... äääähhhhmmm wenn ich mich recht erinnere ......
SHARKS LOST GAME SEVEN = LOOSER = OUT = sharks spielen G O L F ... KEIN hockey mehr ....
aber ich habe ja sogar das heutige spiel FÜR die WINGS getippt .... dann
kommt die A V A L A N C H E aber ins rollen ....
chris
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DIE JEDIMASTER AUS DENVER FREUEN SICH AUF DEN FIGHT GEGEN DIE BÖSEN WINGS !!!
Denver Post
Forsberg ready for Game 1 against Wings
By Adam Thompson
Denver Post Sports Writer
Saturday, May 18, 2002 - DETROIT - He may not have been swearing on a stack of Bibles at the time, but Colorado Avalanche forward Peter Forsberg did indicate the health of his wrist would not be a major factor as his team opens the Western Conference finals today against the Detroit Red Wings.
Asked how he felt Friday, Forsberg replied, "My hand is good."
After scoring what turned out to be the only goal in the Avs' 1-0 Game 7 victory Wednesday over the San Jose Sharks in the conference semifinals, Forsberg took a hard slash from Teemu Selanne. That marked the latest of several shots he has absorbed in these playoffs and throughout much of his career.
Forsberg also was asked if his intensity had anything to do with his time spent in the training room. He missed the last two rounds of last year's playoffs after losing his spleen from punishing hits against the Los Angeles Kings, and this year missed the entire regular season.
"Of course I had a few injuries throughout my career, but I think it's the way hockey is played nowadays," he said. "You have to play physical every game and every shift. You can't take a shift off."
Forsberg's postseason success - he leads the NHL with 19 points through two rounds - has prompted other players to joke that they should start skipping the regular season, too.
But Colorado general manager Pierre Lacroix suggested there was nothing funny about Forsberg's absence, and admitted the thought of his star player retiring early because of burnout crossed his mind.
"In a situation like that, it's pretty obvious that you're afraid of the worse scenario all the time," Lacroix said. "But to say that I was in a frame of mind that he would never come back, that would be exaggerating. On the other hand, he had a concussion and he had surgery over the previous couple of years. It's been pretty tough physically for him.
"When you're in a situation like he was, automatically it's going to get you not depressed, but you're going to feel like you need a break from the business you're in. And that's what he made me understand. He said, "Let me heal.' And by his action, I think it was pretty obvious he knew deeply what he was doing. But obviously, today it confirms that he was right."
Loose pucks
Detroit goalie Dominik Hasek predicted there would be no repeat of his fight in the regular season with Colorado goalie Patrick Roy.
"I never say never," he said. "You never know what can happen. However, I'm not thinking about fighting someone or being involved in a fight. This is the playoffs, and you have to be focused on your job, which is stopping the puck."
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Red Wings center Igor Larionov, who has been slowed by a knee injury, said whether he played Saturday would be a game-time decision. He did not practice Friday.
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Avs, Wings smell blood
That's no surprise, considering how ferocious the rivalry
By Mike Burrows
Denver Post Sports Writer
Friday, May 17, 2002 - Leave it to a lawyer to wish for another Colorado Avalanche-Detroit Red Wings series.
Care to litigate that slashing penalty, anybody?
"You think of Avs-Red Wings, you think of players being taken off on stretchers," said Jim Gale, a former Denver-area resident who flew in from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., last week to see his beloved Avs play a postseason game against the San Jose Sharks at the Pepsi Center. "Here's my card."
Just in case.
Gale, 45, said he gladly would "pay through the nose" to obtain Colorado-Detroit tickets. Fitting, because the Avs and Red Wings figure to pay with their noses for the right to represent the Western Conference in the Stanley Cup Finals.
"You couldn't write it any better," said Dan Hinote, a forward for the defending Stanley Cup champion Avalanche. "You know the Red Wings have been waiting for us."
Yes, they have.
"It's probably the way it should be," Detroit's Brendan Shanahan said. "We were the top two teams in the Western Conference during the season, so it's only fitting that we're the last two standing."
Saturday's Game 1 at Detroit's aptly named Joe Louis Arena will start writing the fifth playoff chapter of a rock-'em, sock-'em rivalry arguably unlike any other in the National Hockey League, if not professional sports.
"Basically, what you get with an Avs-Red Wings series is the potential for seven games of Broncos-Raiders," Avalanche fan Ben Friedland, 27, of Silverthorne, a public relations manager for Copper Mountain, said during the San Jose series. "What could be better? It's even got a bit of the NASCAR effect to it. The Pepsi Center is our Roman Colosseum, and we're pretty much here to see blood. Fans are lying if they say they don't love that, and the Avs and Red Wings have been known to deliver when they get together."
Watch the opener at Pepsi Center
Game 1: Avalanche vs. Red Wings, 1 p.m. Saturday, at Detroit in the NHL Western Conference finals
TV: Shown on the Pepsi Center Jumbotron
Tickets: $5 through Ticketmaster (303-830-8497 or www.ticketmaster.com; concession stands open, free parking
Count former NHL goaltender Darren Pang among those eagerly awaiting the renewal of a rivalry that's produced more bad blood, some of it spilled, than Jerry Springer's guests.
