denverpost.com - 11/19/2008
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CALGARY, Alberta The Avalanche brought its "A" game to the Pengrowth Saddledome on Tuesday night: Awful. Atrocious. Abysmal. Take your pick of adjectives. In one of the worst efforts the Avalanche has ever put forward, it lost 4-1 to the Calgary Flames to finish a three-game road trip. That the ...
blogs.denverpost.com - 11/24/2008
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blogs.denverpost.com —
Here’s a fuller account of Ian Laperriere’s comments
toward the Kings’ John Zeiler, whose dirty hit last
night on Adam Foote injured his back (and maybe more than that - we’ll know more later when I go to Avs practice at the ...
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Lappy: “It’s a lack of respect”
sports.yahoo.com - 11/24/2008
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sports.yahoo.com —
If the hit from behind Los Angeles Kings
forward John Zeiler put on Adam Foote of the
Colorado Avalanche has skipped your mind already, we posted the video over the weekend. It shows Foote going to the corner for the puck, looking back at Zeiler ...
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Kings' Zeiler only gets three games for Foote hit
denverpost.com - 11/17/2008
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denverpost.com —
CALGARY, Alberta It was always an iffy proposition
whether Avalanche captain Joe Sakic would be able to
play on the team's current road trip. Now, there is no more uncertainty he won't. Sakic skated over the weekend in Denver, and the team says his ...
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No-go for Joe on road trip - The Denver Post
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Game 17: Flames 4, Avalanche 1
Mile High Hockey —
... Budaj basket, and this time they got burned for it. And not because Budaj failed to produce, but because one guy can't be expected to carry a team that doesn't look like it wants to play hockey at all.
The Calgary Flames took advantage of the Avs' ambivalence and crushed them 4-1. Budaj, for what it's worth, stopped 47 of the 50 shots he faced. That's right, 50 shots, which don't include the 25 his defensive teammates managed to block.
Said Ian Laperriere:
"We were in the box all night ...
NHL Morning Papers (Wednesday Edition): Peter Chiarelli deserves an extension, Naslund versus the Canucks and Sundin may return by mid-December
IllegalCurve.com —
... in Calgary on Tuesday. Adrian Dater of the Denver Post thinks it is one of the worst efforts he has ever seen from an Avalanche team. ...
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