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Mile High Hockey: Front Page Posts found this 3/19/2008 on www.denverpost.com [flag]
Coach Joel Quenneville says the Avalanche power play is getting better. The numbers, though, say something different. While it is true the Avs' PP percentage improved after Monday night's game at Minnesota, the humble fact is the Avs have been so poor this season that a 1-for-6 showing was, indeed, an improvement. Joe Sakic scored a power-play goal against the Wild, and the Avs did get five ... [link]

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Who Will Save The Kittens?
Published 3/19/2008 by Joe <milehighhockey@yahoo.com> at Mile High Hockey: Front Page Posts
... Forsberg, Joe Sakic, Milan Hejduk, Paul Stastny and John-Michael Liles, the Avalanche should have one of the most dominant PPs in the entire league.  On paper, it matches up with (or surpasses) any other team's.  But nobody seems to want to shoot, always passing off the responsibility to the guy next to them as time runs out.   Coach Quenneville thinks it's getting better, but it isn't.  The Avs went 1-6 against Minnesota on Monday night.   Dater even called his bluff: Quenneville said after Monday's loss that the ...

NHL Morning Papers--Western Conference (Wednesday Edition)
Published 3/19/2008 by Richard Pollock at IllegalCurve.com
... If the Avalanche want to make the playoffs, then they are going to have to improve on their porous power play. ...

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