We all knew that defenseman Ruslan Salei wasn’t going to be back with the Avalanche this season. Heck, at this point, Stevie Y has used the Avalanche to help build his team this season by signing free agents Brett Clark and Chris Durno. Rusty, however, signed with the Detroit Red Wings today.
If things keeps going the way they have, I’m going to start calling the Tampa Bay Lightning the Colorado Avalanche East, as they’ve now added Chris Durno to their list of Colorado acquisitions. He joins Brett Clark and former Philadelphia Flyer Simon Gagné.
While the Colorado Avalanche may have not figured Brett Clark to have a place in their blossoming young team, at least one other General Manager thinks otherwise. The newly appointed Vice President and General Manager of the Tampa Bay Lightning was quick to snatch up such a catch.
While the Colorado Avalanche greatly improved over a dismal season last year, shattering expectations left and right and arguably putting up more of a fight than the Detroit Red Wings against the San Jose Sharks in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, the Avalanche were bogged down throughout the regular and post-season by their defensive situation.
It has already been a brutal Stanley Cup Playoffs for the Colorado Avalanche, who have seen key players drop like flies to various injuries. If you go back to the Peter Mueller injury, things have been pretty bad. So much so that Coach Sacco has been forced to perform a game 4 roster shuffle.
The entire season could diminish in just 60 minutes here tonight. I won’t say it’s over if the Colorado Avalanche fall to the Calgary Flames, but the point lead would be reduced to zero and it would be a flat out even sprint to the finish line. This IS a playoff game.
As much as fans would love to blame someone else for this game (refs), the Colorado Avalanche 5-2 loss to the Anaheim Ducks sat squarely on the team’s shoulders. It still seems to be a matter of core fundamentals that are costing this team valuable points in a race for 8th place that is quickly becoming unbearably tight.
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