[ComfortEagle]

I wholeheartedly agree with that part about the Red Wings! As a die-hard Avalanche fan from the day they moved to Denver, it is my solemn duty to hate everything about the Wings, from Steve Yzerman right down to the last octopus. Kinda funny that they dug up Chris Osgood from obscurity, maybe we could get Patrick Roy to come back if we end up playing Detroit this year, just so he can go out and beat up Osgood on center ice again.

As for your Preds, sorry about what happened, I was really pulling for them. I agree, Dan Ellis was very impressive, but it seems that his teammates let him down. He had what, 56 saves in game 5 and still lost? That's a shame, and he deserved a better fate that that.

Oh well. If you don't mind seeing an old geezer named Joe Sakic try for another Stanley Cup, we'd be more than happy to take you on as a temporary Avs fan this year...

Yeah, I just saw where they're keeping Osgood in net for the 2nd round too.

Ellis did really good, but I don't know where to place the blame. I don't know if it should be on our defense for allowing so many shots on goal, or if it should be on our offense for not helping him out and scoring some goals.

Personally I think our defense played well, figured out Detroit early in the series, but as in game 6, we just didn't have any offense. Our top scorer was out with a concussion, and Legwand wasn't 100%. In game 4 (I think) we won, but our defensemen were the only ones who scored for us. Last year we had two guys who could make things happen on offense, Sullivan and Kariya could make things happen, but this year we had to out-defend and hope that we could score.

I'm happy that Colorado won, Minnesota was bought halfway through the season by.........Nashville's old owner who tried ditching us to a guy in Canada. It was funny to see him run to a team that would "be more profitable" and still not get any further.