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Originally Posted by pac4eva5
oh, and how do we compare to the yankees? hockey has the salary cap and we play by the rules like every other team. its not like we are throwing billions out while everyone else is stuck under the cap or whatever.
u take foote and forsberg off that list and we have had the better deal in EVERY transaction! ****, the nuggz change players just as much as the avs do. how many players now were on the team 4 years ago??? camby???
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The Salary Cap was just put in place this season. Go back and look at the P/R of the Avs and they were among the top 5% in the league. But buying championships was what hockey was all about, but not anymore. They finally corrected that and now the Avs had to let Forsberg and Foote walk and are now what??? A sixth seed! Then they go and deal David Aebisher, who was keeping the Avs afloat this season for Jose Theodore. Theodore is a former MVP and 2 time Vezla(Sp?) trophy winner, but it was a disloyal move. But in a day of disloyalty what else can be expected? You can't expect franchises to be loyal when players aren't, but hockey was/is supposed to be the sport where athletes are different.
Hockey players are supposed to be regualar guys from Canada who play their guts out for the love of the game and not the paychecks. The strike showed us a different side to that eh?
I see your point about changing players with the Nuggets, but I just didn't appreciate the way the Avs were doing it. But buying low and trading high is smart. Pierre Lacroix is a smart man, but seeing my favorite players get traded away sucked.
I just am not a fan of an organization that has a revolving door policy. I know that sounds hypocritical, but I guess that's just the way it has to sound. The only player the Nuggets are probably loyal to is Carmelo Anthony (for now). We saw that with K-Mart's name being tossed around like a stripper on Lake Minnetonka at the trade deadline.
I guess I'm just not a hockey fan and I'll never claim to be. So if you ever see me cheering on the Avalanche hit me over the head with a 2 x 4
