Thursday 22 August 2013

A Numbers Game: #9

(This is a series that will run through the offseason that highlights the best, worst, and most irrelevant players to wear each number from 1 to whenever there isn’t enough players that wore a certain number to do this. So…here…we…go…)

One day, as the official Avaholics Unanimous fortune teller has told us, #9 will be retired by the Colorado Avalanche. And by fortune teller, we mean a magic 8 ball I found in a box of kid stuff stashed in my basement. We asked if Tyler Arnason’s #39 would ever be retired and this is the response we got:



I don’t remember the Magic 8 Ball being that intense.

The Best: M-m-m-m-Matt Duchene! Not only is he the best ever to don #9 for the Avs, and will be the best ever to don #9, he has managed to overpass several other candidates that were in no way deserving of the title. Even if Duchene wasn’t very good, we’d still name him the best because he can score sick goals like this:



The Worst: Paul Kariya. See “The Worst” section on our #8 analysis. You weren’t very good Kariya.

Mr. Irrelivant: Brad Larsen. Larsen wore three numbers for the Avs over 5 seasons. That is a lot of numbers. And when he did play for the Avs as a number 9, he didn’t really do much. Not compared to everyone else. So congratulations Brad Larsen, on earning the prestigious honor of being mentioned by our writing staff.

Other #9’s:

Mike Ricci – If Duchene had worn another number, Ricci would have won. Winner of the “sickest flow” award.


Also in the Series:

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