Now what?
Erik Johnson asked the same question a lot of Avalanche fans did this summer. Once you’ve lifted — and dented — the Stanley Cup, what the heck do you do for an encore?
“Honestly, I was thinking after we won, when some of the dust settled, and I was like, ‘How am I gonna get ready to play this year?’” Johnson, the Avs’ veteran defenseman, recalled with a laugh during a media scrum at the Hilton Inverness in Englewood held to commemorate the start of Colorado’s training camp. “I was just like, ‘How do you do this again?