"It's what you live for, what we wait for all year," said Pang, an NHL analyst for ESPN and ABC. "We're trying to sell Tampa Bay against Anaheim during the regular season, so we absolutely get excited about this."
Oddly, it wasn't there Oct. 6, 1995, when Colorado beat Detroit 3-2 in the Avs' Denver debut. That summer, the franchise had moved from Quebec.
It was an unremarkable game, and nothing during the 1995-96 regular season hinted at what was to come. Then the playoffs arrived, and you know what hit the fans, if not the players.
Having set a league record with 62 victories in the regular season, the Red Wings were heavily favored to win the 1996 Stanley Cup. But they couldn't get past the Western Conference finals, where the Avs eliminated them in six games after bolting to 2-0 and 3-1 series leads. Led by Joe Sakic's goals and Patrick Roy's goaltending, the Avs ended up winning the Stanley Cup, a feat that punctuated their first season in Denver.
"That's where it started," said Norm Jones, the Avs' radio analyst since their debut. "The Avalanche won what the Red Wings were supposed to win. Here was this upstart Colorado team that had moved over from the Eastern Conference, and it stepped up and beat the mighty Red Wings. That first playoff series between the teams was when hockey really became part of the fabric of this community, and it's never tailed off."
Claude Lemieux's vicious hit on Detroit's Kris Draper in Game 6 of that series not only ticked off the Red Wings, it provided fuel for what became a wilder ride than anything at Elitch Gardens. Driven face first into the boards, Draper's gruesome injuries included a broken jaw and cheekbone.
"The single moment in which people started to pay attention to the meeting of these two teams as something out of the ordinary," said KKFN radio's Sandy Clough, a longtime host of sports talk shows in Denver, recalling the Lemieux-Draper incident. "That was the big one. Lemieux by himself created a kind of culture around the rivalry. He activated everything that followed. He was the reason we had March 26, 1997."
That was the day the Red Wings retaliated. And having waited nearly a year to do so, while Lemieux recovered from an unrelated injury, they made it count.
Three seconds into the regular-season game at Detroit, the Red Wings' Darren McCarty began pummeling Lemieux. The referee, Mark Faucette, handed out 42 minutes of penalties - in the first period. Roy even traded punches with his counterpart, Red Wings goaltender Mike Vernon.
It didn't stop there. Lemieux and McCarty went at it again the next season, waiting only for the opening faceoff of their clubs' first meeting. Five months later, with the Avs back in Detroit and the 1998 playoffs near, Roy fought Red Wings goaltender Chris Osgood. Roy fared considerably better than he had against Vernon.
"He tries everything he can," Red Wings coach Scotty Bowman said of Roy after the fight with Osgood. "The only thing he didn't do was win an Olympic medal and I'm kind of glad about that," he said, referring to the Roy's play for Canada in the 1998 Games in Nagano, Japan. "We'd never have heard the end of it."
The Avs-Red Wings rivalry is one of the few in pro sports with staying power. In the National Basketball Association, even the famously feuding Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers drifted farther apart than their respective coasts - primarily because the Celtics faded after winning their most recent title, in 1986, while the Lakers remained competitive.
"Rivalries are part of what makes sports so exciting," said Richard Lapchick, founder of the Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University in Boston. "This deep into the playoffs, the excitement already is there. But a rivalry increases it and often creates antagonism between the cities involved."
Denver and Detroit qualify.
"It goes back to the fact that the Avs and Red Wings are two of the NHL's elite teams.
... Each has won the Stanley Cup twice since the Avs arrived in Denver, and each expects to win more," Jones said.
Twice in four playoff series between the Avs and the Red Wings, the survivor ended up winning the Stanley Cup - Colorado in 1996, Detroit in '97. The Avs have won three of those four series.
The Avs and Red Wings called a truce for April 9, 2000, when they met in a regular-season finale at the Pepsi Center and played the NHL's first penalty-free game in 20 years.
"Never thought it would be us two teams," Shanahan said, grinning.
Nobody thought the truce would last, and it didn't.
When the Red Wings blanked the Avs 2-0 at the Pepsi Center on March 23, Shanahan's 500th goal wasn't the only highlight. Two minutes after Shanahan scored in the third period, teammate Kirk Maltby was pushed into Roy's net by the Avs' Martin Skoula.
"What I didn't like is that (Maltby) tried to take my knee off," Roy told reporters.
Red Wings goaltender Dominik Hasek - skating the length of the ice to "help my teammates" - accidentally slid into Roy, knocking Roy off his feet. An agitated Roy was ready to start swinging.
"It would have been interesting," Roy said, "if the ref had not been there" to separate the goalies.
Some believe the series may be what the NHL needs.
