National hockey League

[LU-57]

Tampa Bay - Montreal 1:0 nach Siegen!
Aber klasse Aufholjagd der Canadiens gegen Bosten im Achtelfinale! Nach 1:3, 3mal in Folge gewonnen und nun im Viertelfinale!
MONTREAL ALLEZ!

[Bierdose]

Wurde Aebischer eingesetzt in den ersten beiden Spielen??
Im ersten Spiel wurde er doch nach miserabler Leistung ausgewechselt

[fcltippspiel.ch.vu]

Wurde Aebischer eingesetzt in den ersten beiden Spielen??

Ja.
http://www.blick.ch/PB2G/PB2GA/pb2ga.htm?snr=69590
http://www.blick.ch/PB2G/PB2GA/pb2ga.htm?snr=69678

Im ersten Spiel wurde er doch nach miserabler Leistung ausgewechselt

So ist es.

[Partyanimal]

0-1 Niederlage der Avs und damit ein 0-3 Rückstand in der Serie. Einen Drei-Spiele-Rückstand konnte in der Geschichte der NHL erst zweimal aufgeholt werden. Das wars dann wohl für die Avs...

[Gianni II]

Tut mir Leid für Aebi, aber ich mag es den Sharks gönnen. Mit so einer jungen Mannschaft so erfolgreich zu sein Respekt

Hoffentlich holen sie den Stanley Cup

[Bierdose]

Könnte Aebischer falls, die Avs tatsächlich ausscheiden, für die Zwischenrunde der WM nachnominiert werden??

[Gianni II]

Und für was?

[Bierdose]

Zum Spielen, wohl!!

[Gianni II]

Für was?

[Bierdose]

Um die Schweiz ins WM-Finale zu bringen!!

[Partyanimal]

Für was?

Gerber ist ja schon nicht schlecht und auch gut in Form, aber an Aebischer kommt er trotzdem nicht ran!

[LU-57]

Denke nicht das Aebischer nachnominiert würde, und finde es auch nicht nötig, obwohl Gerber heute nicht so der sichere Rückhalt war!(jedenfalls bis zum Dritten drittel nicht)
Ausserdem hat die Schweiz doch schon 3 Torhüter (Gerber,Bührer,Rüeger) nominiert!? Keine Ahnung ob eine Nachnominierung möglich wäre!

[hijacker]

gerber machte heute im 3. drittel 2-3 big-saves.
ohne ihn hätte die schweiz verloren.

[Bill Shankly]

Aebischer will mit der Nati momentan nichts zu tun haben, nachdem Krüger ihn vor Jahren mal abserviert hatte!

sonst wäre er für mich ganz klar die absoluten NUMBER ONE

[Gianni II]

Für was?

Gerber ist ja schon nicht schlecht und auch gut in Form, aber an Aebischer kommt er trotzdem nicht ran!

Das stimmt so nicht ganz lieber PA, klar siehst Du Aebischer durch die Rosa Colorado Brille, aber Gerber ist gerade so gut wie Aebischer. Gerber wirkt sogar in manchen Situationen cooler als Aebi.

[Partyanimal]

Gut, Aebischer hat natürlich auch nicht einen der momentan besten Torhüter der NHL, der ihm im Weg steht (Giguère), darum hat er auch mehr Spielpraxis erhalten. Ist ja egal, da Aebischer sowieso nicht kommen würde.

[Gianni II]

Das ist so, Aebi und Krueger sind nicht gerade die besten Freunde.

Gerber hatte einfach das Pech, das Giguere letztes Jahr so unmenschlich gespielt hat, sonst hätte er ihn schon lange verdrängen können! Gerber ist statistisch gesehen der beste Backup in der NHL! Der wird nach Buffalo oder Edmonton getradet, da bin ich mir ganz sicher....

[Partyanimal]

Im gestrigen Blick gab es dazu einen interessanten Bericht.

Schon noch "schräg", dass ein Spieler bzw. Torhüter, der persönlich findet, dass er einen höheren Lohn verdient hätte, einen Einspruch beim NHL-Einzelrichter einlegen kann und dieser den Lohn entsprechend dem Marktwert des jeweiligen Spielers oder Torhüters anpassen kann.

Gerbers Marktwert beträgt momentan rund eine Million Schweizer Franken, aber Gerber verdient momentan "nur" CHF 500'000.-. Man nimmt an, wenn Gerber nächstes Jahr den gleichen Vertrag erhält und er einen Einspruch beim Einzelrichter einlegen würde, sein Gehalt auf ungefähr CHF 800'000.- erhöht wird.

[Partyanimal]

Aebi Goes Under The Microscope
(4/22/2004)

By Larry Wigge | NHL.com columnist



Every move he makes is scrutinized. Every misstep or mistake makes headlines. Opinions on David Aebischer go up-and-down faster than the stock market.

Boom or bust? It's a little premature to say, considering that the 26-year-old Aebischer played in only 35 minutes in the playoffs over the past three seasons when he was the backup to living legend Patrick Roy in the Colorado Avalanche net. And four wins in the first round of the playoffs against the Dallas Stars do not a career make.

So, each shift, each game ... all eyes will be on this Fribourg, Switzerland, native.

Make no mistake about it, Aebischer is in a no-win situation. He didn't ask to replace Roy, who was basically the only goaltender the Avalanche knew after moving from Quebec City to Denver for the 1995-96 season. Living legend. Impossible to replace. That is the memory we have of the retired Roy.

