in a PP and Hlinkas SH goal last one was an empty netter by Sakic Minesota is now 13-4-0-1 and 3 of these 4 losses are agains my team :D (killed one penalty scored on it even and scored on my PP)

negatives - none !!


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Game 18 Colorado Avalanche - Dallas Stars 4:1 (shots 32:27)

3stars 1.Smyth 2.Budaj 3.Stastny

comments : Budaj stopped 26 shots to help the avs to an easy win
the PP lines clicket and got another pp goal in 3 games in a row
my 2nd line had a great game a Hannan skipped Bertuzzi for the top
spot in Hits in the league i won the faceoffs very close Modano is
a faceoff god

negatives - didnt score on the other PP

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