In what could only be interpreted as foreshadowing of things to come, the Colorado Avalanche triumphed over the Minnesota Wild at the Pepsi Center Saturday night to win the Western Conference Quarter-Finals. Before the series began, we made a friendly wager with our counterparts at the Republican National Convention Committee in Minneapolis-St. Paul on the outcome of the series, offering up Colorado steak to their Minnesota walleye.

A bet is a bet, and we’ll be eagerly checking our mailroom in anticipation of the arrival of that walleye.

A number of my colleagues are rubbing their sleepy eyes today after staying up late last night to see the end of the Colorado Avalanche’s overtime win against the Minnesota Wild at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul. How could we sleep with so much on the line!?

But we’ll take the hint from the Rocky Mountain News and try to keep our bragging in check. This is a friendly competition after all. Congratulations to the Avs on their nail-biter of a win. If the first game of the series was any indication of things to come, we’ll soon be enjoying some fresh walleye from the lakes of Minnesota here in Denver.