The Colorado Avalanche are flirting with history in unflattering fashion.
Coming out of the all-star break, the 2016-17 Avalanche rank as one of this century’s worst NHL teams based on points percentage.
Thirteen wins and two overtime losses in 46 games has wrought an embarrassingly low PTS% of .304. Even the 2014-15 Sabres, overtly tanking for Connor McDavid/Jack Eichel, cashed in more often (.329).
Patrick Roy quitting as head coach a month before training camp was suboptimal, obviously, but the Avs have failed repeatedly over the past four months.
Let’s dig into the numbers and try to make sense of this mess.