Pierre Lacroix is the master at keeping things quiet. So if you read it, it will NOT happen.

I hate that is that way…but unless they institute a salary cap in the rest of the sports as Football did, then it will remain this way.

Why is Theo questionable? 1 bad season, ha ha, if you followed Roy’s career , you will see that he had a few also and the Hab fans wanted him gone..ie: when the Bruins swept the Habs in 4 straight, it was in the 80′s, do you remember that, ummm, what did Roy do, he came back!!!! We are talking about a Hart winner here!!! A guy who beat out Roy for the venizna!!! What the hell has Tanguay won? Morris is better than brisebois in 1 part of the game and Brisebois is better than Morris in another end, in my opinion, in order for the Avs to get Theo they must take Brisebois, Roy’s rights? well what does the Avs have to lose, maybe he gets 1 year more to play. By the way, Tanguay struggle all year and was rumored to be on the block, did you watch any of the Avs games? The fact is we are talking about a HART winner, mvp of the league, remember what Theo did do your Bruins in the playoffs? maybe that is why you are so bitter about him !!!!! get over it…….

all this being said, he’s a very attractive target for teams seeking a goalie and willing perhaps to risk something for it. the Avs have what some may call a ‘slight’ amount of depth at forward. i can’t see morris getting traded due to the mentioned fact that the Avs have some serious questions concerning their defensive corps. maybe they throw one of their goalie prospects at montreal in return for breezy and theo along with a tanguay.

regardless, theodore is a goalie who severely lowered his market value last season and it is not too far-fetched that he could recover to previous form. now, he may never again be the goalie he was when he completely carried to the Habs to the playoffs and then past boston, but even a slightly lower version of that goalie would have been incredible. his numbers off that season were just filthy, he was a fantasy goalie god that year when you consider his draft position coming in.

but as others have said, Avs fans screaming bloody murder about how, “we have lots of goalie prospects,” are not really thinking clearly. stanley cup contenders don’t really have ‘goalie prospects,’ they have ‘bait.’ and bait gets used to catch bigger fishes, especially when you have a plethora of it which the Avs fans are more than happy to point out.

Aebischer is probably not the answer to a stanley cup run, similar to the fact that realistically a guy like Esche is not in philly. Both of similar resumes, and teams that i don’t think are that far apart in reality when you factor in the defense of philly against the offense of colorado and the fact that philadelphia was a horrible underachiever offensively last year. so i find it somewhat bemusing that people are handing over mr. stanley’s cup without question to the Avs, and look at the flyers and wonder which lump is gonna be between the pipes.

don’t get blinded by the lights folks. pittsburgh lit it up for a long time once they started manuevering goalies around without getting a cup. the avalanche are a team that will score on paper, and almost definitely in reality, but they may be giving up just as many goals as they get. and may struggle in tight defensive games that we see down the stretch and in the playoffs.

so one should expect a trade for a goalie from the franchise that has done easily the BEST job the last few years of aquiring individuals to help them when necessary. but who knows, perhaps one of those guys they got will step up and be the man. goalie’s prove one fact every year, you don’t know what you got until you throw it out there. mebe aebischer is the next turco.

-chris