The Colorado Avalanche are headed back to the postseason, a welcome reward for everything that the fans - and the players, in fairness - went through last season.
Just one year removed from a 48-point season (with insult added to injury when Colorado lost all three lottery spots at the draft, dropping all the way to fourth overall), the team are the underdogs of the year. They had only hoped to shake off last year’s results, with the playoffs nothing but icing - and yet, here they are.
The team will kick off game one against the Nashville Predators on Thursday evening, so Mile High Hockey sat down on the phone with former Avs legend Alex Tanguay, now an analyst with NHL Network.