At the Buffalo-Colorado opening faceoff Saturday night, the NHL trading deadline was 89 hours away.
It remained almost certain that one or more Avalanche player was skating in his final home game in the Pepsi Center.
Yes, the possibilities included Matt Duchene and Gabe Landeskog.
Before going any farther, I’m going to step back — in the DeLorean with the flux capacitor — to my stance of recent weeks and re-emphasize it. If Avalanche general manager Joe Sakic ends up making a major deal involving Duchene or Landeskog mainly to show he’s doing something, it almost certainly will be a bad deal.