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Good bye Super Joe. Tonight’s your night. It’s sad to see one of the greatest players to ever play the game leave, especially when he’s been the heart and soul of your team for its entire existence.

You were perhaps the classiest pro sports player ever to play at your caliber. Today as the Avs start what many consider will be our worst season ever it doesn’t matter because it’s all about celebrating all the massive success you’ve brought to one of the top three teams of the last 15 years.

This franchise is coming full circle with the team falling to Paul Stastny. Before the Avs moved to Colorado their greatest player was Paul’s father, Peter Stastny, one of the top three forwards of the 1980’s. In the early 90’s the Nordiques were a failing team and picked up a prospect in Sakic. Peter Stastny had a chance to mentor a young Sakic who would then become the great leader he became. Now Peter’s son is set to take over the team after being mentored by a veteran Sakic.

This cycle is very familiar in other ways. The dominance of the avalanche in the late 90’s and on was due to having two of the best (at time the two best) centers in the game. Now the Avs have the chance to repeat that with Stastny and a rookie Duchene.

While the future may be bright even the optimist sees this season as a rough one for us Avs fans but hopefully not for long.

Good bye Sakic. We’ll all miss you a lot.

I’m gonna be watching TV at 1pm EST today with a sliver of hope that everyone is premature on Sakic’s retirement. The fact remains that Sakic will almost definitely retire and it will be just another blow to the Avs faithful.

When the dust settles this will be a sad day for all of hockey and sports. Sakic was possibly the classiest professional player to ever play at the caliber he played and will end up as one of the best hockey players of all time.

hilker:

tomorrowonlyknows:

what the hell Joe???? maybe coming back this year wasn’t such a great idea, huh? seems like all the forces in the universe are coming together to stop you from playing … IT DIDN’T EVEN SNOW ENOUGH TO REQUIRE A SNOWBLOWER … dummy.

idiot. it’s not like he doesn’t have direct access to the zamboni driver.

Joe, you can still play. Don’t retire because you cant keep your hands out of a snowblower.

Wow, the Avs managed a comeback with the goalie pulled. Joe Sakic scored with 15 seconds left in the game and then scored the deciding goal in the shootout. I must be delirious. I’m hoping this spells out the way things are going to go though to the Cup.

On a related note I managed to nab some cheap lower deck tickets for the home game vs LA. Prolly a 1:3 chance that Forsberg plays in that game. Here’s hoping!