Colorado Avalanche Board Fan Biographies

[ChibiPooky]

In case you hadn't figured it out, I'm going to be here all season unless I get my ass banned. So, might as well fill out a bio right?

Name: Jordan
Gender: Male
Age: 32
Occupation: Configuration Manager
Favoite Music Artist(s): Foreigner, Journey, Alan Menken
Favorite TV show: NHL On the Fly
Favorite Book(s) or Author(s): Dune
Favorite Av: Ryan O'Reilly
Favorite Ex-Av: Hendricks
Favorite non-Av: Yzerman
Next or other favorite team: My favorite team is the Caps. Second favorite is the Wings (ban in 5... 4... 3..)
How else is hockey in your life?: I play adult rec league and hold Capitals season tickets.
Favorite Av moment: When Hartley sent Bourque out for the end of Game 7 despite the fact that he was dog tired and had just come off
How and when did you become an Av fan?: Not an Av fan

 

[silverlegacy]

Long time lurker... finally decided to join


Gender: Male.
Age: 26
Occupation: Accountant
Favoite Music Artist(s): Mastodon, Modest Mouse, The Black Keys
Favorite TV show: Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Arrested, The Walking Dead
Favorite Movie: There Will Be Blood
Favorite Book(s) or Author(s): Bukowski
Favorite Av: Stastny and Landeskog (love the way he plays the game)
Favorite Ex-Av: Lappy
Favorite non-Av: Bobby Ryan or Ovie
Next or other favorite team: Tampa Bay
How else is hockey in your life?: Played juniors and had college offers before rupturing my achillies, acl, and mcl rendering me totally useless (I skate worse than Yip now ). Still play beer leagues and pick up once and a while.
Favorite Av moment: 2001 Game 7
Least favorite Av moment: Last year's slide
How and when did you become an Av fan?: 1996, the first year I discovered hockey and the "local" team picked up Roy.

 

[IWantSakicAsMyGM]

Long time lurker... decided it was time to join

Gender: Male.
Age: 33
Occupation: IT
Favoite Music Artist(s): Ray LaMontagne, System of a Down, anything that isn't country music
Favorite TV show: Breaking Bad, Sons of Anarchy, Up All Night
Favorite Movie: Snatch
Favorite Book(s) or Author(s): Steven King
Favorite Av: Stastny
Favorite Ex-Av: Hinote
Favorite non-Av: Ryan Miller
Next or other favorite team: Bruins
How else is hockey in your life?: Grew up in Maine, so hockey is in my blood. If I wasn't old, broken and busy, I'd be playing rec league.
Favorite Av moment: Sakic handing the cup to Bourque
Least favorite Av moment: The Bertuzzi incident. He should be in jail.
How and when did you become an Av fan?: 2000 when Ray Bourque came to the Avs. I grew up a Bruins fan, and was a big Bourque fan. My desire to watch him led to me watching nearly every Avs game he played, and the talent of the team made it hard to not be a fan.

 

[Ivan13]

Welcome guys.

 

[Ncit3]

Name: Kyle
Gender: Male.
Age: 24 (nearly 25)
Occupation: Web Designer/Programmer
Favoite Music Artist(s): Prog/Power Metal. Myrath, Pagan's Mind, Seventh Wonder and many others.
Favorite TV show: The Walking Dead, Doctor Who, Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Favorite Book(s) or Author(s): Dan Abnett (Warhammer 40k stuff), Margaret Atwood (Oryx and Crake), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Brigadier Gerard stories), Peter V. Brett (The Warded Man books).
Favorite Av: Quincey, Duchene, Varlamov.
Favorite Ex-Av: Of Old? Kamensky, Hinote, Ricci and ofc Sakic, Forsberg, Roy and the rest of the big namers.
Favorite non-Av: Goaltenders, a lot of them. Quick, Rinne, Lehtonen.
Next or other favorite team: Rangers or Sabres.
How else is hockey in your life?: Experience playing goaltender, 360. Looking for a beer league around Loveland/Fort Collins.
Favorite Av moment: Cup Finals against the Devils. Such an amazing cup on so many levels. The two epic teams, Ray Bourque, the Devils originally being the Colorado Rockies...and the back and forth nature. It was an amazing series.
Least favorite Av moment: Always enjoyed watching, no matter what. Least favorite would have to be seeing Steve Moore wheeled off the ice after the Bertuzzi suckerpunch.
How and when did you become an Av fan?: Growing up always had an interest in the game, and having a team with such talent and character come here and win the cup their first year in town, got a lifetime fan for sure.