But then that's the nature of his position as the last line of defense at the most important time of the year -- the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Now Aebischer, basically untested until this season and already beyond his mid-20s with no pedigree to speak on the world stage, is trying to replace this icon.

"I'm not Patrick Roy ... and anyone who thinks I am is crazy," Aebischer told me a few weeks ago, when he was asked about trying to live up to a living legend in Denver. "Patrick Roy was the greatest goaltender ever. He won four Stanley Cups. What have I won? Nothing."

The fact that Aebischer posted an impressive 2.09 goals-against average (better than all of Roy's 19 NHL seasons except one) and had a 32-19-9 record with four shutouts and a .924 save percentage kind of goes into the record books in pencil, not ink, because it's still to early in his career to pass judgment on this Swiss-born netminder.

Like any goaltender who has never won a Stanley Cup, the jury is out on Aebischer. Like it was for Marty Brodeur before he won the first of three Cups in 1995. Like it was for Ed Belfour before he won his only Cup in 1999. Like it was for Dominik Hasek before he finally won a Cup in 2002.

The difference is that all of those goalies had put up regular season numbers for years. Aebischer's record included only 32 wins in the regular season before this season.

To some it seemed a bit strange that Aebischer scooped up the puck at the end of Game 5 against Dallas and skated with it off the ice. Did he consider this series triumph some sort of vindication or reason to celebrate his individual achievement?

"I didn't look at that as a personal victory or anything like that," Aebischer said. "I wanted it for the team."

With that, Aebischer pointed to the corner of the Avs locker room, where that puck and three others stood near the ceiling to signify that Colorado had now achieved four of the 16 wins they need to win the Stanley Cup.

Next up for Aebischer and the Avalanche are the San Jose Sharks. And you can expect more scrutiny.

"Someone asked me the other day if it meant something to me to have beaten Marty Turco," Aebischer said. "I don't look at it as outplaying the other goalie or anything like that. I don't care. I don't read the newspapers. I try not to watch TV reports on the Avs. To me, it's all a distraction -- and if I really started listening to what was being said or written about me I'd be a basket case by now."



What Aebischer was trying to be oblivious to were outstanding reports of his play in the first two games, both Colorado victories, plus a not-so-kind bit of finger-pointing in his direction after he surrendered a couple of stoppable goals to give the Dallas Stars a chance to win the game in overtime on a goal by little-known Steve Ott.

The fingers were again being pointed in Aebischer's direction early in Game 4, when Dallas defenseman Chris Therien scored to give the Stars a 1-0 lead. But that's where "Dear Abby" began to come up with the right answers, stopping 41 shots en route to a 3-2 victory in double overtime (Aebischer was the only reason Dallas didn't win this game in the first OT).

Aebischer finished the series with a 1.83 goals-against average and .936 save percentage. But those number also are written in pencil, because of the skeptics.

As great as Roy was helping Colorado capture Stanley Cups in 1996 and 2001, he had his share of soft goals and overtime losses along the way. But what made him special was the way he rebounded from bad performances.

I'll never forget watching Roy battle Belfour in 1999 in the Western Conference finals. It was a classic. After one game in which Roy let in a couple of high shots turned goals he considered soft, he was on the ice for 30 minutes after practice with Hall of Fame left winger Michel Goulet -- staying on his knees and encouraging Goulet to do his best to beat him with high shots.



The next game Roy shut out the Stars.

And the game after Aebischer was beaten for a couple of bad goals, he was exceptional -- also against the Stars.

"What David is going through is very hard," nine-time Stanley Cup Coach Scotty Bowman told me after he watched Aebischer a couple of times as a scout for the Detroit Red Wings. "Trying to replace a legend is nearly impossible. Look at Edmonton after Mark Messier left. Look at the Islanders after Al Arbour retired. I was in Montreal when Ken Dryden retired and it took years for the Canadiens to find Roy to replace him.

"You can't possibly put yourself in Aebischer's shoes getting in the net after someone the stature of Patrick Roy."

The good thing about Aebischer is that he studied Roy for three years, watched him prepare for games, handle the media and still have time for himself.

"Patty told me that you wipe the slate clean every day -- forget the wins and the losses the same," Aebischer said in a mid-February trip to St. Louis. "He loved golf and said he considered the first period the first six holes and so on until his 18 holes were done. He said, 'If you remain steady and pick your spots to take a chance, then you will usually wind up at par or better.'

"Patrick looked at every game as a challenge. He told me earlier this season when the Avs retired his number that he kept proving himself over and over again for 19 years. He said, 'You just go out there and prove yourself every night and you'll be OK.' "

Like Roy, Aebischer has rarely played two poor games in a row, the kind of consistency that is so crucial in the playoffs.

It is impossible to skate on the ice as a goalie in Colorado and not feel the presence of Roy's No. 33 in the rafters. But Aebischer says he learned from the best -- and Roy, after all, won a Stanley Cup in his first full season as a starter in the NHL in 1986.



No one should put that kind of pressure on Aebischer. But he will continue to be scrutinized because of being the one attempting to replace the great Patrick Roy. Fair or unfair, David Aebischer says he's unfazed.

"I've been waiting for this opportunity of playing in the playoffs for a long time," he says. "The last two weeks of the season, there was a big 'X' on the calendar I have at home."

Time will only tell if it's David Aebischer's time to play like a legend.

[Gianni II]

Die Avs gewinnen mit 1:0
nach 5min in der ersten Verlängerung. Torschütze Joe Sakic

Aebi mit seinem ersten Playoffshutout 27 Saves

Stand: Colorado - San Jose 1:3