Posts Tagged Joe Sacco
Briere, Betts to sit out tomorrow … Sacco should stay, Avs should offer Bryzgalov a deal … Stastny done for year … What to do with Voracek and Brassard
Posted by Mark Easson in NHL News on April 4th, 2011
- Marcus Hayes of the Philadelphia Daily News: Flyers forward Danny Briere will likely sit out tomorrows game with lower body soreness. Blair Betts will be out too. Chris Pronger suffered a setback last week, will be back skating this week. All should be ready for the playoffs.
- Adrian Dater of the Denver Post: Despite being in the bottom of the league after making the playoffs last year, Dater thinks that coach Joe Sacco deserves to hold on to his job for next season. The Avs will have to decide if they want to re-sign UFA Tomas Fleischmann. He may want big money, and the Avs don’t have a positive history when it comes to re-signing their own UFA’s. Dater thinks the Avs should make Ilya Bryzgalov a big offer if he becomes available.
- Terry Frei of the Denver Post: Avalanche forward Paul Stastny is done for the year due to a stress fracture in his leg. Adam Foote missed his 9th straight game, and it’s not known if he’ll be able to get into a game this year before he retires.
- Aaron Portzline of the Columbus Dispatch: The Blue Jackets may be debating this off-season if Derick Brassard and Jake Voracek will ever develop into the top line players they had hoped for. Do they move either of them? Brassard was marginally better this year (45-50 point range) and Voracek was basically the same. GM Scott Howson is likely more willing to trade one of them compared to last year. Voracek may have a higher potential, but he’s a RFA and contract talks “could get sticky.”
Colorado Avalanche Red Hot
Posted by Derek in NHL Entry Draft, NHL News on October 16th, 2009
The Colorado Avalanche are off to a red hot start to the season, a start that most didn’t see coming. Rookie Ryan O’Reilly, drafted 33rd overall in the draft this summer, scored his first NHL goal to give the Avs the win over the Montreal Canadiens, spoiling the Habs home opener before a crowd of 21, 273 at the Bell Center in Montreal. This brought their record to an impressive 5-1-1 with three consecutive wins.
The Avalanche have a good core of young talent including rookies Ryan O’Reilly and Matt Duchene as well as young star Paul Stastney. The veteran’s like Darcy Tucker and captain Adam Foote are providing solid leadership and goaltender Craig Anderson seems to have found his comfort zone in Colorado.
The question is weather they can sustain this caliber of play for the long term, and the laws of averages are certainly against them, but after a dismal season last year new coach Joe Sacco has this team believing in themselves and each other. This will be an interesting story to watch as it develops.
Avalanche hire Sacco
This is an interesting development considering the Avs offered the position along with the GM duties to Patrick Roy recently. The hiring of Sacco as coach and Sherman as GM seems like a short term situation and from what I’m hearing it won’t be a big surprise if Roy comes on next year to fill those positions. We’ll have to wait and see.
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