 

[Pirate Deadpool]

Gender: Male
Age: 43
Occupation: Real estate broker
Favoite Music Artist(s): Racer X, Queensryche, RUSH, Lynch Mob, Van Halen, The Cult
Favorite TV show: Terriers, Mad Men, Dark Blue, Person of Interest
Favorite Movie: 13 Assassins
Favorite Book(s) or Author(s): Tom Clancy and Raymond Benson
Favorite Av: 19, 21, 33, 18 (not yip)
Favorite Ex-Av: Teemu
Favorite non-Av: Teemu
Next or other favorite team: Ducks
How else is hockey in your life?: Beer league at local rink. Play right handed and can play all positions but goalie and center.
Favorite Av moment: game 7 2001 cup final
Least favorite Av moment: watching scratcho drive this team into the ground
How and when did you become an Av fan?: A friend from back home who is a huge Roy and canadiens fan came up from hawaii to vegas on vacation and this was just after Roy got traded and convinced me to go on a road trip to see Roy and the avs play.

 

[Thepoolmaster]

I have been reading for a while finally decided to join.

Gender: Male
Age: 19
Occupation: Student (chemical engineering)
Favoite Music Artist(s): White Stripes
Favorite TV show: HIMYM, Modern Family
Favorite Movie: The Departed
Favorite Book(s) or Author(s): Ender's Game
Favorite Av: Duchene
Favorite Ex-Av: Sakic/Forsberg
Favorite non-Av: Mike Richards
Next or other favorite team:
How else is hockey in your life?: Intramural hockey at university
Favorite Av moment: game 7 2001 cup final
Least favorite Av moment: 2002 game 7 losing to the red wings 7-0
How and when did you become an Av fan?: Grew up in Toronto but didn't like the leafs. When I started watching hockey the avs had just been relocated and I was a huge Joe Sakic fan.

 

[fussman]

Finally got approved...

Gender: Male
Age: 28
Occupation: Structural Engineer Technician
Favoite Music Artist(s): Aidonia
Favorite TV show: Modern Family, Dexter, Game of Thrones, Spartacus, Mad Men etc
Favorite Movie: Transformers Trilogy
Favorite Book(s) or Author(s): Bible
Favorite Av: Varlamov
Favorite Ex-Av: Roy
Favorite non-Av: None
Next or other favorite team: Im an Avalanche fan full stop.
How else is hockey in your life?: gaming... started with NHL 96 had titles PS and PC now im on NHL 09 PC
Favorite Av moment: Sakic through Scott Stevens legs over Brodeurs glove to make it 3-0......game 7 2001 cup final
Least favorite Av moment: Anytime we loose. especially to Detroit.
How and when did you become an Av fan?: Watched my first hockey with Avs beating Sabres 3-2 in 96 or 97.
Roy vs Hasick.......coupled with the game i was hooked. Whats weird about
all this is that im in the caribbean full of warm sunshine and crystal water
beaches but no sport excites like hockey. my fav. sport lolol

 

[SignoftheSwine]

Name: Kevin
Gender: Male
Age: 26
Occupation: Full-time student, part-time computer help.
Favoite Music Artist(s): Burial, Bachelors of Science, Liquid Stranger, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Fleetwood Mac, RUSH, Sleeping Giant, Job for a Cowboy
Favorite TV show: South Park, Adventure Time, Squidbillies
Favorite Book(s) or Author(s): Hunter S. Thompson, Richard Feynman, J.R.R Tolkien
Favorite Av: O'Rielly
Favorite Ex-Av: Roy
Favorite non-Av: Quick
Next or other favorite team: Montreal
How else is hockey in your life?: My family in Colorado has been a big fan of hockey. I haven't played the game myself, but I'm looking to change that this year by finding some pick up games here in Vegas.
Favorite Av moment: Not really an Av's moment, but the way Roy left Montreal to come to Colorado.
How and when did you become an Av fan?: I was indoctrinated by family in Colorado. Wasn't a huge fan of sports in general when I was younger, but I was around my family when we won the first cup in 95-96. I didn't go to my first NHL game until mid 2000's, so I was fortunate enough to see Sakic play before he retired. I wish I could have seen Roy! Only the last couple years did I start following the team closely and with more passion for the sport.

