Return To The Avalanche (An NHL 2005 Dynasty)

[GoldenJet]

2004-2005 Colorado Avalanche

The Colorado Avalanche looking for the Cup for the third time this year.

Colorado Favorite For Stanley Cup Dominance.

Denver, Colorado: The Colorado Avalanche were possibly the best team in 2001 as they won the Stanley Cup. Yet since then the team has had it's ups and downs.

The Colorado Avalanche may have lost the services of goaltending legend Patrick Roy and all-time leader in points by a defensemen, Raymond Bourque. Yet the additions of Teemu Selanne and Paul Kariya could greatly improve Colorado's offence.

Plus the power of forwards such as Peter Forsberg, Alex Tanguay, Milan Hedjuk and Captain Joe Sakic improve their chances for the Stanley Cup greatness.

On the defensive side of the game, the Colorado Avalanche lost some offensive skill from the retirement of Raymond Bourque, but still boast the skilled defensive Rob Blake and Adam Foote.

In net, he may be no Patrick Roy, but he sure is something, David Aebisher will be the starting goaltender for the Colorado Avalanche.

In shocking news, Colorado fired general manager Pierre Lacroix and replaced him with relatively unknown Jason Skyland. Yet Skyland has been announced to also bring together a group of NHL stars for the 2004 World Cup Of Hockey for Canada.

[GoldenJet]

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Team Canada Opening Night Lines

Scoring Line 1
LW Alex Tanguay
C Joe Sakic (Assitant Captain)
RW Jarome Iginla

Scoring Line 2
LW Paul Kariya
C Joe Thornton
RW Martin St.Louis

Checking Line 3
LW Ryan Smyth
C Mario Lemieux (Captain)
RW Owen Nolan

Scoring Line 4
LW Brenden Shanahan
C Steve Yzerman (Alternate Captain)
RW Joe Nieuwendyk

Defensive Line 1
Scott Niedermayer
Rob Blake

Defensive Line 2
Adam Foote
Chris Pronger

Defensive Line 3
Ed Jovanovski
Al MacInnis

Goaltending
Martin Brodeur
Ed Belfour

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Team America @ Team Canada
Bell Centre
Montreal, Quebec
August 31st, 2004

Canada 5, America 2

1st Period
CAN: Lemieux (1) (Foote, Niedermayer) 6:28
USA: Blake (Weight, Hatcher) 7:31
CAN: Thornton (1) (Lemieux) 13:41
USA:Modano (Unassisted) 16:59

2nd Period
CAN: Blake (1) (Unassisted) 4:27
CAN: Niedermayer (1) (Brodeur) 5:30
CAN: MacInnis (Unassisted) 6:08

3rd Period
NO SCORING

Shots On Goal
CAN 39, USA 38

Face-Offs
CAN 20, USA 15

Power Plays
CAN 1/4, USA 0/7

Record: 1-0-0
Next Game: vs Slovakia

[Clarke_311]

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So you're gonna be the GM of the Avalanche and Team Canada? Sounds interesting I'll follow.

[rdnk]

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This should be interesting. Should be interesting without the cap. Didn't Selanne and Forsberg get injured the year before and essentially kill their chances at getting the cup?

[GoldenJet]

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Well sadly, one of my top 5 players:
1.Sakic
2.Forsberg
3.Selanne
4.Hedjuk
5.Kariya

has already been injured.

[GoldenJet]

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Team Slovakia @ Team Canada

Bell Centre

Montreal, Quebec
September 1st, 2004

Canada 4, Slovakia 0

1st Period
CAN: Iginla (Niedermayer, Sakic) 11:11
CAN: Sakic (Tanguay, Brodeur) 16:58

2nd Period
CAN: Lemieux (Niedermayer) 9:26)
CAN: Iginla (Unassisted) 14:36

3rd Period
No Scoring

Shots On Goal
CAN 37, SLO 18

Face Offs
CAN 23, SLO 7

Power Plays
CAN 0/5, SLO 0/2

Record: 2-0-0
Next Game: vs Russia

[GoldenJet]

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Yzerman Says Slovakia Game was "No Survivors" Type Of Game


Now with the Canadiens leading the way in this tournament, Red Wings captain and Team Canada alternate Captain Steve Yzerman lets out one of their few secrets.

"Defiently, with 57 hits for the Canadiens against Slovakia, it was a game that held no prisoners" he said later after the game was finished.

"To me, it seems Joe (Sakic) and Adam (Foote) who seemed to lead in hitting down the Slovakians" said Jarome Iginla, who scored twice against the Slovakians.

"I'll say so myself, I think that was the most agressive game I played, I was hitting a lot and I felt good that I was increasing my games value by being more agressive" said Joe Sakic upon being asked about his performance.

