January 17, 2003

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  Detroit makes Colorado see RED
  Curtis Joseph makes one of 36 saves. (AP)		Colorado wanted to atone for a bitter loss in last season’s Western Conference finals. Instead, the Avalanche continued to look like a team that won’t make it back to that point in 2003. Detroit capitalized on a mistake in the third period, answering a Colorado rally with two goals of its own for a 4-2 triumph at the Pepsi Center.

  
  

  “The Colorado Avalanche were seeking redemption for a lopsided loss in last year’s conference finals.

  
  

  What they got was another embarrassing moment at the hands of their biggest rival.”

  
  

  Ouch!!  Yeah…that was pretty much how it went last night.  I heard the chants of thousands of Avalanche fans screaming “Red Wings SUCK” ringing in my ears for hours…while on the ice, the Avs were being subjected to yet another embarrasing loss to the Wings.  Looks like there will be no redemption for last year’s horrible playoff loss to the Wings for the Avs as to date.  They’ll have to wait until the two teams meet again on the 3rd of February to take another stab at it.

  
  

  However, the Avs didn’t play poorly last night by any means…they just made one VERY LARGE mistake…it went like this…

  
  

  “Colorado had already made a line change when Joe Sakic flipped a pass back to Foote, who was being replaced by Greg de Vries. Shanahan had a clear path to the goal, but Foote skated off, thinking he would be called for a penalty if he touched the puck.

  
  

  Shanahan then swooped in and beat Patrick Roy to the far post with 7:18 left.”

  
  

  A costly mistake made by the Avs team captain…poor Joe.  I felt so bad for him.  Now…I will ALWAYS have loyalty to my Wings…ALWAYS…but the Avs played well last night.  However, they needed work on their passing game and their conversions weren’t quite where they should be for this point in the season…and I’ve seen Roy play MUCH better than he did, but other than that they didn’t look bad.

  
  

  I know…y’all are thinking…”who are YOU and what did you do with Maria eh?” LOL

  
  

  Sorry…my roots are showing a bit.  In fact, I was talking to a co-worker of mine this morning (a man that supposedly loves sports…but he knows NOTHING about hockey) and he asked about the game last night.  So I told him a bit and he mentioned that he’d heard about the mistake made by Sakic…so I explained what really had ocurred.  He just looked at me as if I was speaking a foriegn language to him.  Then he yells over to my boss and says, “hey Jerry!  Do you hear Maria talking over here?  She sounds like an expert hockey analist!”…LOL…whatever!

  
  

  Most men give me that response once I start in on hockey…mainly because they don’t expect a woman to be so knowledgeable about a sport.  I just tell them that I grew up watching hockey…it’s always been a part of my life in one way or another…so I should know something by now eh?

  
  

  Jason and I had a blast last night!!  He sat with his nachos in his lap and his beer in front of him listening to me yack with the other fans around us as he attempted to keep up with the plays that were happening on the ice.  It was fun!  I think he realized that his girlfriend knows a little bit about the beloved sport…because all of the guys around us kept asking ME questions…haha.

  
  

  My favorite player plays for the Avalanche…so it was a bit difficult at times for me…yelling for the Wings and then cheering for Forsberg every time he had the puck!  People kept looking at me like “make up your mind would ya!”..haha.  Oh well…Peter played incredible and my Wings still won…so I’m a happy girl!

  
  

  Well…that’s the scoop on the hockey game y’all.

  
  

  Hope that you’ve all had a great week and your weekend is even better!!

  
  

  ~Maria

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