Five for Fighting Monday - The Gordie Howe Hat Trick

Since I am such a big fan of the Gordie Howe Hat Trick I feel obligated to put the latest such feat up on the blog this morning.  But I'm not happy about it.  And why would any Avs fan be happy about seeing our Avs taking a beat down?  I couldn't find a video of all three aspects of the GHHT so here is just the fight.
If you look closely you will see that besides a half dozen punches that Pyatt delivers, he also takes Stewie's lunch money.



That right there is about how the whole game went.  About how the whole last week has gone for our Colorado Avalanche.
Who would have thought the stupid desert dogs would be spanking the Avs with a 6-2 win at this time of the year? 
Oh, and Wolski has scored twice on the Avs since the trade, but why the hell is he getting some much space out there on the ice?  Both of those goals, Wolski had all day to put that puck right where he wanted.  Terrible!
As you can tell I'm a bit frustrated with the Avs right now.  I think I just knew the game was going to go downhill once I saw Pyatt beat up Stewie.  Pyatt has about one fight a year.  ONE!  And he made Stewie look like a punk.  No one has beat Stewie all year so I'm sure that it affected the Avs mentally to see him get popped like that.
I don't care what other Avs fans say, this might have been a good time for David Koci be out there exacting a little revenge to get the bench fired up. 

-From the Point

Five for Fighting Monday - The Gordie Howe Hat Trick

Whoa!  I missed this last week but the NHL actually had a game with a double Gordie Howe Hat Trick.  One guy on each team.  Of course this causes a skew in the stats in that teams with a Gordie Howe Hat Trick win their games about 75% of the time.  In this case they couldn't both win!

Five for Fighting Monday

Just a quick update on my man-crush on Chris Stewart.  I didn't realize that going back to last season, Stewie has the last Gordie Howe Hat Trick for the Avs, so with the two this season (only two on the team) he has the Avs last three GHHT's in a row.
That ties him with Adam Deadmarsh for most on the Avs.
Here's that fight from last season.  Not a great fight, btw.



Stewie had four fights in the month of January '09.
Here's a good one!




-From the Point

It's Official, I've Got a Man-Crush on Chris Stewart

Two Gordie Howe Hat Tricks so far this season.  Yeah, that's right, I said SO FAR! 

He's the only guy in the league with two GHHT's this season.

It's gettin' to the point where Stewie doesn't have real "good" fights all that often, cause people are SCARED!


BTW-anyone that cheered, silently or otherwise about Koci's broken hand...shame on you.
Some guy in the league gets a head injury...you wouldn't cheer.
You think that it's ok cause it's just his hand?  Take it from me, I broke my thumb in August, its still not right.  Doc says it may never be right.  No matter what you do in life, it helps to have 10 functioning fingers.  So don't cheer.  Don't be that guy.

-From the Point

Five for Fighting Monday - The Gordie Howe Hat Trick

Chris Stewart of my Avs does it up right in this one, good goal, great assist and an amusing, if not great fight.  The fight isn't so great but it was the opponent that was the problem, Stewart was more than willing, garnering an instigator, the 5 for fighting and misconduct.

After taking a run at Matt Duchene, Bryan Allen was probably surprised at the ferocity that came his way.  You get Stewart fired up and the kid is just dangerous!  Allen may have even hurt himself with all the contortions he performed in the effort to get away from Stewie.

The Avs lost this one in the shootout.  Stephen Weiss had a regular hat trick in the game.  Great as the GHHT is, it's still less goals.






Iginla was SO close to the ever-elusive Double Gordie Howe Hat Trick!
Netting two goals, two assists and a fight. 

This is Calgary's second GHHT as a team.  Brian McGrattan and the Flames notched the first of the season, that was a win for the Flames over the Canucks. 




This could be the cheapest GHHT ever. You call that a fight, Nash?
And what's with that cheap goal? 
This season, the team with the GHHT wins more often than not, way to tarnish the GHHT legacy Columbus.
This is Colunbus' second GHHT, the first by Jared Boll.  Boll registered two fights in the (again) losing effort against the Rangers.
Stupid Blue Jackets.

Five for Fighting Monday

You want to show everyone who's boss?
Score a goal, tally a helper and top it off with a fight.
That'll show 'em!
Tonight the Avs and the Oil face off in a battle of the Gordie Howe hat tricks.
Chris Stewart and Zack Stortini are two of the only seven NHL players to register the elusive Gordie Howe hat trick so far this season.
Here's Stewie's GHHT, registered on Dec 2, 2009 against the Panthers. This is a particularly important fight for the Avs as a team. The victim, Bryan Allen, was taking a run at Matt Duchene and Stewart ended up taking the instigator penalty for this fight. But as you can see from the video, Allen wanted no part of this fight. And what a guy like Stewie is doing is sending a message that roughing up the Avs young stars will not be tolerated!

Zack Stortini registered his GHHT on Dec 9th 2009 against the Tampa Bay Lightning. Stortini has duked it out with Wilson for his hit on the team captain. While that matter is probably settled, don't doubt for a minute that if Wilson lays another one of his hard hits on an Oiler, Stortini will be there to take care of things. And as Avs fans were witness to on Saturday, Wilson will back up his physical play.

It's interesting to note that teams with a GHHT have a 4-2-1 record.
Have a great Monday and an even better week.