Gotta be good to be lucky, lucky to be good, right Hounsy?
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Pokecheque wrote:
Wow, a blast from the past!
Did not know that about Darren Haydar. Reportedly his short stint in the Avalanche organization was an utter disaster.
What do you mean? He was only in 1 game with the Avs and a point per game in the A.
Yeah, I meant the organization as a whole. The then-new Lake Erie Monsters were really struggling their first couple seasons or so, and the Avs at that time didn't have a whole lotta prospects to fill the ranks so they opted to sign some AHL vets to try and make the team more successful. Haydar was their prize acquisition. But reportedly, and take this with a grain of salt because I read it from a so-called "insider" on HF, when Haydar and a couple other vets got passed up for callups to Colorado, he didn't take it well and it more or less split the locker room. Again, NO idea if there's any truth to this, or if he was made promises by the Avs that were not kept, but the relationship didn't go past that one year. The Avs, at that time, were enjoying a resurgent (re: fluke) season, so they probably didn't feel the need to call him up. Either way, their strategy backfired.
I was curious about that too with the Wings. If I had actually gotten to talking to him, I wanted to ask about his time in GR and any experience with the Wings org.
The extent of any talking was at the end of the game I played against him in net where one of our guys, who is a buddy of his, had the puck beside the net and Haydar bearing down on him fast. Our guy deked and slipped it between Haydar's legs and missed the goalie pulled open net. I turned to Haydar behind the net and said "Of all the guys to try and fucking dangle here holding a one-goal lead..." and he just laughed. I asked my teammate after if he was purposely because it was Haydar but he said he didn't even know it was him.