 

[AvsFanRCN]

Name: Ryan Formosa
Gender: Male
Age: 20
Occupation: Officer in the Royal Canadian Navy
Favoite Music Artist(s): Jack Johnson
Favorite TV show: Too many, but Game of Thrones has to be up there right now
Favorite Book(s): A Song of Fire and Ice (the series)
Favorite Av: Current, I'd have to say Landeskog, I love how the kid plays. Ever, should be a given for most, but definitely Joe Sakic (I'm not considering him an ex-av, cause he is still working with the organization and, in my opinion, will be an av for life)
Favorite Ex-Av: I would say Tanguay if it weren't for all those years on Calgary, so I'll have to go with Stewart (even though he is not doing well this year) and Shattenkirk. When that trade happened I think I died a little inside. Just getting over it now.
Favorite non-Av: Martin St. Louis and Steve Stamkos
Next or other favorite team: Tampa Bay (I've always liked them, but since my roommate is cousins Martin St. Louis its hard not to cheer for the more), and, considering the team is half avs now, the St. Louis Blues
How else is hockey in your life?: Road hockey on sundays
Favorite Av moment: Any time Patrick Roy dropped the gloves, and when Sakic passed Ray Bourque the cup
How and when did you become an Av fan?: To be honest I don't really remember. I am from a small town near Vancouver, Canada, and I always hated the prospect of being a Canucks fan, so that was out of the question. I think it probably had something to do with Joe Sakic, he is from Burnaby, which is close enough to home, and I can't remember a point in my life where Joe Sakic wasn't my favorite player, and I can't even remember a time where 19 wasn't my favorite number.

 

[A Shiny Zubat]

Been a lurker for YEARS. Made an account over a year ago, and I've decided its time to start posting.

Name: Matthew Taylor
Gender: Male
Age: 23
Occupation: Full-Time Student at UCCS (Geography Major) enjoying the GI Bill and living on your tax dollars.
Favoite Music Artist(s): Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Gaslight Anthem, White Lies, Rammstein, Linkin Park, Foo Fighters...list goes on.
Favorite TV show: MythBusters, Big Bang, HIMYM
Favorite Book(s): Scar Tissue is a good read.
Favorite Av: Paul Stastny. Hoping he can find his 70-80pt game soon.
Favorite Ex Av: Kevin Shattenkirk, we barely knew ye.
Favorite non-Av: Evgeni Malkin/Ilya Kovalchuk
Next or other favorite team: Eh. Don't really have another favorite, I guess I'd root for the Pens if I was forced to pick another team.
How else is hockey in your life?: Used to play in a few leagues before my ATFL tore twice in 5 months.
Favorite Av moment: "Sakic fakes it, takes it, Scores!"
How and when did you become an Av fan?: Grew up in Colorado, probly started to take notice of hockey around '97-'98 when all of a sudden I discovered sports, with all the Broncos fever. I was 10, been a fan since.

