Peter Forsberg, You're My Hero

Twenty-five or thirty games ago, I was ready to write the Avs off for the season. I figured they'd dropped far enough back that it would be damned near impossible for them to crawl back into the upper echelon. How freakin' wrong was I?

Now, I'm not ready to say they're going to take home another Cup, but it is impressive just how good this team has been in the second half of the season. Peter Forsberg, in particular, has been (to help perpetuate a cliche) on fire. The entire team is playing much better defense and Patrick Roy is playing like the St. Patrick of old. It should teach me not to count a team with that much talent out of the running until the games are all played.

If we're really, really lucky, we'll get another match-up with the Detroit Red Wings in the play-offs. Last year was heart breaking for us Colorado fans, and we want a re-match!