Well well well, guess this whole “stay competitive” thing turned out to be pretty hard for everybody, now didn’t it?
The Avs are in an unusual spot for themselves right now in that they are just...really, really bad. They have a good portion of their impact players either out on the mend or just indisposed of, their goaltending may as well be a shooter tutor, and while their remaining big names can still be difference makers, the runaway effect of their weak depth combined with their bad goaltending combined with their painful injury luck has them scraping the bottom of the Central Division’s barrel.