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Can't Never Tried
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What a big baby this guy Mark Kiszla: 303-954-1053 or mkiszla@denverpost.com is 
I think I'll email him and tell him to pull his skirt up and wipe the tears!
He wouldn't last 5 min on this "bored".
I've never read a more bias article then that...crap
I think I'll email him and tell him to pull his skirt up and wipe the tears!
He wouldn't last 5 min on this "bored".
I've never read a more bias article then that...crap
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rbkhockey4life
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mnhockeyrocks
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After reading that truly entertaining article, one might wonder the sportsmanship he teaches his kids.
I can hear it now..."it wasn't your fault Johnny, the refs didn't like your team's jersey colors so they made bad calls causing your team to lose."
I can't tell you how many times I saw the Av's doing the Malache Crunch.... I will enjoy seeing the Boogy man lose it on Laperriere
I can hear it now..."it wasn't your fault Johnny, the refs didn't like your team's jersey colors so they made bad calls causing your team to lose."
I can't tell you how many times I saw the Av's doing the Malache Crunch.... I will enjoy seeing the Boogy man lose it on Laperriere
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My_Kid_Loves_Hockey
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mnhockeyrocks wrote:After reading that truly entertaining article, one might wonder the sportsmanship he teaches his kids.
I can hear it now..."it wasn't your fault Johnny, the refs didn't like your team's jersey colors so they made bad calls causing your team to lose."
I can't tell you how many times I saw the Av's doing the Malache Crunch.... I will enjoy seeing the Boogy man lose it on Laperriere
Are you sure you guys aren't missing the point of this article? If you have ever read his stuff you would realize he is entertaining his readers, much like some of the posters on this board. Considering the response I am guessing this is one he should be proud of..
yes, but he is entertaining his readers by lazily regurgitating the same crap. This is an entirely different Wild team than the one in 2003, but he still manages to use basically the same article.
The Denver Post
April 13, 2003 Sunday 1ST EDITION
Ugly truth is Wild no match for Avs
BYLINE: Mark Kiszla
SECTION: SPORTS; Pg. C-01
LENGTH: 734 words
After watching the hideous Minnesota Wild for two games, you don't know whether to spit or take a shower.
Minnesota, whose red-and-green uniforms must have been inspired by those gauche folks who leave up their Christmas lights all year, ranks No. 1 in the NHL in only one department. This has to be the worst dressed team in hockey.
And the Wild plays even uglier than it looks. This motley crew does not try to win so much as it hopes to frustrate the opposition into losing. Minnesota is as good an argument as any for contracting the playoffs.
After two playoff games, the Avs can barely hide their Wild contempt for this nuisance. And can anybody really blame them?
Colorado defenseman Adam Foote was asked how much difference in talent exists between a higher-seeded team such as the Avs and these gritty little muckers who wipe their snotty noses on Wild sweaters. He replied: 'I could get myself in a lot of trouble if I told you the truth. So I'll just be politically correct. I could get in a lot of trouble if I said what I really wanted to say.'
But Foote, you and I all know the ugly truth. Minnesota does not belong on the same ice as the Avalanche.
After losing the postseason opener, Colorado beat the Wild 3-2 on Saturday afternoon. Order was restored, and 18,007 fans at the Pepsi Center went home happy. It is again safe for Avalanche coach Tony Granato to exhale.
As it turns out, maybe Minnesota goalie Dwayne Roloson is not to be confused with Ken Dryden. Whenever defensemen Willie Mitchell or Filip Kuba tried to rattle Colorado center Peter Forsberg with tactics that would make a pro rasslin' thug blush, the Wild was reduced to the same old cheap tricks that have not worked for years.
The Wild is a hockey team that tries to goad you into doing something stupid. Minnesota lives for the dumb turnover, the odd-man rush, the penalty of frustration and the soft goal.
'I think the main thing about this series is for us not to get frustrated,' Foote said.
Dumb, inexplicable things occur every day in the NHL playoffs. Stuff happens. How else to explain how the defending champion Red Wings have gotten themselves down 2-0 against Anaheim in the opening round? It must be particularly depressing to be a resident of Hockeytown today. Sure, Detroit started its quest for the Cup from a similar hole a year ago. But that's not the recommended route to take.
'It's tough when you lose your first game of the playoffs. So it was real important to win this one. We didn't want to go to Minnesota down 2-0. We got the split. After losing the first game, we couldn't do any better,' Forsberg said.
The hockey postseason is so long and so filled with bruises that it's humanly impossible for any team to be at its best from start to finish. So the key to winning an NHL championship is to somehow avoid eliminating yourself with your own inevitable mistakes, and to find a way to win when you're not at your best. That theory was reinforced Saturday, when the decisive goal was scored by Avalanche journeyman Brian Willsie, who will get no closer to the Hall of Fame than dressing alongside Joe Sakic and Rob Blake in the Colorado room.
The Avalanche stunk in Game 1. Colorado was mediocre at best in Game 2. Minnesota's best hope is to pray the Avs never find their 'A' game.
