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After Stanley Cup glory, what do Avs plan for encore in 2023? “I think we have a team that can do it again.”

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?