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.
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Monday, January 18, 2010
Monday, November 30, 2009
Five for Fighting Monday
Last year David Koci was with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Today the Colorado Avalanche will play the Bolts, but the subject of Five for Fighting Monday is the game later in the week. The Pittsburgh Penguins. David Koci fought a member of the Pens 5 times last season. Paul Bissonnette twice in one preseason game and Eric Godard on three different occasions. Here is the bout from the preseason, I chose this one because it got the highest rating at HockeyFights.com. Frankly, looking through Koci's fight log you don't see many wins. I guess you could say he holds his own as often as not and that's about it.
It's odd to see Koci wearing 33, obviously that had to go when he came to Denver, looks like it could be his number of choice since I saw him wearing it on a couple different teams, maybe he wanted to be a goalie?
The Pitts game is the halfway point of the road trip. If the Avs are sucking maybe we will see that old tough guy, Marek "Slugger" Svatos throw down with Sidney Crosby! They are about the same size and it might be pretty entertaining! Ok, let's make it a two-fer today and watch Marek Svatos and Claude Giroux from last Monday. They drop the gloves in what was a surprise for fans and announcers alike! Watch for Chris Stewart at about the 20 second mark bangin' his stick on the boards. And the replay is worth watching because at 57 seconds you can see Svatos nod his head in an invitation to go.
You've got to give Slugger some credit for that one. He had been frustrated and I think it righted his ship for a bit. But obviously he can't (and won't) do that every other game to get himself fired up. Of note is several reports that that was his first fight ever, even according to Svats himself. Nonetheless, HockeyFights.com lists two more back in the day, but no video. Too bad.
Enjoy your Monday, enjoy your week and remember, if the week gets tough...throw down!
-From the Point
It's odd to see Koci wearing 33, obviously that had to go when he came to Denver, looks like it could be his number of choice since I saw him wearing it on a couple different teams, maybe he wanted to be a goalie?
The Pitts game is the halfway point of the road trip. If the Avs are sucking maybe we will see that old tough guy, Marek "Slugger" Svatos throw down with Sidney Crosby! They are about the same size and it might be pretty entertaining! Ok, let's make it a two-fer today and watch Marek Svatos and Claude Giroux from last Monday. They drop the gloves in what was a surprise for fans and announcers alike! Watch for Chris Stewart at about the 20 second mark bangin' his stick on the boards. And the replay is worth watching because at 57 seconds you can see Svatos nod his head in an invitation to go.
You've got to give Slugger some credit for that one. He had been frustrated and I think it righted his ship for a bit. But obviously he can't (and won't) do that every other game to get himself fired up. Of note is several reports that that was his first fight ever, even according to Svats himself. Nonetheless, HockeyFights.com lists two more back in the day, but no video. Too bad.
Enjoy your Monday, enjoy your week and remember, if the week gets tough...throw down!
-From the Point
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