Posts About "Jan Hejda"
Report: Columbus to Give Jan Hejda AHL Tryout
December 4th, 2015 The Columbus Blue Jackets will give former Blue Jacket defenseman Jan Hejda a professional tryout (PTO) with the club's AHL affiliate, the Lake Erie Monsters, according to Aaron Portzline of the Columbus Dispatch. Portzline reports that Hejda is likely to take the tryout and join the team in Cleveland on Sunday. He's the second player...
Camp Blackhawks Week One: This Counselor's Favorites
September 25th, 2015 Chicago Blackhawks training camp is one week old. Despite the fact that it is still early in camp, here are the counselor (okay my) favorites thus far: Goalies No competition here. Crawford and Darling look ready to continue with their success from last year. I watched Darling in person shut out Detroit on Tuesday during his time...
Jan Hejda Invited to Blackhawks Training Camp
September 13th, 2015 Veteran defenseman Jan Hejda has reportedly accepted an invitation to Chicago Blackhawks training camp on a professional tryout contract (PTO), according to The Columbus Dispatch's Aaron Portzline. The 37-year-old blueliner spent the last four seasons playing for the Colorado Avalanche, grabbing a goal and 12 assists through 81 games...
Colorado With an Avalanche of Moves Trying to Improve Their Team
August 18th, 2015 In the 116 days from the 2015 NHL trade deadline to the first round of the 2015 NHL draft, the Colorado Avalanche cut ties with four players. All were ranked in the top 16 of the team's point production last season. Two of these players were involved in trades with eastern conference teams and two veterans were not offered contract...
Avalanche Moving on From Hejda, Briere
June 17th, 2015 The Colorado Avalanche have done a wonderful job over the past six years of establishing what is considered its core of young players. In the 2009 NHL entry draft, the Avalanche selected Matt Duchene, Ryan O'Reilly and Tyson Barrie. All three of these players are now staples in the lineup and are looked upon to produce. A couple...
Grading the Avalanche Defense and Goaltending
May 12th, 2015 View image | gettyimages.com Now that report cards are finished for Colorao's forwards, it's time to wrap it up by grading the Avalanche defense and goaltending. As mentioned in the previous review, the Avs as a whole started the season off in terrible fashion. With a tweak to the defensive system after man on man was clearly...
Jan Maybe Hejda-ing Out of Denver
February 19th, 2015 With less than 30 games remaining in the NHL season it appears the Colorado Avalanche will be ending their season earlier then they wanted to. Currently last in the Central division the Avalanche are 7 points behind the last wild card spot in the west. Trade speculation has surrounded the team all season specifically around young...
Avalanche Sell-Off
January 19th, 2015 It is safe to say at this point that the Avalanche will not be back-to-back Central Division champions. They currently sit sixth with 48 points and 36 games remaining in their season. Nashville, the current division leader, have 64 points and 38 games left to go. The Western Conference wild card race however, is much tighter. As it...
Avalanche Snap Scoreless Streak, Shock Bruins for First Victory
October 13th, 2014 The Colorado Avalanche scored their first goal of the season which ended a 143:28 minute drought on their way to a 2-1 Thanksgiving matinee victory over the Boston Bruins at TD Garden. The victory marked Colorado's first "W" of the season following a pair of back to back shutout losses to the Minnesota Wild, in which the...
Colorado Avalanche Defense: Who's In, Who's Out
October 6th, 2014 This year all eyes are going to be fixed on the Colorado Avalanche defense. It's the one thing many people point to as the team's big weakness. The Avalanche made some moves this offseason, but largely the defensive corps remains very similar. Patrick Roy showed last season that he can get the most out of a group of players. But his...
Colorado Avalanche: Defense Healing Leads to Lineup Choices
December 14th, 2013 All in all, the Colorado Avalanche have been a pretty healthy team. The only issue is the few injuries that the Avalanche have had to deal with have been to key players. Alex Tanguay was the first to go down, and the news doesn't look good for Tanguay at all. Other than a couple of short stints of injuries, the only other two injuries of...
Colorado Avalanche Must Rely On Depth To Continue Success
November 7th, 2013 The Colorado Avalanche continued their hot streak against the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday night, and are now sitting at 12-1-0. The Avalanche have now run up their second six-game win streak of the young season and are riding high. Or they were until they received news that silky-handed forward, Alex Tanguay, will be out at least two...
Colorado Avalanche: Reviewing the Month of October
October 29th, 2013 The Colorado Avalanche finished off their October schedule with a come from behind victory over the Winnipeg Jets, Sunday night, and, just as everybody expected, the Avalanche sit on top of the Central Division with a 10-1-0 record. Wait, what?! This team that the experts predicted to, once again, sit on the bottom of their division has...