"The more we hit, the more pumped up we get, with such a high hitting game, we're really pumped going up against a hockey powerhouse like Team Russia, though they haven't been very good all tournament" said Team Canada Captain and Pittsburgh Penguins captain, Mario Lemieux.

Team Russia has to far been 0-2-0 so far, and hope to get things started against Team Canada, who believe to have the advantage going against Sergei Fedorov and co.

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Team Russia @ Team Canada

Air Canada Centre

Toronto, Ontario
September 4th, 2004

Canada 3, Russia 2 in Shootout

1st Period
RUS: Kovalchuk (Fedorov, Kovalev) 5:52
CAN: Nolan (Thornton) 14:34

2nd Period
RUS: Markov (Zhamnov, Gonchar) 5:53
RUS: Fedorov (Kovalchuk, Gonchar) 14:57

3rd Period
CAN: Lemieux (Kariya) 2:27
CAN: St.Louis (Sakic, Niedermayer) 19:44

Shootout
Canada
J.Sakic (Goal)
M.St.Louis (Save)
J.Iginla (Goal)
P.Kariya (Save)
A.Tanguay (Goal)

Russia
S.Fedorov (Save)
P.Datsyuk (Save)
A.Kovalev (Goal)
S.Samsonov (Save)

Shots On Goal
CAN 36, RUS 35

Face-Offs
CAN 14, RUS 11

Power Plays
CAN 0/1, RUS 2/3

Record: 3-0-0
Next Game: vs Russia (Quarter-Finals)

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To Lemieux, Yzerman, Russia game was "hardest game of tournament"


Though Steve Yzerman and Mario Lemieux have both been over-shadowed during this tournament by the marvelous play of Jarome Iginla and Joe Sakic, they are both special ingredients to Canada's success. It seems, though Russia is going into the Quaters without a single win, they are Canada's biggest challenge.

"They scored early and often, and were relentless on us" said winger Paul Kariya, who was previously moved to play on a line with Mario Lemieux.

"As soon as I saw the puck go in off Martin (St.Louis)'s stick, I was just so exstatic that we had a chance to win again" said winger Simon Gagne, who has been a healthy scratch the whole tournament.

"We played a decent game, but compared to Russia's effort, we were mediocre" said assistant captain Joe Sakic.

"I began to wonder how we won that game, it seemed to me that Russia should have won that game" said head coach Pat Quinn.

"We sure as hell were freakin lucky to win that game, we're hoping to be much more prepared to win the game against Russia in the Quarter-finals" said General Manager of the Colorado Avalanche and the head director, Jason Skyland.

[shinderhizzle84]

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nice job with this one, man.

[GoldenJet]

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Seeing as I'm the laziest user on here. I'm skipping the finals and heading straight to the season.

We beat Russia in the Quater finals with a 5-1 win, being led by the powerful Jarome Iginla.

Then we took on the Swedes, where we won 5-2, with a stunning all around effort.

In the final game, Jarome Iginla took over the competetion, scoring a grand total of 4 goals in a 4-2 win over the Czech Republic for the championship.

[GoldenJet]

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Columbus Blue Jackets @ Colorado Avalanche

Pepsi Center

Denver, Colorado
September 26th, 2004 (Pre-Season)

Colorado 5, Columbus 3

1st Period
CBJ:Nash (Vyborny, Marchant) 4:40
COL: Sakic (Selanne, Foote) 6:13
COL: Forsberg (Unassisted) 13:08

2nd Period
CBJ: Nash (Holzinger, Lachance) 14:45

3rd Period
COL: Konowalchuk (Hinote, Liles) 1:48
COL: Forsberg (Hejduk, Blake) 3:39
CBJ: Zherdev (Richardson, Denis) 19:32
COL: Forsberg (Blake, Hejduk) 20:00

Shots On Goal
COL 33, CBJ 19

Face-Offs
COL 10, CBJ 10

Power Plays
CBJ 0/0, COL 0/0

[GoldenJet]

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Just someting to let you guys know.

Colorado's Average Attendance: 15305
Last Season Record: 40-22-13-7
Overall: 86
Impact Players: Joe Sakic, Peter Forsberg, Paul Kariya, Teemu Selanne, Rob Blake, Adam Foote, Alex Tanguay, Milan Hejduk

[GoldenJet]

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Colorado's October Schedule
October 9th vs Dallas
October 14th vs Boston
October 17th @ Los Angeles
October 19th@ St.Louis
October 20th @ Anaheim
October 22nd vs Edmonton
October 24th @ Phoenix
October 27th vs Minnesota
October 29th @ Minnesota
October 31st @ Vancouver