The Wild is taking their unsightly uniforms and low-rent players back to Minnesota, where somebody actually likes them. Much will be made of how many decibels the natives in the Twin Cities can generate for their mangy underdogs. Big deal.
'The noisier the better,' Sakic said. 'We don't want a quiet building.'
After surviving a self-proclaimed shaky start, in which Colorado's Patrick Roy gave up a goal by Wes Walz on the first shot that Minnesota managed, the Avalanche is relieved but not satisfied with evening this best-of-seven series at a victory apiece.
'If we're satisfied with that, I don't think we're headed in the right direction,' Roy said.
From Tampa Bay to Vancouver, there are nervous puckheads worrying if the postseason of the local team will end in a premature elimination.
But the Avalanche losing a playoff series to Minnesota? C'mon.
Don't be stupid.
D M
Joined: Apr 15
Points: 220 Posted by D M (aka hockey)
at 12:57 AM on Tuesday Apr 15
The Denver Post
April 13, 2003 Sunday 1ST EDITION
Ugly truth is Wild no match for Avs
BYLINE: Mark Kiszla
SECTION: SPORTS; Pg. C-01
LENGTH: 734 words
After watching the hideous Minnesota Wild for two games, you don't know whether to spit or take a shower.
Minnesota, whose red-and-green uniforms must have been inspired by those gauche folks who leave up their Christmas lights all year, ranks No. 1 in the NHL in only one department. This has to be the worst dressed team in hockey.
And the Wild plays even uglier than it looks. This motley crew does not try to win so much as it hopes to frustrate the opposition into losing. Minnesota is as good an argument as any for contracting the playoffs.
After two playoff games, the Avs can barely hide their Wild contempt for this nuisance. And can anybody really blame them?
Colorado defenseman Adam Foote was asked how much difference in talent exists between a higher-seeded team such as the Avs and these gritty little muckers who wipe their snotty noses on Wild sweaters. He replied: 'I could get myself in a lot of trouble if I told you the truth. So I'll just be politically correct. I could get in a lot of trouble if I said what I really wanted to say.'
But Foote, you and I all know the ugly truth. Minnesota does not belong on the same ice as the Avalanche.
After losing the postseason opener, Colorado beat the Wild 3-2 on Saturday afternoon. Order was restored, and 18,007 fans at the Pepsi Center went home happy. It is again safe for Avalanche coach Tony Granato to exhale.
As it turns out, maybe Minnesota goalie Dwayne Roloson is not to be confused with Ken Dryden. Whenever defensemen Willie Mitchell or Filip Kuba tried to rattle Colorado center Peter Forsberg with tactics that would make a pro rasslin' thug blush, the Wild was reduced to the same old cheap tricks that have not worked for years.
The Wild is a hockey team that tries to goad you into doing something stupid. Minnesota lives for the dumb turnover, the odd-man rush, the penalty of frustration and the soft goal.
'I think the main thing about this series is for us not to get frustrated,' Foote said.
Dumb, inexplicable things occur every day in the NHL playoffs. Stuff happens. How else to explain how the defending champion Red Wings have gotten themselves down 2-0 against Anaheim in the opening round? It must be particularly depressing to be a resident of Hockeytown today. Sure, Detroit started its quest for the Cup from a similar hole a year ago. But that's not the recommended route to take.
'It's tough when you lose your first game of the playoffs. So it was real important to win this one. We didn't want to go to Minnesota down 2-0. We got the split. After losing the first game, we couldn't do any better,' Forsberg said.
The hockey postseason is so long and so filled with bruises that it's humanly impossible for any team to be at its best from start to finish. So the key to winning an NHL championship is to somehow avoid eliminating yourself with your own inevitable mistakes, and to find a way to win when you're not at your best. That theory was reinforced Saturday, when the decisive goal was scored by Avalanche journeyman Brian Willsie, who will get no closer to the Hall of Fame than dressing alongside Joe Sakic and Rob Blake in the Colorado room.
The Avalanche stunk in Game 1. Colorado was mediocre at best in Game 2. Minnesota's best hope is to pray the Avs never find their 'A' game.
The Wild is taking their unsightly uniforms and low-rent players back to Minnesota, where somebody actually likes them. Much will be made of how many decibels the natives in the Twin Cities can generate for their mangy underdogs. Big deal.
'The noisier the better,' Sakic said. 'We don't want a quiet building.'
After surviving a self-proclaimed shaky start, in which Colorado's Patrick Roy gave up a goal by Wes Walz on the first shot that Minnesota managed, the Avalanche is relieved but not satisfied with evening this best-of-seven series at a victory apiece.
'If we're satisfied with that, I don't think we're headed in the right direction,' Roy said.
From Tampa Bay to Vancouver, there are nervous puckheads worrying if the postseason of the local team will end in a premature elimination.
But the Avalanche losing a playoff series to Minnesota? C'mon.
Don't be stupid.
D M
Joined: Apr 15
Points: 220 Posted by D M (aka hockey)
at 12:57 AM on Tuesday Apr 15