RW wrote:
Just curious, why?
Well, I certainly didn't like them in their expansion-era days when they trapped and outworked the Avs so many times, but it all culminated in that first round playoff series that saw Andrew Brunette slowly (and I mean SLOWLY) walk his way around a bunch of Avs players and end Patrick Roy's career. I don't think I'm ever gonna completely get over that. Avs blew a 3-1 series lead to add insult to insult, and what's more, I knew it was gonna happen.
Later on, during the Lou-inspired "let's play division rivals 15 times every season" era of the NHL, I had to sit through the painful, dreadful slog that was known as an Avs/Wylde game. This was when Todd Richards was the guy in charge and he had absolute crap to work with, so he went out of his way to produce the most boring brand of hockey the NHL has ever seen. No forechecking, no nothing. Dump-and-chase-and-pray. Sometimes it worked for them. Unfortunately the Avs were in their implosion/rebuild era so they didn't have the skill to make a game of it. I truly, truly hated having to watch those games, and thanks to the NHL I had more than usual to watch.
Nowadays I just don't like them. I don't like their jumped-ship-on-Nashville-and-got-a-shady-back-door-loan-from-other-owners owner, I don't like their GM, I'm not a big fan of their coach, and I really, REALLY don't like a lot of the players on that team (Cooke's knee-on-knee on Tyson Barrie was merely the icing on the cake), especially now that they're good. Niederreiter, Clutterbuck before him, Cooke
, and FUCKS SAKE this team keeps that gutless fucking puke Stephane Veilleux employed, the one guy in professional hockey uglier and less skilled than Cody McLeod.
And while I am not generally one to judge an entire fanbase based on just a handful of idiots (plenty I don't like amongst the Avs) the ones I've encountered have just soured me on that organization and team even more.
And lastly, they managed to completely ruin a perfectly good uniform. I'm enough of a hockey whore to bring myself to root for just about any franchise, even the Canucks...even the DEVILS if I'm drunk enough, but nope, not those fuckwads. Any team but them will do. Any.
I may change my tune down the road someday. Hell, I never thought in a million years during the Matvichuk/Modano/Hatcher/Hitchcock years that I'd ever find myself actually LIKING a Dallas Stars team. But it's likely gonna be a while.