Colorado Avalanche fans — all hockey fans — are the luckiest lot. Not only do we love the best sport, but our true offseason is so short. Right now there might be a trickle of free agency signings left — after all, we only have three goalies between two teams at the moment — but for the most part, the offseason has truly begun.
And it’s the first week of July. Players will probably start showing up to the practice rink the last week of August, so we really only have about seven weeks between that and Free Agency Frenzy of no hockey whatsoever.