 

[BurnabyJoe]

Name: Tom
Gender: Male
Age: 22
Occupation: Full-time student, part-time cook
Favoite Music Artist(s): Beatles, Supertramp, Van Halen, The Dudes, Tom Petty
Favorite TV show: South Park, Community, Walking Dead
Favorite Book(s) or Author(s): The Great Gatsby
Favorite Av: Gabriel Landeskog, Matt Duchene, Erik Johnson
Favorite Ex-Av: Sakic, Roy, Deadmarsh, Drury, Blake, Tanguay
Favorite non-Av: Rick Nash or Tim Thomas
Next or other favorite team: Boston Bruins
How else is hockey in your life?: I play beer league with a bunch of high school buddies as well as floor hockey. I read anything about hockey I can get my hands on, as well as collect jerseys and memorbillia.
Favorite Av moment: Tie- 2001 Game 7 Sakic goal ("fakes it and takes it!") or Craig Anderson's UNREAL shutout to give the Avs a 1-0 win over San Jose in the playoffs a few years ago.
How and when did you become an Av fan?: I used to play NHL 1994 with my Dad on the Super Nintendo all the time and used the Nordiques because I thought their blue/white jerseys looked nicer than Toronto's. I thank my 5 year old self for that decision every day.

 

[643cade]

Name: Andrika
Gender: Female
Age: 24
Location: Aurora, Colorado
Occupation: Stay at home mom/looking for a job.
Favorite Music Artist(s): Oh wow... too many to list, but I'll say Hedley, The Pogues, Rise Against, Theory of A Deadman, Three Days Grace, Apocalyptica, Adelita's Way, Dropkick Murphys, Flogging Molly, Rancid, Atreyu, The Fray, and Murder By Death.
Favorite TV show: NCIS, Law and Order: SVU, Ghost Adventures, First 48, Firefly, Stargate SG-1, Bones, Rescue Me
Favorite Book(s): I read a lot, but I'll say His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman, The Lord of the Rings, Mists of Avalon, Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy, Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy, the Hunger Games trilogy, and the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium) trilogy by Stieg Larsson.
Favorite Av: Current... I'd say Ryan O'Byrne, then a tie between Ryan O'Reilly and Gabriel Landeskog. All time fave Avs though are the Holy Trinity: Foppa, Sakic and Roy.
Favorite Ex-Av: It was Blake until he destroyed Mueller's noggin. Right now, I'd have to go with Liles. Just a classy, awesome guy.
Favorite non-Av: Hmm.... probably Carey Price. He cracks me up.
Next or other favorite team: Boston Bruins (they've been my East team since we got Bourque).
How else is hockey in your life?: Play when I can. Life's been a bit crazy this year though so I haven't been able to play much at all. My kid is hopefully going to start mini-mites in the fall.
Favorite Av moment: The announcement that Denver would have an NHL team; Game 4, Stanley Cup Finals, 1996; 2001 Cup win; seeing Sakic give Bourque the Cup.
Least Favorite Avs Moment: Statue of Liberty, the aftermath of the lockout, Sakic retiring, 2010-2011 season (which I'm not so angry about now that we have Landeskog).
How and when did you become an Av fan?: I was a Denver Grizzlies fan first. The rumors started going that Denver would get an NHL team but I didn't really take it seriously. Grizzlies won the Turner Cup and I was so ecstatic. Then wham, we got the Nordiques. I became an Avs fan the day they became the Avalanche in 1995. Then we lost the Grizzlies, so I wasn't too happy about that, but I'll take the Avs any day.

 

[Granlund2Pulkkinen*]

HEY GUYS!!! Long time lurker, first time poster

Name: Tyler
Gender: Male
Age: 20
Location: Lakewood, Colorado
Occupation: Student
Favorite Music Artist(s): YAYYY ANNOYING STUFF
Favorite TV show: Right now? Game of Thrones but I blew through the first season
Favorite Book(s): Thunder and Lighting - Phil Esposito
Favorite Av: Duchene
Favorite Ex-Av: Forsberg
Favorite non-Av: Tie between Stamkos, Crosby, and Ruutu
Next or other favorite team: Tampa Bay Lightning
How else is hockey in your life?: I play(ed) it.
Favorite Av moment: 2004 Stanley Cup Playoffs vs Dallas/Joe Sakic's 100 point season becoming 2nd oldest
Least Favorite Avs Moment: Playoffs vs Detroit/San José
How and when did you become an Av fan?: Born here, grew up in Chicago, hated Chicago everything, decided to show my native side.

 

[Stories]

hey guys!!! long time lurker, first time poster

lol.

 

[Granlund2Pulkkinen*]

lol.