"The league needs to advertise two teams that play the game the way it should be played," Clough said, "and the Avalanche and Red Wings this season are the two most obvious examples of that. Six, seven years ago, (the league) could not have taken on that challenge because of the other stuff they were producing."
Litigious stuff.
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In Antwort auf: SHARK ????? who the fuck are sharks ????
... äääähhhhmmm wenn ich mich recht erinnere ......
SHARKS LOST GAME SEVEN = LOOSER = OUT = sharks spielen G O L F ... KEIN hockey mehr ....
Hää????
DEUTSCHER MEISTER 2002!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mein nick bezieht sich auf die DEL, nicht auf die NHL!!!
Wow, doch einer hier im forum der sich nicht mehr erinnert...
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\"wir sind keine religion, wir sind nicht deines gottes sohn;
doch wir sind das woran du glaubst, wir sind das was du oft brauchst;
wir sind dein kleiner bürgerkrieg, wir sind der prinz den du so liebst;
wir sind das was du nicht siehst, wir sind der traum in dem du fliegst;
diese lieder sagen mehr als tausend worte, sie sind immer für dich da;
sie war´n der trost, der freund in deinem leben, wenn niemand bei dir war\\\"
Hier EUER frühstück .... vom GAME WINNER P E R S Ö N L I CH !!!
Home-Ice Goes To Avs
Patrick Roy made 30 saves in the Avs' Game 2 win.
While Chris Drury gets the credit for once again beating the Red Wings with his game-winning goal Monday night, Peter Forsberg and Patrick Roy paved the way for the Avalanche's 4-3 overtime victory at Detroit. Despite all his various injuries, Forsberg had three assists and one goal and Roy made 30 saves -- including a brilliant one at the end of regulation -- to send the series back to Colorado tied at 1.
chris
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In Antwort auf: Despite all his various injuries, Forsberg had three assists and one goal and Roy made 30 saves -- including a brilliant one at the end of regulation -- to send the series back to Colorado tied at 1.
Roy hat sich das 3:3 aber schön selber reingehauen
War ein "unglücklicher" Treffer. Lidström mit ner Wuchtbrumme von der Blauen, der Puck geht knapp am Tor vorbei. Kommt von der Bande zurück und prallt Roy an den Schlittschuh und ins Tor.
Aber wie war das doch mit der Statistik gleich ( Leopold hatte es ja angesprochen ). Roy gewinnt das nächste Spiel Und so kam es ja dann auch wieder...
also zu kaspes leistung muß man sagen,daß es klar war das er nicht so spiele´n kann wie bei den pens.Dort war er der einzige gute verteidiger und in Denver ist er halt nur nr.3 bzw 4.
Den Beinamen The pest wird wohl bald ablegen müssen.Am Anfang sprachen einige schon von einem Bust,aber er scheint sich jetzt mit seiner Rolle zu identifizieren.
Ich bleib aber immer noch dabei,der Trade war shit
der einzig gute verteidiger nun nicht gleich, aber er hatte halt ne andere rolle. und ausserdem wollte Kaspar nicht aus Pittsburgh weg, das muss man auch sehen. Leider sind solche Spieler für Pittsburgh die nächsten 10 Jahre zu teuer
Atenio
Bapho!
Fighting for Peace is like fucking for virginity!
Auf jeden Fall hält die Serie bis jetzt, was sie versprochen hat. Ziemlich ausgeglichen. Sieht man auch daran, dass von den bis jetzt gespielten 6 Dritteln (ok, und 2:17 min OT) 5 (!) 1-1 ausgegangen sind.
Ich tippe mal ganz offensiv, dass das nicht die letzte Overtime gewesen ist in dieser Serie...
...wohl aber die kürzeste !
0-1 Blake PPG Forsberg, Sakic
1-1 Robitaille
2-1 Olausson OT
....
ich glaube die beiden juckt das HOME ICE wirklich nicht .... hier ist Mighty Joe´s Aussage dazu:
"Home ice, it really doesn't matter. A lot of road teams have won this year in the playoffs. … With both of our teams, they're not afraid to play here and we're not afraid to play there. So it really doesn't matter. It's whoever plays best that day.''
– Joe Sakic
na dann .... ich hoffe nur, dass es am samstag abend 2 beide steht ....
chris
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_______Stanley Cup Champions 1996 & 2001_________
www.coloradoavalanche.com
Colorado Avalanche Hockey Club
Pepsi Center
1000 Chopper Circle
Denver, CO 80204
303/405-1100
In Antwort auf: ich hoffe nur, dass es am samstag abend 2 beide steht
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Da kann ich mich nur anschliessen!
ich mich nicht!!!!!
Aber egal wer die serie gewinnt, diese mannschaft hat den cup mehr als verdient!!!!
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doch wir sind das woran du glaubst, wir sind das was du oft brauchst;
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wir sind das was du nicht siehst, wir sind der traum in dem du fliegst;
diese lieder sagen mehr als tausend worte, sie sind immer für dich da;
sie war´n der trost, der freund in deinem leben, wenn niemand bei dir war\\\"
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