Hey Stories. Go support the Restaurant my family is a part of http://roti.com/locations/

 

[Mr Serious]

Name: Ryan
Gender: Male
Age: 25
Location: Lone Tree, Colorado
Occupation: Data Analyst
Favorite TV show: Chuck, How I Met Your Mother, Top Gear
Favorite Av: Landeskog
Favorite Ex-Av: Forsberg
Favorite non-Av: Crosby
Next or other favorite team: None. Avs or nothing.
How else is hockey in your life?: Play in a weekly beer league
Favorite Av moment: 2001 Stanley Cup
Least Favorite Avs Moment: Detroit Playoff Series
How and when did you become an Av fan?: 1995

I blame Stories for getting me involved on HF...

 

[member 116861]

HEY GUYS!!! Long time lurker, first time poster

Name: Tyler
Gender: Male
Age: 20
Location: Lakewood, Colorado
Occupation: Student
Favorite Music Artist(s): YAYYY ANNOYING STUFF
Favorite TV show: Right now? Game of Thrones but I blew through the first season
Favorite Book(s): Thunder and Lighting - Phil Esposito
Favorite Av: Duchene
Favorite Ex-Av: Forsberg
Favorite non-Av: Tie between Stamkos, Crosby, and Ruutu
Next or other favorite team: Tampa Bay Lightning
How else is hockey in your life?: I play(ed) it.
Favorite Av moment: 2004 Stanley Cup Playoffs vs Dallas/Joe Sakic's 100 point season becoming 2nd oldest
Least Favorite Avs Moment: Playoffs vs Detroit/San José
How and when did you become an Av fan?: Born here, grew up in Chicago, hated Chicago everything, decided to show my native side.

Welcome to the boards, is it alright if I just call you G2P?

 

[KingSizeKirby]

Welcome to the boards, is it alright if I just call you G2P?

hmmm, why does that nickname sound familiar?

 

[Granlund2Pulkkinen*]

Welcome to the boards, is it alright if I just call you G2P?

That's fine with me I guess.

 

[Stories]

Hey Stories. Go support the Restaurant my family is a part of http://roti.com/locations/

I'll check it out. There's a lot of locations all throughout downtown. One also by GW. Friend lives there, so maybe when I'm in that region of town. Tell them to put a location somewhere on the Red line That's the train I ride every day.

Name: Ryan
Gender: Male
Age: 25
Location: Lone Tree, Colorado
Occupation: Data Analyst
Favorite TV show: Chuck, How I Met Your Mother, Top Gear
Favorite Av: Landeskog
Favorite Ex-Av: Forsberg
Favorite non-Av: Crosby
Next or other favorite team: None. Avs or nothing.
How else is hockey in your life?: Play in a weekly beer league
Favorite Av moment: 2001 Stanley Cup
Least Favorite Avs Moment: Detroit Playoff Series
How and when did you become an Av fan?: 1995

I blame Stories for getting me involved on HF...

You're welcome, buddy

 

[CB Joe]

Hey Stories. Go support the Restaurant my family is a part of http://roti.com/locations/

That looks good. I'm hungry now, do you think they will deliver to eastern Canada?

 

[JWK]

Favorite Av: Current... I'd say Ryan O'Byrne, then a tie between Ryan O'Reilly and Gabriel Landeskog. All time fave Avs though are the Holy Trinity: Foppa, Sakic and Roy.

You rarely see Ryan O'Byrne as someone's favorite player.

 

[Granlund2Pulkkinen*]

That looks good. I'm hungry now, do you think they will deliver to eastern Canada?

knowing our CEO any way to make money and get the name out.

Plans are on the table for a few more Eastern/Western states and I'm pushing for Toronto for the demographic.

 

[Granlund2Pulkkinen*]

I'll check it out. There's a lot of locations all throughout downtown. One also by GW. Friend lives there, so maybe when I'm in that region of town. Tell them to put a location somewhere on the Red line That's the train I ride every day.

Our GW one broke all of the records set by DT Chicago. Roti is literally EXPLODING in DC. Penn Station is our next target but there's a team of real-estate guys just scouring the area.

And Train Stations/near transit is our niche.